28 June, 2014

What bugs you about the climate change conversation?


What is it that bugs you most when talking with someone about climate change?

Personally, discontent arises when those who are absolutely unqualified to comment, make sweeping observations about the climate, weather and present events and qualify those comments by pointing to one historic and isolated similar event – it’s the “we live in a land a sweeping plains, droughts and flooding rains” syndrome.

Many with an innate reluctance to change, to make the necessary changes if we are to ever mitigate climate change draw some strange, and as time will show, perverse comfort from their adherence to that Dorothea McKellar inculcation.

Now, The Guardian has asked just a few of the world’s leading climatologist and researchers a similar question and their responses can be read in the story headed: “What really annoys scientists about the state of the climate change debate?”

-      Robert McLean

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