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<font size="+1"><i>July 8, 2017</i></font><br>
<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep16/">(audio 51 min) Katharine
Hayhoe and shared values</a></b><br>
THE SCIENCE OF WHY SCIENCE FAILS TO PERSUADE<br>
In our new podcast episode, we talk to climate scientist Katharine
Hayhoe about cheerfully responding to climate misinformation,
finding shared values with your audience, finding hope in climate
solutions, and denial mansplaining.<br>
You can listen to our episode at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep16/">http://evidencesquared.com/ep16/</a>
or download it directly from iTunes or Soundcloud.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/07/climate-change-denial-scepticism-cynicism-politics"><font
size="-1">http://evidencesquared.com/ep16/</font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/07/07/mysterious-explosions-in-siberia-are-signs-of-galloping-climate-change/">Mysterious
Explosions In Siberia Are Signs Of Galloping Climate Change</a></b><br>
Siberia is no stranger to mysterious explosions. <br>
More recent explosions, by far less powerful, but still dangerous,
seem to be caused by climate change.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/07/07/mysterious-explosions-in-siberia-are-signs-of-galloping-climate-change/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/07/07/mysterious-explosions-in-siberia-are-signs-of-galloping-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/07/water-towers-security-risks-in-a-changing-climate/">Water
Towers: Security Risks in a Changing Climate</a></b><br>
By Troy Sternberg<br>
Since the Boutros Boutros Ghali, then Secretary General of the
United Nations stated that the next war in the Middle East will be
over water, not politics, the global community has focused on water
flashpoints, particularly in the Middle East. But examining micro-
to meso-scale dynamics has confined thinking to rivers, aquifers and
watersheds at national levels. While important, discussion has often
ignored the megascale threat of human and climate changes to the
world's mountain 'water towers' and the resultant implications to
security and human well-being. For example: two billion people
depend on water originating on the Tibetan Plateau. Hundreds of
millions more drink from global water towers, including the massive
Andes, Rockies, Tien Shan, Caucasus and Alps to the more modest
Ethiopian and Guinean Highlands. In each, climate change affects
glaciers, water resources and runoff. If it were only a matter of
harnessing water from a nation's territorial mountain, the issue
would be structural; the complication comes when water flows through
several states. Riparian nations stress natural, human and economic
rights to water that crosses their realm, yet without physical
control, states remain vulnerable to upstream users. This gives a
hegemonic dynamic to control of water towers with significant
implications for national and regional security…<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/2_water-towers.pdf">For
the full article, click here.</a><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/07/water-towers-security-risks-in-a-changing-climate/#more-14073">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/07/water-towers-security-risks-in-a-changing-climate/#more-14073</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/07/water-towers-security-risks-in-a-changing-climate/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/07/07/water-towers-security-risks-in-a-changing-climate/</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/07/climate-change-denial-scepticism-cynicism-politics"><b>How
climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous</b></a></font><br>
Doubts about the science are being replaced by doubts about the
motives of scientists and their political supporters. <br>
Once this kind of cynicism takes hold, is there any hope for the
truth? <br>
Long Read By David Runciman<br>
Last month Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the
United States from the Paris climate accord. For his supporters, it
provided evidence, at last, that the president is a man of his word.
He may not have kept many campaign promises, but he kept this one.
For his numerous critics it is just another sign of how little Trump
cares about evidence of any kind. His decision to junk the Paris
accord confirms Trump as the poster politician for the "post-truth"
age...<br>
But this is not just about Trump. The motley array of candidates who
ran for the Republican presidential nomination was divided on many
things, but not on climate change. None of them was willing to take
the issue seriously. In a bitterly contentious election, it was a
rare instance of unanimity. The consensus that climate is a
non-subject was shared by all the candidates who appeared in the
first major Republican debate in August 2015 – Jeb Bush, Scott
Walker, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris
Christie, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee and Trump. Republican voters
were offered 10 shades of denialism...<br>
As Huckabee quipped in January 2015, any talk of global warming was
a distraction from the real dangers the country faced: "A beheading
is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn."...<br>
This is how climate scepticism becomes climate cynicism: doubts
about the evidence are replaced by doubts about the motives of the
people using it. In 2012, Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican who once
brought a snowball on to the floor of the senate to show that
climate change wasn't real, published The Greatest Hoax: How the
Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future. The book contains
two lengthy appendices. The first is the full transcript of the UEA
emails, presented as prima facie evidence that the science is a fix.
