Posted on 10/16/2017 8:36:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
According to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Americans fall into six groups when it comes to climate change: alarmed, concerned, cautious, disengaged, doubtful, and dismissive.
I would add a seventh category: panicked. That’s me. I’m a science journalist, so I understand and accept the problem. But I when I read articles about global warming, my anxiety soars. I have to disengage. I check Facebook for puppy videos.
Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that I couldn’t make it more than halfway through David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth,” published in New York magazine in July. In his 6,600-word cover story, Wallace-Wells offers a series of apocalyptic future scenarios. Here is the gist: The impacts of climate change will be worse than you imagine, and they will come much sooner than you expect. By the time I got to the section describing “a rolling death smog that suffocates millions,” I was having trouble breathing myself. I had to close my computer and take a walk.
Some environmentalists, climate scientists, and writers lambasted the author for painting such an ominous picture of the future. But Wallace-Wells defended his decision to go full doomsday.
Generating worry can lead to behavioral change, according to the research on risk communication.
Journalists can play a crucial role in helping the public understand how to think about climate change and what can be done to reduce the impacts. But the strategies required to reach six (or seven) different climate-change audiences are far from obvious. Doomsday scenarios might work for some people, but not for others. “No one knows how to talk about climate change right now,” wrote Robinson Meyer, an associate editor at The Atlantic, after Wallace-Wells’s story was published. “I don’t have an idea about where to begin, and I write about it professionally.”
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BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Stop exhaling if you believe CO2 is a dangerous pollutant.
One word, Cassandra...Prozac.
When I hear the words “climate denier” I think of what happens to people who are trying to leave Scientology.
#3 I believe that is what melted the mile of ice over most of North America some 10,000 years ago.... : )
So when the Ice Age was going away from “global warming”, did all the whorespondents warn the citizens of Bedrock they’d have to start mowing yards in the future? Unless they paid taxes to their government to make it go away.
By Cassandra Willyard
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To quote Paul Begley: ARE YOU SERIOUS? CASSANDRA? CASSANDRA?
You just can’t make this stuff up!
You need to get a job writing about puppies, Cassandra. It’s more your line.
>>I would add a seventh category: panicked. That’s me. I’m a science journalist, so I understand and accept the problem. But I when I read articles about global warming, my anxiety soars. I have to disengage. I check Facebook for puppy videos.
>>Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that I couldn’t make it more than halfway through David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth,” published in New York magazine in July. In his 6,600-word cover story, Wallace-Wells offers a series of apocalyptic future scenarios. Here is the gist: The impacts of climate change will be worse than you imagine, and they will come much sooner than you expect. By the time I got to the section describing “a rolling death smog that suffocates millions,” I was having trouble breathing myself. I had to close my computer and take a walk.
She “understands and accepts” the problem. She should try being critical and seeking truth instead of accepting a story as truth.
I’m a science journalist, so I understand and accept the problem.
Perpetrating a Fraud long term has always been a problem.
This makes me really worry. Which really makes me worry. Which really makes me worry.
Wait............
Can someone tell me what the temperature at every point on the earth was supposed to be today at noon....cuz I can’t find it anyplace?
Please allow me to convey the reality of climate change to you people without paralyzing your self dealing donors:
You are all nuts.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Well, that means you're first and foremost a journalist and not a scientist, so you most likely have very little actual scientific knowledge and understanding (like the vast majority of your colleagues).
She’s one of the Climate Scientologists......
Please check out the link to follow
So was the Unibomber.
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