Not exact matches
With
Americans» attention more finely tuned to the political
climate under U.S. President Donald Trump, brands that dove headfirst into that
conversation generated the most reaction from viewers during Sunday's Super Bowl.
She visits Paula Dobriansky, the
American government's representative in
climate negotiations but, in a brief and disturbing interview, is unable to engage her in intelligent
conversation.
It's one thing to cave to a wave of naysaying
climate rhetoric and build a new
American energy
conversation on points of agreement rather than clear ideological flash points like global warming.
Likewise,
Americans are two times more likely to say they personally use the term «global warming» in their own
conversations than
climate change.
On This
American Life this weekend, Ira Glass tried to jog the
climate conversation out of the «mire and muck» with an hourlong discussion of impacts and options related to human - driven global warming.
As I read the article, I was reminded of a
conversation I had with Senator John McCain about
climate and
American politics in 2005, while we were taping an interview for the Discovery - Times documentary «Arctic Rush.»
This
conversation is greatly needed because most
Americans are unaware that
climate change poses a danger to their health and the health of their loved ones, and learning this information has been shown to help heighten people's concern about the problem.
Climate Impacts and Resilience: A
Conversation with
American Leaders Saturday, November 11th 14:30 - 15:30 Fiji Dome
While teaching about this I got excited about doing more research and ultimately, at John Hopkins, Simon Nicholson from
American University and I decided that there should be a think tank that would try to ensure that if we do decide to look at
climate geoengineering as a society, that we include all of the stakeholders... That was one of the fears we had, so the purpose of these kind of forums are to ensure that other stakeholders like NGOs and the general public — who would be affected by these technologies — are a part of the
conversation.
At the
American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco, where more than 20,000 earth and
climate scientists have swarmed the city's biggest conference center this week, an air of gallows humor marked many
conversations.
The Forum for
Climate Engineering Assessment works with educators at
American University and elsewhere to develop materials that help guide these important discussions, in ways that open the
conversation to more perspectives.
Likewise,
Americans are twice as likely to say they personally use the term global warming than
climate change in their own
conversations.
The NPS cares for special places saved by the
American people so that all may experience our heritage; they aim to engage park visitors in
conversations about how
climate change is impacting those resources.
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts... Perhaps if there were less certitude about our
climate future, more
Americans would be interested in having a reasoned
conversation about it.