(NPR link) Switzer's contribution is worth highlighting here as a "Your Dot" post: There is not one climate dispute.
The situation would also represent a new type of climate dispute, one that offers a glimpse of the kinds of multigenerational and multinational challenges society can expect to encounter, says Liam Colgan, a glaciologist at York University in Toronto, Canada, and lead author of the study, published today in Geophysical Research Letters.
See the three slides here for some evidence: "Energy Agreement Hidden by Climate Disputes".
Yesterday's post on "The Role of Values in Driving Climate Disputes" prompted reactions from a variety of people, including Richard Louv, the author of "Last Child in the Woods" and "The Nature Principle".
For those who don't have time to watch, here are some core points: First, we focused on the potential to clarify many climate disputes by getting beyond iconic, but essentially meaningless, phrases like "global warming".
Click through the three slides below — which I titled "Energy Agreement Hidden by Climate Disputes" — to see what I mean: For those who prefer text to video, here's the Union of Concerned Scientists transcript of the statements by Emanuel and Frumhoff: Common Ground, Common Atmosphere KERRY: One of us has usually voted for Republicans.
Reacting to yesterday's piece on how better definitions of terms could help clarify climate disputes, Oran Switzer of Phoenix, Ariz., posted a comment reminding folks how values, more than data, largely shape positions on the level of risk posed by greenhouse gases.
Revelations of the private correspondence are particularly poorly timed for FiveThirtyEight, which has been dogged online throughout most of its 11-day existence by the climate change dispute.
He said the warming trend of the past half-century has stalled — an assertion most climate scientists dispute — and that sea-level rise hasn't picked up speed since the Industrial Revolution.
However, Prof Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the forces underlying attitudes towards climate change, disputed the idea that educating the public about the broad scientific agreement on the causes of climate change would have an effect on public opinion - or on the political conditions for climate action.
A climate scientist disputes that he ever said, "Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen," a quote global warming skeptics have attributed to him for years.
