Climate efforts generally fall into the categories of mitigation and adaptation.
Not exact matches
After my post the other day looking at a Norwegian
effort to use a man walking a leashed dog to illustrate the difference between trend and variation, I got in touch with Olson afresh, both to get his reaction to that animation and talk more
generally about ways to get beyond what he calls «the nerd loop» in
climate communication.
I know that you
generally like to cite Ted and Michael — but I'm still puzzled by your tweeting of their article with the quote «
Efforts to raise public concern about
climate change by linking it to natural disasters will backfire.»
Modern conservation
efforts have gone a long way to mitigate human contributions to these
climate variations since the Industrial revolution, which is
generally marked as the point at which human contribution to
climate change became statistically significant.
In this role, Todd works on implementation of the Paris Agreement and advises the
climate program more
generally on strategic
efforts globally.
Generally, for
climate purpose, the Earth's temperature is regarded as the average temperature of the air at any given moment and much scientific
effort has been put into ascertaining what it is and how the real world arrives at that temperature for the air.
Without that unrelenting
effort, the sound basis for considered scepticism it provided, and the rallying point that
Climate Audit provided (even for
generally non-contributory lurkers such as myself), it seems unlikely that we would have arrived at this moment, which certainly has the feel of an El Alamein or Midway about it.
As Chapter 1 discusses in detail, environmental groups as mostly 501C3 organizations were allowed to spend unlimited sums on public education which includes advertising and communication
efforts advocating
generally for a need for action on
climate change or a general cap on emissions.
It raises the question of why so little
effort,
generally, is made by the scientific community to counter the misinformation, particularly on
climate related issues, that appears in a constant stream in newspapers.