Re: Good climate change skeptics

Posted by Merle Lefkoff-2 on Nov 14, 2015; 8:46am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Good-climate-change-skeptics-tp7586673p7586857.html

Dear Nick,

Hello from the front lines of global climate change in Barrow, Alaska, where I had an incredible meeting today with Inupiat leader Rosemary Pilchuck, the Erin Brockovitch of Alaska.  I am so thankful that the activists we are gathering for our big ECOS conference in Santa Fe next fall are DOING SOMETHING about climate change, instead of just talking about it.

And by the way.  There is indeed a choir, but it's not singing together--the pop-up movements are not connected.  And we're DOING SOMETHING about that!

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Shawn Barr <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Nick,

Sorry for not responding sooner.  Richard Lindzen is pretty well regarded among the climate change "skeptics."  Here's a link to a recent talk of his:

​https://youtu.be/eRwYZV-hYnA​

Shawn

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear colleagues, 

 

I will be repatriated to Santa Fe soon and look forward to seeing you in October.

 

In the meantime, could you possibly help me with the following.  Clark University is proposing a forum on climate change.  I want that forum to be honest, so I am wondering if anybody in this group can propose me the names of some skeptics who are sober, thoughtful, and have not resorted to throwing snowballs in the senate, so I could propose those names to the convening committee.  My thought was that in a forum on climate change, which would include, of course, many sessions on consequences and remediation, should be at least one in which the whole consensus is put in doubt. 

 

My note to the committee is appended below, in case you are curious. 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

My fear here is that this will be one of those discussions where the choir sings to itself.  In Santa Fe, I sit with a group of highly trained engineers and hard scientists among whom are a few who are climate-change doubters.  These are folks who seem otherwise rational, so I have to take them seriously.  Now, I think it’s fair to say that every conversation amongst the climate change faithful  should not be gummed up by a few folks who doubt that it is happening at all.  For instance, we need to talk amongst ourselves about justice issues, How to respond so that its consequences will not fall disproportionately upon the weak and poor, However, I also think we should devote at least one session to bridging the gap between doubters and us faithful.  I suggest a session title, “Can a rational person doubt human-originated climate change?” and see who you can find that can explore the weaknesses in our consensus with the hope that such testing will make us more rational. 

 

 

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