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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>November 1, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[Climate Feedback - checking sources]<br>
<b>Guardian article on Arctic methane emissions claiming "a new
climate feedback loop may have been triggered" lacks important
context</b><br>
Analysis of "'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to
release, scientists find"<br>
Published in The Guardian, by Jonathan Watts on 27 Oct. 2020<br>
Four scientists analyzed the article and estimate its overall
scientific credibility to be 'low'. <br>
A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Clickbait headline,
Lack of context.<br>
<b>Science Feedback is a not-for-profit organization verifying the
credibility of influential claims and media coverage that claims
to be scientific, starting with the topics of climate and health.</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sciencefeedback.co/about/">https://sciencefeedback.co/about/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/guardian-article-on-arctic-methane-emissions-lacks-important-context-jonathan-watts/">https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/guardian-article-on-arctic-methane-emissions-lacks-important-context-jonathan-watts/</a><br>
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[fundamental question in the New Yorker]<br>
<b>How Should the Media Talk About Climate Change?</b><br>
Genevieve Guenther, a former Renaissance scholar, studies how we
discuss global warming--and how we don't.<br>
By Lizzie Widdicombe<br>
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Guenther runs a volunteer group called End Climate Silence, which is
focussed on combatting something more subtle than the aggressive
climate denial espoused by Trump and his allies in government, or on
Fox News: when news anchors or weather forecasters breathlessly
cover an extreme-weather event--a hurricane, drought, forest fire,
or heat wave--without ever mentioning the C-phrase. Instead, they'll
talk around it, using terms like "historic," "unprecedented," and
"record-shattering." According to Guenther, this silence is just as
pernicious as denial. "There is a name for the unprecedented
intensity and scale and relentlessness of extreme-weather
disasters," she said. "Climate change." She added, "If you fail to
mention that, it gives people the impression that it's not
happening--that these disasters are acts of God."...<br>
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Guenther began to think that she might have something to contribute
to the dialogue. "In Renaissance literature, there's a rhetorical
principle called energia--energy or vividness," she said. "It means
that, if you're trying to persuade your reader, you need to give
them vivid images that will capture their imaginations." She found
most "climate communications" to be energia-deficient. "It was too
data-driven and abstract. It would talk about ice and the sea and
polar bears--none of the things that made it urgent and personal to
me." Instead of the Shakespeare book, she began writing a book about
what she calls "the language of climate change." It analyzes common
words and phrases in the field, arguing that many of them are
counterproductive, "misrepresenting the problem and biasing us
against the solutions."<br>
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Researchers such as Naomi Oreskes have documented the ways that,
over the years, fossil-fuel interests have weaponized the notion of
"scientific uncertainty" to manipulate public opinion. In one
chapter, Guenther focusses on the word "uncertainty" itself. "For
normal people, you hear 'uncertainty' and it suggests that you don't
know something," she explained. "But in climate science
'uncertainty' basically means a range of possible outcomes. As in,
'The uncertainty interval is from 1.5 degrees Celsius to three
degrees Celsius.' The synonym for that is confidence."<br>
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She also dislikes the word "consensus"--as in "the scientific
consensus on climate change"--because it gives rise to the vaguely
conspiratorial image of a group of scientists getting together and
coming to an agreement. "In science, consensus doesn't refer to a
discussion," she said. "It means knowledge that arises from
independent research projects which all achieve the same results."
She prefers the term "discovery." And she takes issue with the
ubiquitous "we," as in, "We could have stopped climate change in the
nineteen-eighties." "You think this little pronoun is so innocent,
but it actually obscures the political reality of the whole
problem," she said, bringing up the vast differences in the carbon
emissions of rich and poor countries, and the role of the
fossil-fuel industry in blocking solutions. She has written that,
instead of thinking of climate change as something that "we are
doing," most people should think of it as "something we are being
prevented from undoing."...<br>
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"It's important, because you see from polling that one of the
greatest predictors of people's belief in global warming is how much
they hear about it. There's not a magic set of words," Jamie Henn, a
350.org co-founder who now runs a group called Fossil Free Media,
said. "We often see that, especially for TV, you get more coverage
on climate when people complain about it."...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-should-the-media-talk-about-climate-change">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-should-the-media-talk-about-climate-change</a><br>
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[video lecture]<br>
<b>Genevieve Guenther: Keywords for a New Climate - 9/29/19</b><br>
Oct 1, 2019<br>
New York Society for Ethical Culture<br>
Why is there not a bigger movement of people demanding our
governments take action on climate change? Part of the problem is
that we talk about climate change in ways that uphold the ideals of
the fossil-fuel system we're trying to transform. Using the words
"uncertainty," "cost," "resilience," and "we" as examples, Dr.
