The Invisibility of Climate Change « It’s Getting "Hot" In Here

The trick is, we need to discuss the physical impacts of climate change and its solutions in a way that is vivid and emotionally powerful but not exaggerated.

An excellent example is John DeCicco’s (Environmental Defense) description of “clean coal“:

It’s like we’re pushing to invent a better cotton gin as a way to reduce slaveholding instead of just banning slaveholding.

We need to continue to use similar images to build public support and make it climate change an understandable and physical reality for the public. What else have you heard/used like this?

ENVIRONMENTAL REPUBLICAN: Sea Change: 2/3 Believe Global Warming Not Man-Caused

OK, maybe it doesn't say anything about feelings on Al Gore but it does mark a huge change in feelings on global warming at a time that the Obama administration is pushing very expensive environmental policies. This may be the issue that sets people against Obama in large numbers. I have seen it in my business; two years ago I'd ask my classes who believes global warming is man-made and it was nearly unanimous in the afirmative. Not any more.

American Thinker Blog: Global Warming Heretics Increase in Numbers

Interestingly, human beings, themselves, are now having some serious doubts about that “consensus.”

AD: ‘Where’s the Runaway Warming?‘ by Guest: Dennis T. Avery, 4/19/09

Hansen still claims that global warming is occurring rapidly but has been masked by aerosols in the atmosphere. The “lost heat” was supposedly lurking in the oceans. However, 3000 new Argo floats are giving us the most accurate sea temperatures ever recorded, and they say the oceans stopped warming in 2003. If the oceans aren’t warming, neither is the planet.

The ongoing cooling makes it horribly difficult for President Obama to issue his long-promised multi-trillion-dollar tax on energy. Twenty-six Blue Dog Democrats recently voted against letting a carbon cap-and-trade ”tax” be attached to the budget - and thus pass with less than the 60 votes otherwise required. It may now be left to the Environmental Protection Agency to declare CO2 a human health hazard and try to regulate global warming under the Clean Air Act.

We’ll need still-bigger “global warming tea parties” if the EPA issues regulations to control greenhouse emissions. The ballooning cost of such regulations, in both carbon taxes and exported jobs, would dwarf even our huge new federal debt load in the long term.

Dennis T. Avery