Selections from the previous list of key blog posts.
The Situation: The disconnected-from-physical-reality GOP attacks on climate science (a.i.) have reached horrifying levels with the Trump Administration. Yet science loving rationalists, pluralists, progressives, liberals, Democrats still haven’t developed effective messaging for directly confronting the most childish of Republican arguments.
Why? Seems to me, mainly because rationalists rather sidestep that Me First driven willful ignorance. This acquiescence to malicious nonsense has been a fatal error for the national dialogue.
Engaging and arguing with contrarians should not be seen as an exercise in futility, since those are teaching opportunity for explaining the simple logical geophysical reasons behind some of the disingenuous arguments to onlookers from our own side, who probably don’t understand the science very well themselves. Making teaching opportunities out of false claims.
Even on this fateful US election eve, little effort seems expended to help geographically dispersed individual activists, of diverse talents, network with like-minded for sharing information, developing ideas, raising enthusiasm for debate. Such efforts would facilitate better appreciation for what we are all about, while encouraging a sense of community and pro-active cooperation.
Why write that essay:
I’m hoping it might resonate with some of you and that you’ll be in a position to do more with it than I ever can here in my Colorado hinterlands. It has my copyright, but that’s about establishing my authorship, I invite its copying and sharing.
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Exploring the Map v Territory Problem - via the Brown Ocean Effect and Dr. Trenberth
“… During the Q&A I had a chance to ask Dr.Trenberth, (58:00 video 3/3)
