Over the past few years, I've been fortunate to participate
in discussions about climate change threats and environmental issues with people across private, public, governmental, and research sectors.
My real point in all this, aside from pointing out a Cognitive Dualism, is that I think most thinking observers see that many
discussions about climate change on BOTH SIDES are infused with a desperation to change minds, and are couched in terms that one would not normally associate with dispassionate science.
WASHINGTON —
With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.
Fact: Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin Bacon, KYRA SEDGEWICK, Zach Braff and Emmy Rossum were among the stars who turned out to listen to an
open discussion about climate change at The Darker Side of Green event in New York on Tuesday night (30Mar10).
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Sunday news shows in 2017 largely excluded minorities and women, and completely excluded scientists and climate journalists,
from discussions about climate change, a Media Matters analysis finds.
Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events like this year's droughts and record temperatures have made the lack of
discussion about climate change during the presidential election season, even more jarring.
Big coal's presence throughout this long election season as a major sponsor of the presidential debates stands in striking opposition to the absence of any substantive
political discussions about climate change in the debates themselves.
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Personally, I doubt Dan's «central role,» conclusion, as I think that the tribalism evident among some of the different groups speaking for climate scientists is a reflection of a preexisting dynamic more than that those groups are responsible for creating the landscape where
the discussion about climate change has become one more of who you are than what you know.
Considering all of this, it is incumbent on the Sunday news shows to not only provide their viewers with more substantive climate coverage, but also to include a much broader array of voices in
their discussions about climate change impacts and solutions.
This distinction is central to
any discussion about Climate Change and Global Warming.
In this video, Dr. Shepherd knocks down the «zombie theories» that hinder
our discussions about climate change.
In
discussions about climate change, there's a certain constituency of economists and business leaders who say the market will fix the problem.
This seems to be how
any discussion about climate change ends up.
It's often hard to have
a discussion about the climate change debate without recourse to language about «sides».
Regarding the drought, I would like to save
the discussion about climate change for another day.