Dr. Lucky Tran Jun 21, 2023

Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…

The Hill
Show threadYellowPupJun 21, 2023
@luckytran politicians have not exactly been trying hard either.
Show threadReiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
@YellowPup @luckytran they are trying hard to confuse the issue. And they are good at it. Well they had support from media-companies and donations by fossilists.
Jun 21, 2023 at 6:22amWeb