Helping unlikely sceptics see that climate change is real

HAVE been trying to find ways to communicate about climate change and have recently found some success, but only after I inadvertently created a climate sceptic in my own family.

My mother, like many other Australians, expressed deep concern but also deep confusion about climate change. I explained that a problem is that the main protagonists have either chosen or been forced to enter a winner-takes-all scenario, when in fact climate change is a problem of risk. The future is uncertain, but the strong chance that something harmful could happen warrants considering serious action now.

I also told my mother that any reasonable climate scientist would concede that there is a 10 per cent chance that human-induced climate change is not a problem. Her eyes lit up as she nodded. I felt that I had in a small way made a difference to our broken public sphere.
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Dr Simon Niemeyer from the Australian National University is the lead researcher on the project Climate Change and the Public Sphere, funded by the Australian Research Council.

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