I argue that if we take a different approach, like working at the local and regional level and try to facilitate public participation directly in the discussion, then people are more likely to come together,
start talking about climate change, plan, connect, and find common ground.
Which means that as more cultural icons
start talking about climate change, millions of fans and followers do too.
«When
you start talking about climate change and the need for major changes, carbon taxes and lifestyle changes, [conservatives] see this as a threat to capitalism and future prosperity,» said McCright.
If I talk to a buddy on the East coast, I sometimes
start talks about climate change by remembering a great time we had searching for trout in the mountains; on the West coast about the great times we used to have eating raw oysters off the beaches — things our children will never get the chance to experience.
«One of the smartest things the other side did is when they got rid of, they quit talking about, global warming and
started talking about climate change.
Not exact matches
Well, it just so happens people are
starting to
talk about it — and it's exposing a yawning gap between two worldviews affecting the way the world responds to the
climate change challenge — not least within the energy industry itself.
The other issue is when we
talk about doing something
about climate change, doing something means to avoid major sea level rise, we need to reduce emissions globally
starting today... seven percent per year.
I
started talking about the children's health impact, and at the end of the day he came up to me and asked, «So
climate change is really linked to our children's health and all of those chemicals?»
I'm pretty sure this is the scientist I heard on local KQED radio today, who
started to
talk about climate change — he got as far as saying he'd been teaching his students
about climate change including this for years, and the fire problem is going to get much worse — and then the radio host cut him off.
Carrying on in this vein he added: «It's time for us to
start talking about «
climate change» instead of global warming and «conservation» instead of preservation.
I'm in favor of honest
talk — what we really do know
about climate change and where the remaining uncertainties are, why it makes abundant sense (and will save money) to get
started now.
An April column in the Financial Times
started a sentence by saying: «With
climate change off the political agenda...» People aren't
talking about it anymore.
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the Wesleyan University economist
talked about why the world needs to
start taking steps to adapt to
climate change and why strong action must be taken despite uncertainty
about the extent of the warming and its ultimate effects.
But if the biggest sinks
start releasing theirs first, well, this is one of the
Climate Surprises the IPCC and the U.S. National
Climate Change assessment
talk about.
The pilots also confirm what marine scientists have just
started talking about: Ocean waves are becoming bigger and more powerful, and
climate change could be the cause.
First, our hostess stating «(detecting an anthropogenic signal in recent
climate change),» I am not sure when I
started talking about this, but it surely must be THE key issue, and I am so pleased to see this in Judith's comments.
'' It's time for us to
start talking about «
climate change» instead of global warming 1.
After decades of
talking about actions on
climate change, the steps being taken by China and the United States domestically show that both countries are
starting to walk the
talk.
It looks like it might finally be time to
start talking about the big flying elephant in the fight against
climate change.
By over more than 20 times the amount (see Milankovitch cycles — recently improved in Wiki)
starts the
climate relevance: see glacial times...... To the point: I do not
talk about ELLIPTICITY
CHANGES, they stay constant on millenium scale.
Obama
talked about clean energy, then
started to back into global warming and
climate science («I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on
climate change....»)
Is humanity finally and sincerely committed to fighting
climate change, or will 2015 be just another year in which we
talk,
talk,
talk about how we seriously need to
start getting serious.
In 1996 I defined the turning point of the discussion
about climate science (the point where we could actually
start talking about policy) as the date when the Wall Street Journal would acknowledge the indisputable and apparent fact of anthropogenic
climate change; the year in which it would simply be ridiculous to deny it.
Whenever a potential investment project has finances that rely on governments continuing to
talk big but do little
about climate change, the project risks becoming non-viable after all the costs of development are spent if the government subsequently
starts to take
climate change seriously.
But the key point is that we still have several steps in the process before we should
start talking about implementing actions to «mitigate» against human - induced
climate change, as some are already proposing, invoking the «precautionary principle».
The best way that The Guardian could support the work of
Climate Change Scientists is to stop
talking about Phil Jones» informal communications and
start reading the results of his extensive collaborative and personal research.
They
started to
talk about the cholera outbreak situation that Haiti is facing now and also the serious challenge of
climate change in their countries.