The second is a history of the United Nations global development
programme. The argument goes like this: there is no need for world
government unless there are issues that can't be solved by national
governments. Climate change is such an issue. So it follows that it
has been invented by people who can't justify world government any
other way. It is a globalist plot...<br>
Once cynicism becomes the default mode of attack, then both sides
are trapped. Moreover, it is not a level playing field. It favours
the cynics. Scientists have to decide whether to let the facts speak
for themselves, or whether to try to take on the cynics at their own
game. If they pull back from politics, they risk letting the cynics
set the agenda. If they don't, they risk proving the cynics right.<br>
The currency in which these campaigns trade is doubt. Their goal is
to sow uncertainty in the public mind about what the science shows.
In the words of an American Petroleum Institute action plan from
1998: "Victory will be achieved when average citizens 'understand'
uncertainties in climate science." To that end, money has been
funnelled towards scientific researchers who dissent from mainstream
opinion, even if those researchers are in a very small minority.
Sowing doubt turns out to be relatively cost-efficient, because
dissent only needs a few exceptions to the orthodoxy, whereas
consensus requires everyone else to hold fast to it.<br>
In the febrile, divisive state of our politics, it's not what you
say, it's what you say about yourself by saying it that really
counts. The social media revolution amplifies and exaggerates these
kinds of accusations. It has become easier than ever to find
evidence of how individuals' public attitudes are given the lie by
their private actions. There are now so many public attitudes to
choose from, and private actions are now so much harder to hide.
Twitter is a vast hypocrisy-generating machine that is corroding
democratic politics. Scepticism, which is a democratic virtue, is
giving way to cynicism, which is a democratic vice, across the
board.<br>
Faced with a concerted assault on their integrity, what should
climate scientists do? They face a choice. One option is to try to
reclaim climate scepticism from the people who have corrupted it.
The other is to insist more strongly than ever on the consensus.
When the space for doubt has been taken away, you can respond by
becoming more certain of your own position. Or you can try to take
doubt back.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/07/climate-change-denial-scepticism-cynicism-politics">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/07/climate-change-denial-scepticism-cynicism-politics</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/bees-may-mistime-hatching-with-global-warming-missing-their-food-supply">Global
Warming May Cause Bees to Mistime Spring Emergence, Missing
Their Food Supply</a></b><br>
German researchers from the University of Würzburg, reporting in the
Journal of Animal Biology, investigated three different species of
bees that hatch in the spring. They set up 36 flight cages, which
allowed them to time the emergence of the bees so it was
simultaneous with the flowering of plants in the cage or occurred
three or six days prior to flowering. The study showed that bees
that hatched prior to flowering suffered from lower rates of
reproduction, were less active, and faced greater risk from
predators and parasites.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/bees-may-mistime-hatching-with-global-warming-missing-their-food-supply">http://e360.yale.edu/digest/bees-may-mistime-hatching-with-global-warming-missing-their-food-supply</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://digital.vpr.net/post/titterton-ticks-and-climate-change">(audio
+ text) Titterton: Ticks And Climate Change</a></b><br>
I have friends who won't go outside here without DEET and long
sleeves, and every few weeks I hear of someone else going to the
doctor to have a bite checked, or to seek help for the pain and
fatigue of chronic Lyme.<br>
I won't let fear of ticks keep me from hiking, gardening, and
showing my son the wonder of our natural world. But I take their
threat seriously – as I do the greater threat of climate change they
represent.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://digital.vpr.net/post/titterton-ticks-and-climate-change">http://digital.vpr.net/post/titterton-ticks-and-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://variety.com/2017/film/news/geostorm-trailer-gerard-butler-watch-video-1202488835/">New
'Geostorm' Trailer: Gerard Butler Attempts to Save the World
From Climate Change Disaster</a></b></font><br>
<i>(Disaster movie spectacular has no relation to reality
whatsoever. )</i><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://variety.com/2017/film/news/geostorm-trailer-gerard-butler-watch-video-1202488835/">http://variety.com/2017/film/news/geostorm-trailer-gerard-butler-watch-video-1202488835/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page2093.html">This Day in
Climate History July 8, 1991</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 8, 1991: Speaking at the Sunday Times Environmental Conference
in London, British Prime Minister John Major states:<br>
"Personally, I have always thought it wrong to call it the
greenhouse effect. I dislike the term, I dislike it because the
image is too cosy, too domestic and far too complacent. Begonias and
petunias it most certainly is not. The threat of global warming is
real: the spread of deserts, changed weather patterns with
potentially more storms and hurricanes, perhaps more flooding of low
lying areas and possibly even the disappearance of some island
states."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page2093.html">http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page2093.html</a></font><font
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