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How Seriously Are We Taking Climate Change: Monitoring Climate Change Communication…

Scientists and now most of our politicians know that climate change is real and requires action. Despite the best efforts of the IPCC and Al Gore and their joint award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize global warming still seems to suffer from a continuing credibility shortfall. Those of us who try to get strong messages of urgency and certainty into public arenas, can be dismayed by, for example, our national newspaper, the Australian, running anti-greenhouse stories day after day and Robyn Williams (previously an excellent science journalist and ABC editor) giving a double slot to a ‘should-know-better’ denier on Occam’s Razor. Here I try to explore some of the possible reasons why greenhouse ‘nay-sayers’ still get airtime in the mass media.

The Global Warming Gospel

One of Houghton’s chief disciples is Richard Cizik, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, who recently told a Council on Foreign Relations conference call that climate change is possibly a "love letter" from God to awaken wicked humanity from the consequences of its "greed."

“I sort of think it’s [climate change is] a love letter from God that says that if you’re going to continue to live this way—pride, apathy, and greed—then you’re going to have consequences,” he discerned, prophetically. Enthusiastic about evangelicals embracing the Global Warming agenda, Cizik claimed: “[W]hat’s happening in the religious community is nothing less than a renaissance; a spiritual transformation, I think, of significant proportions that’s cutting across all faiths and denominations.”

Big Freeze Is A Pain For Us All - The Daily Record

Thrusting thoughts of geriatric thermal underwear aside, I blinked smarting, watery eyes and spied the boy's father, a local orthopaedic surgeon, and commented that I guessed that not everyone was as steady on their feet as his son was.

He sighed, puffing smoke-like mists of moisture and concurred, adding that they had been forced to cancel all the planned operations at the hospital so that they could deal with the conveyor belt of fractures that limped, hopped and staggered through the doors of A&E. Not for the first time, we attempted to calculate the cost of medical treatment that would be saved for each additional tonne of salt or grit that councils deigned to spread on pavements.