As someone
who talks about climate change a lot, I can vouch for this.
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Overnight a row broke out
about the non-participation of the Lib Dems» energy secretary Chris Huhne,
who is attending
climate change talks in Cancun.
But perhaps it holds a lesson for anyone
who is concerned
about climate change and doesn't know how to
talk to friends and family
who aren't.
In this episode, University of Wisconsin - Madison public health expert Jonathan Patz
talks about the ethical issues raised by
climate change —
who's causing it and
who suffers most from it.
«We recommend for the folks that are
talking with farmers one on one, it's probably a more effective communication strategy to
talk about more extreme weather rather than saying, «Let's take care of anthropogenic
climate change,»» said J. Gordon Arbuckle, a sociology professor with Iowa State University
who helps conduct the survey.
Davies wanted to find out
who knew
about these Climategate emails, which had been timed to coincide with
climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009.
Their
talks underscored that the people
who worry
about vaccinating their children are not necessarily doubters of
climate change or even against GMOs.
Any chance the authors can provide a larger version of their figure, properly referenced, that could be used in digital presentations by those of us
who talk to the public
about climate change?
Frank Shu,
who has done pioneering research in astronomy on planetary disks, the origin of meteorites and the evolution of stars, will
talk about reversing
climate change.
Our findings suggest that there is a
climate change «spiral of silence,» in which even people
who care
about the issue, shy away from discussing it because they so infrequently hear other people
talking about it — reinforcing the spiral.
When I
talk to people
about climate change (and the one time that I gave a
talk on
climate change at a physics colloquium), I always like to emphasize the fact that I am a PhD physicist
who has spent considerable time reading up on the issue, including many of the actual papers in the peer - reviewed journals, but even with that background I still am not arrogant enough to believe that this qualifies me to have a truly independent opinion on the subject.
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.
By continually hammering on
climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people
who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped
talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.
Thanks to excellent guidance from Audubon experts
who briefed me on the impacts of
climate change on birds and their habitats — I felt confident I could
talk about these things, at least in brief.
Our work finds that this awkwardness is especially marked among young people,
who told us that
climate change is «uncool,» «sounds preachy» and is «not something I feel comfortable
talking about - like religion.»
Disagreeing that politics is dominated by a green consensus is the Independent «s Andrew Grice,
who complains that «nobody is
talking about climate change» anymore.
talks about his funny but fact - filled documentary, which follows actual left - wing scientists
who examine the evidence, become
climate change skeptics — and are then ostracized by their peers.»
Orion Magazine: Can people
who care
about the planet's
changing climate find ways to
talk about the crisis that get beyond numbers and politics?
While those
who stand in denial of
climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced
climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist
talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that
climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.
The second is the undecided majority — people
who are open to information, and when we
talk about facts and data on
climate change, that they're wiling to entertain it.
Ezra Levant Show: «Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com
talks about his funny but fact - filled documentary, which follows actual left - wing scientists
who examine the evidence, become
climate change skeptics — and are then ostracized by their peers.»
When I have given
talks about climate change over the years, one of my most common questions is: «Yes, I get all of your information, but how can I respond to my uncle, brother - in - law or friend
who refuses to accept
climate change.»
His
talk, which was recorded and has been posted to the TEDx YouTube page, addressed the idea of
climate scientists as «planetary physicians»
who can provide the public with factual information and useful advice
about human - caused
climate change.
Rud, when I
talk to those of the Progressive Left
who are most concerned
about climate change, and
who want the United States to become the leader in finding ways to reduce carbon emissions, they pretty much go silent when I inform them that the EPA has legal authority under the Clean Air Act and the 2009 Endangerment Finding to do much more in placing limits on carbon emissions than the agency is actually doing.
a former «science writer»
who uses a speleological pseudonym «potholer54 ″ [to] sneeringly deliver a series of petty smears
about artfully - distorted and often inconsequential aspects of my
talks on
climate change.
A new study in Global Environmental
Change suggests that the loudest voices of dissent can affect the way researchers who have separately and repeatedly confirmed the reality of global climate change then talk about their own res
Change suggests that the loudest voices of dissent can affect the way researchers
who have separately and repeatedly confirmed the reality of global
climate change then talk about their own res
change then
talk about their own research.
As someone
who speaks out against those
who deny
climate change — again and again and again and again — I knew exactly what Marshall Shepherd, the 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society, meant the moment he
talked about having to slay the «zombie theories of
climate science.»
ABC Anchor, Dan Harris: There are so many scientists
who disagree with what you're saying, the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change], NASA, NOAA, the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society - we're
talking about scientists all over the globe.
Those
who have steered Obama in the tactical direction of
talking about the need for a clean energy transformation as if this challenge could be addressed without recognizing that it is intertwined with
climate science and the consequences of unchecked
climate change have put things on the wrong track.
During MSNBC's coverage of Hurricane Irma on Saturday, NextGen
Climate founder Tom Steyer argued that politicians who take money from fossil fuel companies and lie about climate change don't want to talk about climate change now because they have «enabled
Climate founder Tom Steyer argued that politicians
who take money from fossil fuel companies and lie
about climate change don't want to talk about climate change now because they have «enabled
climate change don't want to
talk about climate change now because they have «enabled
climate change now because they have «enabled»
I'm not
talking about climate change, yes be mad or not
about that too, but I'm
talking about the global elite
who are ripping us off EVERYDAY.
«How are we ever going to achieve
climate justice,» Gualinga asks, «if we keep on criminalizing those
who are actually fighting
climate change, and not just only
talking about it?»
So we appreciate that someone
who then picks up the phone and sits down to
talk about climate change with people like Pope Francis, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon.
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....»)
Ben Kirtman, a
climate scientist at the University of Miami and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried talking to politicians in Florida about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio, who is a possible presidential contender i
climate scientist at the University of Miami and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried talking to politicians in Florida about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio, who is a possible presidential contender i
Climate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried
talking to politicians in Florida
about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio,
who is a possible presidential contender in 2016.
You have painted them all with a convenient brush for your theory, but that doesn't work with any knowledge of the many individuals in this 97 %
who only want to
talk about the science, and the explanations of past and current
climate and how it can
change in the future.
In other words, Pachauri —
who likes to
talk about social justice and the moral obligations associated with
climate change — is the worst kind of hypocrite.
Pipher gave a 20 - minute TEDx
talk about her book, which you can watch below, but for anyone
who's ever felt discouraged by
climate change, I do highly recommend you pick up the book.
The
talk of impending peak oil and
climate change might give fodder to those
who talk about the dark side of transition towns, but the ultimate message is one of hope — namely that it's time to roll up your sleeves and get engaged with the challenges we face.
«As we
talk about policies that would make cool roofs an important
climate mitigation measure all across the world, we want to know how things
change in a country like India, which has more pollution,» said Surabi Menon, a
climate scientist at Berkeley Lab
who is one of the lead researchers on the project.
These other functions aren't always easy to disentangle from
climate research, Gavin Schmidt,
who directs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, argues here: «Chopping off science just to prevent people from
talking about climate change won't work.
He seems thoughtful and rational but when I
talk to others
who worry
about climate change, I am told his proposals are too risky.
He frames the
talk as a result of a challenge issued on Twitter — he was debating some prominent left - leaning commentators
who said they always shy away from discussing
climate change because they don't know enough
about the complex issue to defend the position that we should be addressing it.