{"id":3801,"date":"2010-11-08T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:42:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:42:45","slug":"whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3801","title":{"rendered":"What's Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some recent scholarly research on the relevance of storytelling to the climate change debate gets aired out in a USA Today column<\/a> by Dan Vergano, of which this is the thrust:<\/p>\n

https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/specialisation/ “Scientists, academics, and politicians on the left, do not do stories very well,” says Harvard political scientist Michael Jones<\/a>, who earlier this year led a Policy Studies Journal<\/a> <\/em> report on the use and misuse of narrative in policymaking. “You have to tell a story, though, if you want people to retain information.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://ramedicare.com/frequently-asked-questions/ I discussed<\/a> the implications of Jones’ research in September, but they’re worth mentioning again, not just because Vergano quotes from another related post<\/a> of mine, but because the issue of narrative has become a big part of the climate discussion of late. For example, last week we saw Gavin Schmidt and Judith Curry put forward dueling narratives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s underlying a lot of this back and forth is discontent with a particular story narrative. It was interesting to see how this played out with the recent Scientific American profile<\/a> of Curry. Here was an evenhanded piece exploring a controversy over some thorny issues related to climate change and it was still slammed<\/a> by Joe Romm and Jim Naureckas<\/a> at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). That prompted John Rennie, the former SciAm editor in chief to defend<\/a> the merits of the story. In a\u00a0 follow-up post<\/a> you can see Rennie’s frustration grow as he gets into it with FAIR’s\u00a0 Naureckas (over another story!) in the thread. My favorite comment<\/a>, though, comes from another reader:<\/p>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/small-business-solutions/ Welcome to the circular firing squad that is the progressive environmentalist movement. I’m as climate hawkish as they come and even I’m getting tired of this particular merry go round.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tramadol Online Purchase This echoes what I predicted<\/a> last month:<\/p>\n

Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription Make no mistake: there will be a bloggy blood bath over who gets to shape this [climate] narrative. And it will be largely internecine, between liberal and climate-concerned bloggers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Ultram Online Meanwhile, for obsessive climate watchers, here are some developing character-driven stories that bear watching:<\/p>\n

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/contact/ Will Joe Romm remain the tip of the spear in the climate wars during this wilderness period, or will he be consumed<\/a> by the dark forces and disappointment swirling all around him?<\/p>\n

What happens to Tom Fuller, who appears equally consumed<\/a> by the heart of darkness? Is he really leaving the climate wars? Or has he been dispatched on a secret mission to find Col Kurtz<\/a>?<\/p>\n

https://growthjourneytherapy.com/team/ Then, there’s the Werewolf of https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/financing-options/ London<\/span> Georgia storyline, in which Judith Curry will continue her metamorphosis<\/a>. Will she soon become all but unrecognizable to her former colleagues?<\/p>\n

Get Tramadol Online Obviously, there are many more characters to this epic drama that is now between acts. What are your cliffhangers for some of them? Will Anthony Watts<\/a> fold up shop eventually and become a contestant on Dancing with the Stars? What about my favorite loony skeptic<\/a>? What’s his next move? Didn’t somebody suggest he should get his own Reality show (was that Lucia<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

C’mon folks, give me some material to work with. Where’s this story going?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some recent scholarly research on the relevance of storytelling to the climate change debate gets aired out in a USA Today column by Dan Vergano, of which this is the thrust: “Scientists, academics, and politicians on the left, do not do stories very well,” says Harvard political scientist Michael Jones, who earlier this year led… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2557],"tags":[835,846],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","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=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}