Emotions and climate change | mydigitalfc.com
A recent poll showed that climate change ranked the last among the public’s list of top policy priorities.
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Given the several problems associated with excessive reliance on emotional appeals, there are a number of suggestions for attracting public attention to climate change. Climate change communicators need to decide what portfolio of risks they want to make the public more aware of and then demonstrate the connection between those risks; for example, the relationship between climate change and disease.
William M. Briggs » Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers
To call a skeptic a “denier” is rank abuse, because as we have seen the word is a stand-in for vile intent. To compare “climate genocide” “deniers” with those who—what exactly? Supported Hitler? Enabled the man? Remember Tomkiewicz implied “deniers” in 1933 were responsible for Hitler—ah, the whole thing is asinine.
Fossil Raindrops and the Faint Young Sun | The Resilient Earth
Good science with interesting results often does not rise to the level of a clarion call for action.
Still, those whose reputations and livelihood depend on government money aimed at “fighting global warming” will become ever more strident in their warnings as we near the release of yet another IPCC report next year. Should you be worried about human CO2 emissions ruining Earth's fragile climate? Let me put it this way—I just bought a new SUV.
Guest | New National Standards Ask Schools to Teach Climate Change
In the standards for middle school, for example, one of the core ideas is that “human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (‘global warming’).” The standards for high school note that “changes in the atmosphere due to human activity have increased carbon dioxide concentrations and thus affect climate.”
Parts of Japan see record-high CO2 levels : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
The average monthly concentration of carbon dioxide has topped 400 parts per million in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, the first time this level has been reached in Japan, raising alarm about greenhouse gases that can cause global warming.
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My mother - a devout Christian - once asked me - an agnostic/atheist - why I don't feel bad knowing that people I discuss religion with might have cause to reject God and therefore go to Hell as a result of something I said to them. I explained that I don't believe in Hell, therefore it is not possible for me to feel bad, because I know they can't go to a place I think is a fictional Western construct. This was completely incomprehensible to her. Likewise, I see CAGW believers labeling disbelievers as "deniers", which is not unlike an atheist being called a heretic, infidel, or blasphemer. It's an attempt to insult the person with the most heinous title the believer can think of, yet it doesn't carry quite the freight for the non-believer. However, the word's association with the Holocaust is offensive. "Denier" is the new "N" word. Ironic that those who preach so vehemently about equality would choose consciously to participate in such a blatant demonstration of hatred.
Moreover, the people who use the "D" word are also the most passionate about their policies that would keep energy and other resources away from those in poverty in third world countries, perpetuating the misery of their short, brutal lives while their alleged "saviors" party hardy in Cancun, Copenhagen, and Rio. Contemporary Environmentalists are some of the most shameworthy people of which I know, yet they try to heap their guilt and shame upon everyone else in the guise of knowing what's best for everyone.
Uh oh ... CO2 levels rising? Is a volcano about to blow?
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