Climate Change Elevator Pitch: Eric Rignot
May 6, 2018
One of my favorite little series, sparked by an idea from John Cook.
Along with John I interviewed scientists at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. John’s little wrinkle was to ask each scientist for an “Elevator pitch”, – a quick persuader on climate science, short enough to sum up between floors.
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May 6, 2018 at 3:26 pm
Reblogged this on Wibble and commented:
Someone said recently that we don’t need hope: what we need is courage.
May 7, 2018 at 7:51 am
agree.
takes courage to be better, one day at a time.
May 8, 2018 at 8:16 am
Members of the human species HAVE demonstrated courage all through our time on the planet, both as individuals and in groups. We have enough courage—-hope and wishful thinking and denial are going to kill us if we don’t somehow evolve better ways of thinking at a rate that exceeds the rate at which CAGW approaches..
Odds on that happening?—-not zero, but very low.
May 8, 2018 at 10:06 am
First of all, it needs leaders with integrity.
May 8, 2018 at 10:12 am
True to a point, but brainpower comes first. We in the USA are cursed with a “leader” with no integrity and the brainpower of a fifth grader.
May 12, 2018 at 3:38 pm
Isn’t it the result of predator capitalism?
May 14, 2018 at 8:55 am
Yep—-a lot of evolutionary steps occurred along the way, but “Predator capitalism” is the end result, and it’s not an oversimplification to say it’s a root cause of the looming catastrophe.