Posted on 12/17/2018 1:01:42 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
For all the charts and graphs that scientists use to sound the alarm on climate change, nothing gets people’s attention quite like videos of massive glaciers collapsing into the sea or images of raging wildfires consuming drought-ridden landscapes.
“We know we need science to understand these problems, but we also know that science is not enough to reach people in that visceral way,” says Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Science Juliette Rooney-Varga, director of the university’s Climate Change Initiative. “And we also know from the social science research that it’s that visceral reaction that spurs action.” So this year’s David Lustick Climate Change Teach-In took a cross-disciplinary approach to the issue. Fusing the fields of science and art, it explored how images can not only shape, but also obscure, people’s understanding of climate and environment.
The teach-in was also supported by the student-led Climate Change Coalition, which received $3,000 from the Sustainability Engagement & Enrichment Development (S.E.E.D.) Fund to host an interdisciplinary sustainability lecture series this year. As part of this year’s teach-in, the CCC also hosted a “Sowing SEEDs of Sustainability” event at O’Leary where students learned about sustainability-related research and resources on campus and brainstormed SEED Fund projects for 2019.
The coalition’s new president, sophomore economics major Akbar Abjduljalil, says the teach-in gave students a unique view of the climate change issue.
“I’m around the sciences a lot, so it’s interesting to see the perspective of social science and the humanities,” he says. “It was good for me to cross over to the other side, and I think it was good for others, too.”
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Have the polar bears become extinct yet?
Neither has algore. But, I think it would be awesome if he’d hike his uber rich ass up north and do a study. You know, leave some bacon grease out and see if any bears show up.
Have the polar bears become extinct yet?
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Actually, they’re more numerous than ever. lol
Yep. Keep the following image in mind. It's a snapshot from about 10,000 years ago. My childhood home in upstate New York was under 5,000 feet of solid ice. Our new home in North Idaho was under a couple thousand feet of solid ice. This image is REAL unlike the phony baloney crap these guys are peddling. Remember that this is an eye blink in geologic history -- this was only 5X farther back than when Jesus Christ lived. Men were arriving in North America at this time.
Where did all that ice go? Why did it depart? Hmmm???
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Never mind that the images have nothing to do with the subject, let alone any causal connection. Emotion rules.
If we get another Little Ice Age, fossil fuels will be cool again.
Still no word on how they plan to fix the climate outside of taking our money and giving it to third world dictators so we can use their allotment of carbon?
If climate change was supported by real science, the Right would be the largest proponents for “doing something about it”.
But it’s not, so we aren’t.
If you think you need propaganda to sell science, then maybe it’s not science that you’re actually selling.
This article basically admits that the tactic of the climate-change hysterics is to associate horrible images with their alarmist boogeyman. It’s like “A Clockwork Orange” with Al Gore’s numbing babble taking the place of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”
THIS social one shows only TWO !
Their solution is to extort more money from taxpayers and redistribute it to 3d world countries so they can create more co2 and other things libtards hate.
And buying “carbon credits” accomplishes nothing.
How many of them are ready to give up the fossil fuel powered life style that they take for granted?
NOT A ONE!
A comet broke up and fragments rained down on North America twice about 1 thousand years apart creating two huge flooding events and killing off all the Mega fauna and humans (Clovis people).
Listen to Randal Carlson’s explanation...
I like the way he explains this and like to listen while working.
SS1
P.S. : We’re due for it to happen again but idiots run around screaming about todays “climate change”.
Living in the neo-idiocracy.
Unleash The Kraken !!!
SS1
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