Pauline von Hellermann#ClimateDiary Yep, this is where we are at.
enoch_exe_inc@pvonhellermannn Even without looking at the data, I can say for a fact that it definitely feels hotter this year than it did last year, and the year before that, and so on.
Tom Ritchford@enoch_exe_inc @pvonhellermannn With all due respect, if we allow your personal experience, we have to allow all those other personal experiences where people say, "My region has been just fine".
Personal experience has no scientific value in a matter as huge as "the climate of the entire Earth". Only hard data has value.
@TomSwirly @enoch_exe_inc @pvonhellermannn Yes, that’s true, and I’m in no way implying my anecdotal evidence carries any scientific weight. But I thought it was worth sharing given that I live in Canada, the True North, the country that’s widely perceived as vast, empty, and cold.
Simon Johnson@enoch_exe_inc @TomSwirly @pvonhellermannn I read a report some years back on a study into the impact of TV weather forecasters on people’s understanding and perception
It seems that, as trusted, friendly, familiar faces who land in viewers’ living rooms pretty much every day, forecasters who drew connections between the weather patterns they described and the climate change that was making some of them more likely, really helped people get it 1/2
@enoch_exe_inc @TomSwirly @pvonhellermannn 2/2
Ok, questions over causation, attribution, etc but relating what people experienced as abstract scientific concepts to their everyday experiences really helped make the science real for people and shifted attitudes
So much better than the usual “Fantastic! The heatwave continues - break open the ice cream and drive to the seaside” that we invariably get
Ralf Stubner@Simon318ppm @enoch_exe_inc @TomSwirly @pvonhellermannn indeed!I am pretty sure that @terliwetter has been very important here in Germany, helping to spread the science about #GlobalWarming.
Grant@Simon318ppm @enoch_exe_inc @TomSwirly @pvonhellermannn
FWIW..
In France, climate change is constantly referred to in the weather programs.