I love how they have to keep coming up with fanciful excuses. Dozens of excuses to explain away the Pause, and lots to explain why people aren’t buying their snake oil
In a Wednesday afternoon lecture at the Yale Law School, Climate change activist George Marshall detailed the psychology of climate change denial.
Marshall serves as the director of the Oxford-based Climate Outreach and Information Network, an Oxford-based organization that works to deliver material about climate change that is accessible to all sectors of the general public. In the lecture, which was attended by about 50 students and faculty, Marshall explored the idea that people understand climate change through socially constructed narratives rather than coming to our own conclusions and taking action on these convictions. He attributed the lack of social emphasis on fighting climate change to the human psychological bias to avoid thinking or talking about uncertainty. (snip)
In order to combat the social narratives and human tendencies that prevent people from taking action against climate change, Marshall said he believes we must frame the issue depending on the audience. Rather than seek collaboration across disputing groups, such as democrats and republicans, advocates should frame climate change in a way that appeals to the values of each group.
“The climate change narrative is largely shaped by the values of liberal environmentalists, but climate change shouldn’t necessarily be environmental,†he said. “The framework should work well for the people who made it.â€
In others word, they are being told to bullshit their way through, to make it up. I do find it interesting that he discusses “socially constructed narratives”, ie, group think and sheeplism, as how to get people to Believe, rather than rational thought and deep learning to make up our own minds.
If you want to convince Skeptics, you must provide hard, factual data and facts. No massaging, no spinning, no changing, no smoothing, no falsifying. No apocalyptic doomsaying. Models that actually work. Of course, at the end of the day, we can easily see that this is not about science, not about the environment, not about saving humanity, nor life on earth, it’s about a hardcore leftist agenda.
Read: Oh, Goody: Another Activist Explains Hotcoldwetdry Denial »
America is engaging more partners and allies than ever to confront the growing threat of climate change before it’s too late. We’re doing our part, and helping developing nations do theirs. At home, we’ve invested in clean energy, cut carbon pollution, and created new jobs in the process. Abroad, our climate assistance now reaches more than 120 nations. And on Tuesday, I called on every nation – developed and developing alike — to join us in this effort for the sake of future generations.
