{"id":12626,"date":"2014-02-04T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=12626"},"modified":"2014-02-04T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:17:25","slug":"will-sidelining-science-help-advance-climate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=12626","title":{"rendered":"Will Sidelining Science Help Advance the Climate Debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/business-plan/"></a> From the Department of Counterintuitive Thinking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/">https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/</a> The debate about climate change needs to become more political, and less scientific.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/dental-check-up-in-las-vegas/">https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/dental-check-up-in-las-vegas/</a> That is from climate researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehulme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Hulme<\/a>, in a provocative\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/science-cant-settle-what-should-be-done-about-climate-change-22727\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a>\u00a0at <em>The Conversation<\/em>. The above quote makes more sense when you read the sentence that follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/equipo-chile/">https://rgprincipal.com/equipo-chile/</a> Articulating radically different policy options in response to the risks posed by climate change is a good way of reinvigorating democratic politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/">https://growthjourneytherapy.com/methods/</a> I&#8217;m all for this, but you can only have a robust debate about potential solutions if enough people feel strongly that there is a globally significant threat worth discussing and acting on. But the nature of the climate problem&#8211;its complexity and timescale&#8211;make it hard for us to wrap our minds around. For a recent explanation on why that is, read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.time.com\/2013\/10\/21\/why-we-dont-care-about-saving-our-grandchildren-from-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">this piece<\/a> by Bryan Walsh in <em>Time,<\/em> headlined:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/about-us/"></a> Why we don&#8217;t care about saving our grandchildren from climate change<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/salesfacilitation/">http://masterfacilitator.com/salesfacilitation/</a> The biggest stumbling block, as Walsh notes, is that &#8220;climate policy asks the present to sacrifice for the future.&#8221; Even western Europe, which has perhaps the most climate-concerned citizenry, is now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/2014\/01\/23\/europe-submits-iron-law-climate-policy\/#.UvE48igrz18\" target=\"_blank\">less inclined<\/a> to do this.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/atm/">Xanax Buy Without Prescription</a> So context is everything in the climate debate. Hulme argues that we should proceed from this framework:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/mahosot/">Lorazepam Buy Online</a> What matters is not whether the climate is changing (it is); nor whether human actions are to blame (they are, at the very least partly and, quite likely, largely); nor whether future climate change brings additional risks to human or non-human interests (it does)&#8230;in the end, the only question that matters is, what are we going to do about it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://plazadelencuentro.com/livros/"></a> No, what matters equally is just how much we feel threatened (right now) by the risks of climate change. This is what David Ropeik gets into when he <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/risk-reason-and-reality\/lessons-in-risk-perception-from-rising-climate-change-concern\" target=\"_blank\">talks about<\/a> our &#8220;risk perception gap.&#8221; (See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2011\/05\/11\/risk-perception\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-ropeik\/risk-perception_b_880476.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) Several years ago, Andy Revkin <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/18\/an-inconvenient-mind\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">helpfully summarized<\/a> a body of behavioral research:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1741">http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1741</a> a large part of the climate challenge is not out in the world of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/sea-level\/\">eroding glaciers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a id=\"aptureLink_sMOBrwTRlL\" href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/07\/on-the-energy-gap-and-climate-crisis\/\">limited energy choices<\/a>, but inside the human mind.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/secrets-revealed/">https://forgive123.com/secrets-revealed/</a> There\u2019s the \u201c<a id=\"aptureLink_b0Npuhwasu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/04\/science\/earth\/04comm.html\">finite pool of worry<\/a>\u201d (<a id=\"aptureLink_9K2JrJVFwp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cred.columbia.edu\/guide\/images\/illo_finite_pool.gif\">Did we pay the rent this month?<\/a>). There\u2019s \u201csingle action bias\u201d (<a id=\"aptureLink_znSDeJ2Rw2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cred.columbia.edu\/guide\/images\/illo_single_action.gif\">I changed bulbs; all set.<\/a>) There are powerful internal filters (<a id=\"aptureLink_oJ4xoWl4iM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ttf.org\/images\/horse-blinders.jpg\">dare I say blinders?<\/a>) that shape how\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalcognition.net\/projects\/second-national-risk-culture-study.html\">different people see the same body of information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/about/"></a> And of course there\u2019s the hard reality that the risks posed by an unabated rise in greenhouse-gas emissions are still mainly somewhere and someday while our attention, as individuals and communities, is mostly on the here and now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/results/">https://dinoeliadis.com/results/</a> I agree with Hulme when he says that debates about climate change &#8220;will not be settled by scientific facts,&#8221; but rather will turn on &#8220;debates about values and about the forms of political organisation and representation that people believe are desirable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/meet/"></a> This is why <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/2013\/02\/19\/how-to-judge-the-merits-of-the-keystone-pipeline-fight\/#.UvFGqSgrz19\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve said<\/a> numerous times that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/2011\/11\/12\/pipeline-win-breathes-life-into-climate-movement\/#.UvFHOygrz19\" target=\"_blank\">symbolic importance<\/a> of the Keystone pipeline is under-appreciated by many commentators. In of itself this one pipeline isn&#8217;t going to affect the trajectory of climate change, but climate activists have effectively used it as a means to build a larger movement that is very much values-oriented, as in: Should we continue supporting an energy infrastructure that reinforces societal dependence on fossil fuels ?<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/wholesale/"></a> That is an important question to take up in the context of climate change. And it&#8217;s likely more productive to engage it from a values&#8211;rather than a risk&#8211;perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1741">http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1741</a> From the Department of Counterintuitive Thinking: The debate about climate change needs to become more political, and less scientific. That is from climate researcher Mike Hulme, in a provocative\u00a0essay\u00a0at The Conversation. The above quote makes more sense when you read the sentence that follows: Articulating radically different policy options in response to the risks posed&#8230;<span> <a href="https://rgprincipal.com/noticias-peru/">Purchase Valium Online</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=12626\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2556,2557,2561,2721],"tags":[835,845,1120,1268],"class_list":["post-12626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-policy","category-climate-politics","category-climate-science","category-global-warming","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-policy","tag-global-warming","tag-keystone-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}