OPEN MEMORANDUM TO: Bret Stephens of The New York Times FROM: Mike Casey, Tigercomm Not to start at the bottom here, but when you don’t know what you’re talking about and still pontificate anyway, you’re just talking out your … well, you can fill in that blank. That seems to be on … [continued]
In the second half of this interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, sits down to continue a conversation with Ed Dolan, economist, writer, and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, about climate change communication and action across political divides.
The musician Meatloaf tweeted recently that he didn’t believe in climate change and that Greta Thunberg was brainwashed. The truth is that it’s not about Meatloaf, it’s not about Greta, it’s not about you or me.
Writing for Canada’s National Post, columnist Lawrence Solomon took fossil fuel allegiance and climate change denial to a new level, one bereft of dignity and intellectual integrity, and supported only by lies, lies, and more lies.
Climate change has serious implications. But that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate a few clever tweets.
When your fellow climate change ‘skeptics’ are tiki-torch Nazis, it must be hard to accept that they are rational about everything else except that.
Global warming is more like 40 times all of the insects in the world flapping their wings in unison for over 100 years than it is like the chaos butterfly.
Climate change ‘skeptics’ have pre-existing biases which tend to make them skeptical. They’ve been supported in that skepticism by decades of misinformation, and psychologically and socially it’s easier to continue to deny rather than accept reality. But there’s hope.
I no longer debate global warming and climate change. When I’m confronted with a denier, I ask how either of us, not being experts in the field, could ever hope to resolve a climate science debate? Nothing gets accomplished and this usually shuts down deniers completely. If they keep going, I ask who benefits if climate change is not occurring? Of course, we know the fossil fuel (FF) industry is the big winner. Individuals in a climate debate, regardless of side, gain very little if anything.
Social media makes a tremendous impact these days on how people understand climate change. Algorithms can help to provide multiple viewpoints to broaden people’s points of view.
