Columbus Zoo workers hint at how to combat climate change through educational talks | The Columbus Dispatch

“Talking about gloom and doom is not going to get you anywhere,” said Shelley, a keeper in the zoo’s North America exhibits. “But I challenge people to make one change when they go home because isn’t it cool that we in Columbus, Ohio, can do something to save the polar bears?”

Whether visitors realize it or not, they are receiving subtle messages about climate change from zoos and aquariums nationwide as they gawk at the lumbering elephants and stand transfixed at the size of the polar bears’ paws.
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[Zookeeper Alicia Shelley]  “I don’t say it in a way like, ‘Wow, we’re destroying the world,’” she said. “I say it as facts, like temperatures are rising much quicker now. The ice is melting quicker. And that’s because of our output of (carbon dioxide).”
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When Warmolts started at the zoo 25 years ago, “the idea of getting messages out wasn’t even there,” he said.

Imaginative feature on Paul Nurse: A Redoubt of Learning Holds Firm | JunkScience.com

Bizarrely Sir Paul conflates scientific skepticism with superstition and taints CAGW skeptics with anti vaxxers and fear of modernity. CAGW hysteria is doing more damage to science and society that even religious zealotry has done and that is desperately dangerous.

Andrew Bolt: Scrap this shameless propaganda outfit now | JunkScience.com

Judith Sloan on the disgracefully misleading propaganda of the Climate Commission’s recently released report, The Critical Decade: International Action on Climate Change:

‘Dictatorship of the Bureaucrats’: Light-Bulb Ban Casts Shadow over EU Democracy | JunkScience.com

[From] Saturday [September 1], it will be illegal to import or produce traditional incandescent light bulbs in EU member states. The move has upset consumers and many environmentalists, but it serves to highlight the EU’s democratic deficiencies.