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…

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@luckytran Carl Sagan sat in front US Congress in 1985 and explained everything with great poise using words people at that level should understand. Among those people was Al Gore. We had an opportunity to address climate change in 2000. I wonder where we would be today had Gore won.
Jun 21, 2023 at 2:01pmWeb