Posted on 10/01/2014 2:54:52 PM PDT by oblomov
Last week’s People's Climate March drew 400,000 people onto the streets of Manhattan and a great deal of international attention to a subject of dire urgency. But some were skeptical about the event’s overall significance. “The march slogan was, ‘to change everything, we need everyone,’ which is telling, because it won’t change everything, because it didn’t include everyone,” wrote David Roberts of Grist. “Specifically, it won’t change American politics because it didn’t include conservatives.” True enough.
If there weren’t such a stark divide between American conservatives and almost everyone else on the question of the existence and importance of climate change — a divide that can approach 40 points on some polling questions — the political situation would be very different. So if any progress on climate change is going to be made through the American political system — apart from executive orders by Democratic presidents — it is going to have to somehow involve convincing a lot of conservatives that yes, climate change is a threat to civilization.
How do you do that? The answer has more to do with psychology than politics.
The practice of tailoring a political message to a particular group is commonplace, of course. But the climate activist community has broadly failed to understand just how differently conservatives and liberals see the world on certain issues, and, as a result, just how radically different messages targeting conservatives should look.
Related Stories How to Win Your Next Political Argument Awareness Is Overrated “Although climate scientists update, appropriately, their models after ten years of evidence, climate-science communicators haven’t,” said Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale who studies how people respond to information challenging their beliefs. Luckily, social and political psychologists are on the case.
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Simple solution. We need to ban nickel and iron.
Liberals don’t seem to be moved by innocent people getting beat up by hoodlums or beheaded by terrorists. If anything they launch witch hunts against the innocent and deny islamofascist terrorism.
My nomination for the stupidest post of all time:
According to Climate Change ‘experts’ we were supposed to never see snow again! It would just be a distant memory - snowmen and snowball fights - things of the distant past! Ask people about last winter! LOL
The practice of tailoring a political message to a particular group is commonplace, of course. = Ask Peggy Joseph about that. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage or putting gas in my car, we have Obama now!
She sings a different tune now!!!!!!!!! HOPE & CHANGE just didn’t work out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been saying that for years, they must think we are stupid!
I think my Chemical Engineer husband and my Geological Sciences - Scientist/HydroGeologist are BRILLIANT!
Other plants have global warming spells, too. Thanks for your info! Now I understand why....
Houston Chronicle has a weather section, a whole page, daily. I cut it out and keep it. I see no evidence temperature rising. These records only go back to 1890, hardly the beginning of the earth! But they give record highs/lows, and normal highs/lows, and yesterday’s highs/lows. A lot of the record temps were in the 1890s. Now I see more than one reason for that...
Like WHAT kind of thermometers did they use in 1890s, certainly NOT digital.
Where were the thermometers stationed, are they still in same places?
How accurate were they?
I can not chart rising temperatures rising and I have been keeping these records for many YEARS.
BTW I live on Texas Gulf Coast since 1973, with just a few excursions to live in California - temporary relocations...
We have the same old weather patterns here that we had in 1973. Snows about once every 15 years, a foot or so. Rest of the time, no snow, but we do get a lot of temps in the 20s in the winter.
We have had to evacuate for hurricanes four times since 1973. Never had any damage to our house or trees or garage. Hurricane Ike was really bad in Galveston and between here and Houston, but didn’t knock a single shingle off our house....
You said....
suppressing dissent in the old Soviet Union, so it’s no surprise that this methodology would be embraced in an obamanation to silence critics of global warming.
I was just thinking that!
Yes, mean and nuts - and hypocrites! These are folks who don’t really care that much about the environment, but are looking for something to sustain their anger and craziness. Just look at the trash they leave behind at any given liberal gathering. This is all anyone needs to know.
I agree; environmentalism under any of its various names is simply post-Christian paganism. It permits people who have murdered their own babies and/or live in homosexual relationships or engage in other various evils to convince themselves that they are “good”...
Many of them have been looking to give their lives purpose since the war in Vietnam ended; now they have another reason to get out of bed each morning...
And how many houses don’t cause a carbon footprint? And that private jet or the entourage of suvees he drives around in?
Fat oil snake salesman.
Maybe it would be safe from Obola and Obama respiratory virus inside those walls.
They use air rifles to avoid green house gas emissions from the gunpowder.
An old fashioned plague tends to focus the mind on what is really important.
Well said. We must get a conservative president. Not a rino.dig in.
*Cant they just appeal to my bigotry, greed, and insensitivity if they want me to believe in global warming?*
LOL
Granted, Jennifer Lawrence is a pretty young woman. But I have to question the intelligence of anyone who would post nude photos of themselves in the cloud.
Just begging for trouble.
That’s what it’s going to come down to from these evil libtards. Believe or else......
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