Comments on: How to talk to a climate change denier https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Another Week of Climate Instability News, August 11, 2013 – A Few Things Ill Considered https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-489004 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:12:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-489004 […] 2013/08/05: GLaden: How to talk to a climate change denier […]

]]> By: Leslie Johnson https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-489003 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:44:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-489003 To talk to so called “deniers”, don’t you actually need to, well, talk to them? And allow them to talk?

]]> By: Martin Vermeer https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-489002 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:20:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-489002 Actually I had an Uncle Bob who didn’t believe human moonflight was possible — as late as the 1960s, even after Kennedy’s announcement. Having read Jules Verne (and lots of rocket stuff) I knew of course better. Life was good July 1969 🙂

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-489001 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:35:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-489001 Yeah, I ‘ve got a little on it here: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/08/06/at-all-scales-global-warming-is-real/

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-489000 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:55:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-489000 NOAA’s latest report _State of the Climate 2012_ has been released:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130806_stateoftheclimate.html

–bks

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-488999 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:42:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-488999 I too did not have that personal journey. I was there from the beginning (though there was a period when I was unsure which direction climate was going to change in as I was faced with the paleo record and the models each tugging in a different direction).

But overall i think his approach is valid and has some good science behind it.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-488998 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:22:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-488998 Hmmm – He’s too kind. He says (about 4:50 in) that they are thinking about, and forming their own views, on climate change. Anyone who actually takes time to, you know actually think, about climate change can not be, in all honesty, a climate denier. They are not forming their own opinions, not at least in any meaningful sense of the word. They are being spoon fed those ideas by the likes of Fox, Limbaugh, and others who exert an enormous influence on anyone to the right of center on the political spectrum. If right wing media (and that is by far the vast majority of the MSM) is their main source of information then their views and opinions are the result of lies and propaganda, not rational thought.

]]> By: Martin Vermeer https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/05/how-to-talk-to-a-climate-change-denier/#comment-488997 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:05:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=17385#comment-488997 How do I tell Uncle Bob that there never was a personal journey for me, that I was born into the destination? As long as I remember (and that’s back to the 1950s) science has been a passion — astronomy and space science especially — and the physics of planetary atmospheres was just a part of it. Read Asimov, and learned that way about Arrhenius and Plass and Keeling and all that. This is old science!

So, I have been expecting what is happening now. Not really worrying yet back then — surely technology would come up with something. A bit of a hurry with that now 😉

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