“Blow wind and crack your cheeks”: introducing a month on living with climate change
This month our theme is "living with climate change". We’ll be exploring that from a variety of angles…
climate change messaging
Adam Corner on the “adverts that want to be your friend”
We’re all far too sensible to be influenced by advertising, right?
Deep thought – headlines
•’Sleepwalking to Extinction’: Capitalism and the Destruction of Life and Earth •The story of how greens became energy enemy number one •Collapsing Consciously
Jonathan Chait Is Wrong: The Keystone XL Fight Is An Excellent Strategy And Tactic
I am generally a fan of progressive pundit Jonathan Chait. But his latest New York magazine column, “The Keystone Fight Is a Huge Environmentalist Mistake,” misses the mark.
The Dead Tree That’s Bringing Drought To Life
This 38-foot-tall cedar elm, meant to bring attention to the crippling drought that has severely depleted reservoirs, bled dry important fluvial arteries, and killed more trees than there are people in America, bears a solemn burden.
The climate movement’s pipeline preoccupation
Much of the United States climate movement right now is structured like an archway, with all of its blocks resting on a keystone — President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.
The market for delusion on climate change
If we are, as neo-classical economists claim, “rational individuals” then you would think that all of us would put a lot of weight on the opinion of such a large number of scientists and the rigour of the process that is gone through.
Bigger than that: (The difficulty of) looking at climate change
Sometimes the fate of the Earth boils down to getting one person with modest powers to budge.
Finding a Better Message on The Risks of Climate Change
To overcome polarization on the issue of climate change, Yale professor Dan Kahan says in an interview with e360, scientists and the media need to frame the science in ways that will resonate with the public.
Climate, politics & money – headlines
•Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine •Abbottalypse Now •Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers •VIEWPOINT: Naomi Klein’s Criticism Of Environmental Groups Missed The Mark •The Fossil Fuels War
The rains of July
Last week I relearned an important lesson: life is a force to be reckoned with.
The hockey stick is real!
Evidence that you are doing something right in the climate change debate often comes from the denial reaction. Most of the times, messages on climate change are simply ignored but, occasionally, the reaction is strong; sometimes rabid. Then, you must have hit a sensitive point!