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Americans and Climate Change: Setting goals IV
"Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action" (PDF) is a report synthesizing the insights of 110 leading thinkers on how to educate and motivate the American public on the subject of global warming. Background on the report here. I'll be posting a series of excerpts (citations have been removed; see original report). If you'd like to be involved in implementing the report's recommendations, or learn more, visit the Yale Project on Climate Change website.
Today's bit is brief and fun. It's about setting a different kind of target: Targets for changing the attitudes of the public.
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Going to Hell in a Sandbasket
North central China being slowly swallowed by desert Two deserts in north central China are rapidly expanding, burying 1,500 square miles of grasslands, lakes, forests, and villages under sand every […]
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Biscuits ‘n’ Crazy
Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire Enviros have lost a four-year legal battle to keep logging out of Oregon’s Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, burned four […]
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Electric car questions
Tomorrow I'll be chatting with the folks behind Who Killed the Electric Car? (I saw it this evening -- it's quite good.)
Any questions y'all would like me to ask?
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Deactivated cylinders
The competition to own the biggest truck on the block has finally reached its zenith. The Detroit News tells us that pickup truck sales continue to "crater."
GM and Ford Motor Co. announced plans to cut North American vehicle output in the third quarter to pare their stocks of unsold [pickup] trucks.
"That market is sitting back a bit," said Gary Dilts, senior vice president of sales at DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group. "But the core of the truck business -- a very large percentage -- will remain, because they need that kind of vehicle."Garbage in = garbage out. A small percentage of people who buy these trucks actually need them.
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It’s that kind of movie
A friend sent this email -- her review of An Inconvenient Truth -- at 1:18 AM last night.
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Getting accurate information: Public or private responsibility?
An interesting debate was touched on in this thread, so I thought I'd elevate it so we can discuss it directly. Atreyger says this:
Imagine people who don't understand the [climate] science at all ... what happens is that you have a lot of hand-waving from both sides, with polarization of the pro- and con- groups who don't know what's going on and are just listening to others ...
I guess my point is that if all of us would have a better education in science and math, then this problem would be reduced.This is a common sentiment, and there's certainly an element of truth in it: If the citizenry were better educated in basic scientific method, statistics, and logic, climate contrarianism would have a rougher time of it.
But, as Kaela put it:
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‘Eco-terrorism’: This will go on your permanent record
Well this is comforting:
AUGUSTA, Maine -- State police have asked about a dozen environmental activists in Maine to provide samples of their DNA as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, police said.
Update [2006-6-8 16:28:18 by David Roberts]: See also this very good story in the L.A. Times. -
Virtual fish
Seeing how it is World Ocean Day (and being the geek that I am), I'd like to follow up my virtual ecology post with this: virtual schools of fish.
While real-world fish need to worry about climate change, toxic runoff, and what have you, virtual fish run the risk of "swimming off world." (Would that be like the dolphins in A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?)
