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‘The Facts Are Not Enough’

Can an IPCC report or a star-studded Showtime mini-series change the way people talk and think about
climate change? Katharine Hayhoe urges her fellow climate scientists to ramp up their messaging game.

by Jeff Turrentine @jeffturrentine • April 7, 2014

...Here in Texas I’ve seen a big shift. Up until a couple of years ago, when I would talk to people about climate change, a lot of them would say things like, “Aw, come on, this is just the same thing that my daddy saw, and that his daddy saw, and that his daddy saw.” But now they’re saying: “You know what? This looks different. This feels different than what my daddy and granddaddy saw.”

There was a study done last summer that looked at how climate change is perceived in different states—climate change in the Texas mind, climate change in the Ohio mind, and so on—and what they found, in Texas, was exactly what I’ve been finding. Nowadays, in Texas, seven out of ten people agree that climate is changing.

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We’re stuck in the impasse that we’re in now for multiple reasons. It isn’t a scarcity of scientific facts. And it isn’t even that we think we’re not going to be affected by climate change anymore, because we’re now starting to see the impacts. Part of the problem is that even on those issues where there’s really no scientific debate—whether or not we should be eating healthier foods, for example, or whether we should be getting more exercise—human beings are still pretty bad about doing these things. So first we have to overcome our natural human tendency to just say, “Well, we’ll probably be OK,” until the day arrives when we’re not OK.

http://www.onearth.org/articles/2014/04/katharine-hayhoe-on-the-ipcc-climate-report-showtime-years-of-living-dangerously

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.. one perfect music fit ..

Bridge over Troubled Water - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_over_Troubled_Water

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Climate Change: Years of Living Dangerously

Posted on 5 December 2013 by Rob Painting .. .. links galore ..

James Cameron, the creator and director of many smash hit movies, has teamed up with producer Jerry Weintraub to make a television series on climate change for the Showtime television channel. The series, according to the promotional trailer below, seems to focus of the human story of climate change - how climate has already begun to impact the lives of people all around the world.

In the trailer, James Cameron says:

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"Everybody thinks this is about melting glaciers and polar bears. I think it's a big mistake. This is one hundred per cent a people story"
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I believe he's right. Even though Skeptical Science's core message is about the observational evidence underpinning the science of climate change, facts alone are unlikely to be enough to turn public opinion around. People remember human stories better than facts and figures, so examining the impacts of climate change on people around the world may leave a longer-lasting impression on viewers.

Indeed, if there's one thing that is guaranteed to shift public opinion into combating climate change, it's the warm, clammy, hand of reality intruding upon your own personal life. Whether that's in the form of more frequent and extreme heat waves, more extreme downpours, more intense drought and bushfires, or rising sea levels amplifying current flood risk many times over. Whatever form it takes, climate change is going to, at some point, intrude upon all our lives in a very detrimental way.

Sure, SkS regulars may take issue with the 99% analogy used by James Cameron, rather than the 97% which frequently appears in the scientific literature, including our study, Cook et al (2013). And with the claim by Weintraub that hurricanes are twice as bad as they ever were (they're not). Aside from these slight flaws it is encouraging to see one of the greatest filmakers of our time turn his talents toward communicating the urgency of combating climate change.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Climate-Change-Years-of-Living-Dangerously.html

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Years of Living Dangerously .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Living_Dangerously

.. each concerned, most particularly, Katherine Heyhoe, and others to join her and her husband
now .. warmed by their Christian-scientist blankets, are most important and essential bridges today ..

.. thanks, Sox .. it looks to be a good series ..

See also:

Warming climate drives human conflict
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