"Climate hushing"—the quiet trend undermining global climate action

The year of renewables, bad news in disguise, "climate hushers", and how to keep the conversation going

Talking Climate
"Billionaire #BillGates argued that a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius is unavoidable and not a “super bad outcome”—a view unlikely to be shared by the millions of people whose homes would be destroyed by the resulting killer storms and rising seas." www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Climate Hushers Need to Get Re...
Climate Hushers Need to Get Real

Political realism doesn’t outweigh scientific realism.

The Nation
A rock solid, consistent majority in the USA support strong #ClimateAction and just like here in Canada and indeed Alberta, NOBODY speaks to them #TalkClimate #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The big issue Democrats have s...
The big issue Democrats have stopped talking about

A Washington Post analysis of Democratic lawmakers’ appearances and social media posts show they are going quiet on climate.

The Washington Post
The biggest climate risk right now isn’t denial. It’s silence

Trusted institutions have gone silent on the climate crisis, just when they are most needed.

Trellis
EndClimateSilence.org

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Climate Silence (and how to break it) - Climate Outreach

This report describes the blanket of silence that has descended on the issue of climate change in the UK in the past five years. The report argues the debate urgently needs […]

Climate Outreach
‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

The Guardian
Sounds Behind the Climate Silence

Forget what you don’t hear. The impact of climate chaos is being felt everywhere, from energy demand to Trump’s foreign policy.

Medium
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

The Guardian
Exclude coverage of Trump's attacks on #ClimateAction & #Science in this analysis & #ClimateChange, one of the hottest years & some of the most expensive disasters on record were barely talked about at all #EndClimateSilence #TalkClimate #ClimateHushing #ClimateSky www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

Climate change media coverage ...
Climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025

Despite rising impacts, climate change received less attention in media around the world in 2025. CU Boulder sociologist Max Boykoff shares the reasons and

CU Boulder Today
Politicians won't #TalkClimate, neither does the media which then reports #ClimateChange polling low as a concern with citizens, a self-fulfilling prophecy that benefits an expensive/deadly status quo #EndClimateSilence #TalkClimate #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #ClimateSky bsky.app/profile/bigc...

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Politicians, the big corporations, the media, all those folks that were saying all those pretty words about #NetZero exhibiting historic cowardice about talking #ClimateChange and #BigOil couldn’t be happier about it bsky.app/profile/cove... #TalkClimate #EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #Climate

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