We often
talk about climate change in sweeping scientific terms — sea level rise, ocean acidification, feedback loop — but these can be hard for regular people to grasp.
In comparison to messages that defined climate change in terms of either the environment or national security,
talking about climate change as a public health problem generated greater feelings of hope among subjects.
The Obama administration mostly
stopped talking about climate change years ago; when the president talks about the environment, which is rarely, he'll discuss green jobs, or a clean energy future.
Erin Callahan, Climate Collaborative 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Keynote & Discussion Words Matter: How to
Talk About Climate Change so People Will Listen & Act
There are other clichés
for talking about climate change: You can warn that catastrophe looms by talking about tipping points and earths in the balance; you can use military language by talking about «a war on carbon» (related: the sporty «climate on steroids»); you can go retrofuturist with aspirational bridges such as the Apollo project, Sputnik, the Manhattan Project, to name a few.
Unfortunately, many of the scenes with the two of them feel forced, as if a producer off - camera is telling them, «
Now talk about climate change.»
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who talks about climate change and wants their message to stick.
Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to
talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.
In a paper presented at the American Meteorological Society meeting in January, leading climate scientist and IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth
talks about climate change deniers, «climategate», the IPCC assessments, the media, and politicians.
Right now folks from DC to Davos are frantically trying to right the ship of economic growth, and in none of those corridors will you
hear talk about climate change or environmental degradation.
In the last few months there has been a lot
more talk about climate change, all of it escalating in intensity as well as number of articles (non-scientific of course) and harping on a few points such as Ian Plimer's book in Australia, the globe - is - cooling mantra etc..
We are
mostly talking about Climate Change, which is happening, not» Climate Armageddon»... Never read once, not once, Gavin and peers trying to frighten the willies out of anybody.
«We
often talk about climate change and how it will affect us in the future, but the truth is we are already seeing those changes,» said Camille Stevens - Rumann, assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at CSU.
Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, will be there
live talking about climate change and encouraging the audience to do their part to work towards 100 % clean energy.
With media bias polarising the conversation about climate change into «catastrophic» and «sceptical» camps, new research published in Environmental Education Research, exposes just how important the ways in which environmental
educators talk about climate change is in influencing public engagement.
In his 2013 State of the Union address, Pres.
Obama talked about climate change, energy and manufacturing technology innovation, and STEM education — that is, science, technology, engineering and math