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It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: ‘How to Win a Climate Change Argument’ (Infographic)

Source: ‘This Cheat Sheet Will Make You Win Every Climate Argument’ (Climate Desk via Grist)

*This is a very handy reference for those of us still fighting climate change denial. However, I do have an issue with the infographic’s title, specifically, its use of the word “believe.” Science is not about beliefs, it is about facts. People can choose to accept the facts or they can ignore them, but either way facts remain facts. I think a better (more scientifically robust) title would be ‘Do you accept the facts of climate change?’ 

Related:

• ‘Global temperatures highest in 4,000 Years, Study Says’ (New York Times)

Ideas for the Future | ‘It’s Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to the Future’ (Video)

From SFU Continuing Studies via Youtube:

Although climate change is a scientific and technological issue, it is also fundamentally a moral issue, and it calls for a moral response. 

In the spring of 2012, Kathleen Dean Moore of Oregon State University joined us at SFU Vancouver to deliver a lecture called It’s Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to the Future. 

She addressed several questions: Why has climate-change science elicited such stunning indifference? What calls us to act? How can we respond to the crisis in ways that honor duties of compassion, justice, and respect for human rights? How can we discuss these values across differences? How do we live when we truly understand that we live in complete dependence on an Earth that is interconnected, interdependent, finite, resilient, and heartbreakingly beautiful?

Oromo proverb

The Washington Post’s award winning editorial cartoonist Tom Toles hits the climate-energy-money-politics nail on the head once again. It reminds me of the Upton Sinclair quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary* depends upon his not understanding it.”

(* or election)

Related:

• ‘Oil Donors Fete Romney Days Before Unveiling Energy Plan’ (Businessweek)
• ‘Romney’s Energy Plan Doubles Down On Fossil Fuels’ (NPR)
• ‘Surprise! The GOP’s climate position tracks closely with oil industry donations’ (Grist)

(Source: WaPo via Go Comics)

It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: ‘Experts Through the Ages’

Related:

• Naomi Oreskes: ‘The verdict is in on climate change’ (Los Angeles Times)
• ‘Fear of climate change may finally be trumping ideological denial’ (Huffington Post)

‘What do you think our most powerful renewable resource is?’ 

This is one of 12 editorial cartoons being considered by the Union of Concerned Scientists in their annual calendar contest. You can check them out and vote on your favorite here.

Related:

• Naomi Oreskes: ‘The verdict is in on climate change’ (Los Angeles Times)
• ‘Fear of climate change may finally be trumping ideological denial’ (Huffington Post)

It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: Conservatives & Climate Change

(Source: Post Carbon Institute)

Related:

• ‘The Science of Truthiness: Why Conservatives Deny Global Warming’ (DeSmogBlog)
• Interview: Naomi Oreskes - ‘Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming’ (Point of Inquiry)
• ‘Conservative think tanks step up attacks against Obama’s clean energy strategy’ (The Guardian)

It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: “Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives”

Related:

• ‘Yes, Virginia, Sea Level Really is Rising’ (The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media)

(Source: Climate Crocks)

“Don’t Connect the Dots” 

Related:

• ‘The media covers Kardashians, not climate change’ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• ‘This summer is ‘what global warming looks like, climate scientists say’ (Detroit Free Press)

(Source: Go Comics)

A big barrier to a sustainable future: ‘When scientists predict calamity, politicians plug their ears’ (LA Times)