Conservative parties embracing climate change & action is the only thing that can eliminate climate science deniers. Otherwise, they’ll die denying. Since climate change denial will only disappear with death and major tribal shifts, focus on solutions instead.
For over 30 years, a coalition of fossil fuel companies and their supporters – politicians as well as businesses who gain from maintaining the status quo – have been fighting the scientific community and their environmental supporters in the battle for and against climate change.
While it’s become something of an assumed truth for some that, as the impacts of anthropogenic climate change begin bearing down on the “developed” world in earnest, those who currently deny the existence of climate change will come around. … I remain highly skeptical.
It’s been publicly noted for a long time now that some highly visible television weathercasters count themselves as being “skeptics” on the matter of climate change science. Considering how publicly visible many of these weathercaster personas are, and how much people trust them even if they have no training in climate … [continued]
I finally have enough sanity/time back in my life that I can get back to sharing our 10 most popular stories of the week. (I say this after a night of not sleeping and a couple of half-nights, so maybe take that with a grain of salt.) Anyway, I’m excited, … [continued]
Climate change deniers are getting angrier and angrier because there is less and less ground that they can even moderately stand upon. They are being forced off of multiple positions and the world is ignoring their opinions en masse.
Have you noticed that the voices of climate change disbelievers have become a little quieter lately? Many hope that the Paris Agreement has stilled these counterproductive contrarians. Climate Nexus puts its view nicely: “They lost the battle and the war when the world came together and agreed to transition away from fossil fuels.” Dr. Michael E. Mann, Director … [continued]
In 1985, a group of international superstars gathered together to record an iconic anthem that changed the way that the arts and activism engaged with each other. At the behest of legendary vocalist (and activist) Harry Belafonte, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote a single that was then performed by … [continued]
Google has announced it will terminate its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over the organization’s climate change position.
Originally published on Sustainablog. I have no doubt that climatology is a challenging field in and of itself, but climate scientists – particularly those focused on global warming – also have to deal with consistent attempts to undermine their credibility. They’re just following the “consensus” (which, ya know, didn’t actually result from … [continued]
