Why Climate Change is So Hard To Talk About
8:37 | Talking about climate change is hard. Not talking about climate change is easy.
8:37 | Talking about climate change is hard. Not talking about climate change is easy.
29:32 | Studying climate change can take its emotional toll. Some scientists and activists have experienced grief, depression, and anxiety. Some have received death threats.
17:11 | Katharine Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion – and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate.
8:51 | Peter Wadhams explains the risks posed by huge methane emissions that are being caused by arctic ice loss, and we discuss the difficulties and frustrations faced by scientists trying to communicate climate issues to a wider public.
6:40 | Global warming is already upon us, but when was the last time you had a proper chat about it?? ClimateAdam speaks to a climate communication expert (Steve) to take his conversation skills from amazing to brilliant.
4:15 | With Cheryl Heller
23:44 | James Hansen, Pam Peterson, and Philip Duffy join us to discuss how the hesitancy among scientists to express the gravity of our situation is a major block to our understanding and response to climate change.
5:28 | Tyson says lawmakers and the media cherry pick scientific papers to reinforce political ideals on climate change and says it’s irresponsible to create public policy while ignoring the scientific community’s consensus.
8.14 | Facts and data alone won’t inspire people to take action in the fight against global warming. So what will?
50:47 | Multiple species in the same environment may experience the impact of climate change very differently. This must be considered in the strategies we adopt for climate change — and in the way we teach students and the general public.
24:54 | Video talk by John Cook.
3:23 | John Cook introduces the “Fact-Myth-Fallacy” structure for debunking misinformation.
2:29 | Want to Combat Climate Change? Talk about It.
2:12 | Neil deGrasse Tyson and Norman Lear discuss whether or not science has a place in the modern sitcom.
7:54 | John Cook explains the most effective way to debunk misinformation: fight sticky myths with even stickier facts and structure your debunking argument in three parts: fact, then myth, then fallacy.
8:00 | Learn about one of the best methods for making your science sticky – the SUCCES method developed by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. We use this method to respond to climate change myths.
9:39 | John Cook explains the wordview backfire effect using examples from recent history and research. He also talks about ways in which we might combat this phenomenon when it comes to discussions of climate change.
7:07 | The media plays a crucial role in communicating climate science to the public, but the journalistic norm of balance, in the case of climate change, can misinform the public about the science.
6:25 | Yale har identificeret 6 meget forskellige holdninger i befolkningen. Gruppen af klima-fornægtere, er lille. Men de fylder stadig meget i bl.a. FOX-NEWS.
48:36 | Videographer Peter Sinclair has created more than one hundred YouTube videos to show the discoveries of climate science, and how organized climate denial campaigns attempt to mislead the public.
2:43 | Arctic ice cover just reached its lowest point in recorded history.
52:46 | A specialist in the psychology of risk perception, Anthony Leiserowitz knows better than anyone if people are willing to change their behavior to make a difference.
2:40 | Richard Alley address a common argument about climate change: that increasing amounts of carbon dioxide, CO2, are coming from natural sources, like volcanoes.
10:00 | Climate dialog between borders by 9 danish folk high schools.