SALESMEN for real estate in Florida and Arizona would have people believe that every retiree in the Northeast who can afford it eventually moves to a warmer climate, away from the places they have spent decades of their lives.
Secondly Cancún moved climate action away from a standalone issue and embedded it in the concept of sustainable growth plans.
"I passionately believe that by recasting the argument for action on climate change away from the language of threats and punishments and into positive, profit-making terms, we can have a much wider impact," he says.
This was attempted a couple of years ago, when lawyers applied for an injunction under the Harassment Act to keep Climate Camp away from Heathrow, but the attempt was unsuccessful, and only three individuals were prevented from attending the camp.
The bury-your-head-in-the-sand approach won't make extreme weather events driven by a changing climate go away, but it will ensure that our response is uncoordinated, less proactive, and far more expensive.
In the middle of last year, as the climate shifted away from inclusion, the largest LGBT organization in America, the Human Rights Campaign failed to use its lobbying power and media dollars to debunk the bathroom myth in Houston, despite being the lead organization involved.
While climate scientists shy away from linking any single extreme event to climate change, they are able to say how much more likely those events are today than before humans began warming the atmosphere.
Did climate protest go away?
Abolishing the Climate Commission won't make climate change go away.
Mr. Abbott, you can't wish away climate change.