Guenther will discuss how to think and talk about the climate crisis
in ways that mobilize political action.<br>
Genevieve Guenther, Ph.D. is Affiliate Faculty at the Tishman
Environment and Design Center at The New School and the founder and
director of End Climate Silence.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncl-FkXFBI4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncl-FkXFBI4</a><br>
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[Check the data]<br>
<b>Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn't
stopping catastrophic wildfires</b><br>
By Tony Schick (OPB)<br>
Gates, Ore. Oct. 31, 2020 6 a.m.<br>
For decades, Oregon's timber industry has promoted the idea that
private, logged lands are less prone to wildfires. The problem?
Science doesn't support that.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/31/logging-wildfire-forest-management/">https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/31/logging-wildfire-forest-management/</a>
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[Interactive map - gender most affected by climate change]<br>
Carbon Brief<br>
29 October 2020 <br>
<b>Mapped: How climate change disproportionately affects women's
health.</b><br>
From supercharging extreme weather events to boosting the spread of
infectious diseases, climate change is already having a huge impact
on human health across the world.<br>
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But this impact is not being felt equally. A growing body of
research suggests that the world's most disadvantaged people are
also the most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change and
the least likely to be able to adapt...<br>
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Out of the 130 climate and health studies analysed, around 68% (89)
found that women were more affected than men.<br>
<br>
Across the world, women are more likely than men to be affected by
climate-related food insecurity and are also more likely to suffer
from mental illness or partner violence following extreme weather
events.<br>
<blockquote>"It has more to do with societal roles rather than
physiological differences. I tend to say climate change is
exacerbating existing inequalities, be that gender or other
inequalities."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-disproportionately-affects-womens-health">https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-disproportionately-affects-womens-health</a><br>
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[2016 PDF file]<br>
<b>Gender and Climate Change:</b><br>
A Closer Look at Existing Evidence <br>
About this Report<br>
Perceiving a gap in the resources available to individuals and<br>
organizations concerned about the gendered experiences<br>
of climate change, GGCA commissioned this literature<br>
review in early 2016 in order to provide the most up-todate
assessment of the current evidence base illustrating<br>
how vulnerability to climate change and climate adaptation<br>
decisions vary by gender. This is designed to serve as a<br>
resource highlighting literature addressing a broad array<br>
of gender and climate issues affecting vulnerability and<br>
adaptation capacity. While this document contains hundreds of<br>
references, due to space limitations, it is not able to provide<br>
a comprehensive assessment of every topic covered. Readers<br>
are directed to the literature reviews cited below for additional<br>
sources, as well as subject-specific references that are<br>
contained in many sections of the review, which often contain<br>
information on additional research. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wedo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GGCA-RP-FINAL.pdf">http://wedo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GGCA-RP-FINAL.pdf</a><br>
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[necessary changes both personal and radical]<br>
<b>The Psychology of Climate Change with Robert Frank</b><br>
Feb 11, 2020<br>
University of California Television (UCTV)<br>
After more than three decades, the public is finally beginning to
grasp what a serious threat global warming poses. What's missing
from the climate conversation now is a plausible narrative about how
we might parry this threat. Drawing on ideas from his recently
published book, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work,
Robert Frank explains why our ability to tap the prodigious power of
behavioral contagion may make the path forward less daunting than
many think. Recorded on 1/27/2020. [3/2020] [Show ID: 35561]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQbas9rN43o&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQbas9rN43o&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
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[Hidden Brain radio - considering political deep involvement]<br>
<b>Not at the Dinner Table</b><br>
October 29<br>
We typically divide the country into two distinct groups: Democrats
and Republicans. But what if the real political divide in our
country isn't between "left" and "right"? What if it's between those
who care intensely about politics, and those who don't?<br>
This week we talk to Yanna Krupnikov, a political scientist at Stony
Brook University, about an alternative way to understand Americans'
political views.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/not-at-the-dinner-table/">https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/not-at-the-dinner-table/</a><br>
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[after Halloween]<br>
E&E News EXTREME WEATHER <br>
<b>5 climate ghost towns</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063717401">https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063717401</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
November 1, 1987 </b></font><br>
<p>At a Democratic presidential candidates' forum on the environment
in Manchester, New Hampshire, Boston Globe environmental reporter
Dianne Dumanoski asks Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and Sen.
Al Gore about their plans to address acid rain and climate change.
Dukakis and Gore note that the US must show global leadership on
both issues. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir</a>
- (starts at 19:55-26:44)</p>
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