#81) The Climate [Scam] Movement: What’s Missing from this Picture? | The Benshi

Everyone has their opinions on why the climate movement (meaning the efforts expended towards “climate action,” which means the attempts to develop legislation and change behavior to reduce our impacts on the atmosphere which we believe are translating into climate change) has failed. Here is my opinion of one major factor which is based on three sets of experiences.
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CLIMATE NEEDS EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND A “CREDIBLE SOURCE” FOR INFORMATION

But for climate science, the whole controversy came as a mind-boggling surprise throughout the 1990′s. There was no long-term set of experiences for how to deal with climate skeptics, nor how to communicate the science effectively. As a result, in 2006 when Al Gore stepped up to take the lead in public communication of the science, the climate science community enthusiastically handed it all over to him, lock, stock and barrel. I know this. I witnessed it from the start. When I was a professor at U.N.H. in the fall of 1988, I began hearing updates from one of the first members of the IPCC. Over the years he was giddy that Al Gore was rallying to their cause. And in 2006 at the A.G.U. meeting, they had to move Gore’s talk to the largest auditorium and still couldn’t handle the overflow crowd packed in to see him.