by Dennis Ambler
Those of who have long been in denial about the realities of global warming and the credibility of the IPCC, can now feel relieved, there may be hope for us yet. The diagnosis has been made; we have a psychological problem, which so far has failed to respond to the millions upon millions of dollars spent in “communicating” climate change to the masses.
However, the process of our redemption is already underway: A new publication called “Communicating climate change to mass public audiences” has just been presented to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, by the “Climate Change Communication Advisory Group”.
(Yes, the UK does have a Minister for Climate Change, however, in 1976, there was actually a Minister for Drought, who was one of the most effective politicians in history, because within three days of his appointment, it had started raining.)
What is the Climate Change Communication Advisory Group – This UK group is a project of the Public Interest Research Centre, an “independent” group who are partially financed by the UK government’s Economic and Social Research Council. CCCAG is university based, with five psychology departments involved, including the US and also has WWF-UK as a member.
Communicating climate change to mass public audiences Working Document, September 2010
“This short advisory paper collates a set of recommendations about how best to shape mass public communications aimed at increasing concern about climate change and motivating commensurate behavioural changes.
“Its focus is not upon motivating small private-sphere behavioural changes on a piece-meal basis. Rather, it marshals evidence about how best to motivate the ambitious and systemic behavioural change that is necessary – including, crucially, greater public engagement with the policy process (through, for example, lobbying decision-makers and elected representatives, or participating in demonstrations), as well as major lifestyle changes.”
The first claims to exploring the psychology of “climate change denial” came from the University of the West of England last year.
Conference – Facing Climate Change, Climate Change Denial
University of the West of England, 7 March 2009
“Man-made climate change poses an unprecedented threat to the global ecosystem and yet the response, from national policy makers right through to individual consumers, remains tragically inadequate. The Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England is organising a major interdisciplinary event Facing Climate Change on this topic at UWE on 7 March 2009.
Facing Climate Change is the first national conference to specifically explore ‘climate change denial’.
This conference aims to strengthen our awareness of the challenge facing us and to enhance our capacity for effective decision-making and action. It will do this by bringing together a group of people – climate change activists, eco-psychologists, psychotherapists and social researchers – who are uniquely qualified to assess the human dimensions of this human-made problem.
Professor Paul Hoggett is helping to organise the conference, he said, “We will examine denial from a variety of different perspectives – as the product of addiction to consumption, as the outcome of diffusion of responsibility and the idea that someone else will sort it out and as the consequence of living in a perverse culture which encourages collusion, complacency, irresponsibility.”
Read the entire essay here (PDF)
Those of who have long been in denial about the realities of global warming and the credibility of the IPCC, can now feel relieved, there may be hope for us yet. The diagnosis has been made; we have a psychological problem, which so far has failed to respond to the millions upon millions of dollars spent in “communicating” climate change to the masses.
However, the process of our redemption is already underway: A new publication called “Communicating climate change to mass public audiences” has just been presented to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, by the “Climate Change Communication Advisory Group”.
(Yes, the UK does have a Minister for Climate Change, however, in 1976, there was actually a Minister for Drought, who was one of the most effective politicians in history, because within three days of his appointment, it had started raining.)
What is the Climate Change Communication Advisory Group – This UK group is a project of the Public Interest Research Centre, an “independent” group who are partially financed by the UK government’s Economic and Social Research Council. CCCAG is university based, with five psychology departments involved, including the US and also has WWF-UK as a member.
Communicating climate change to mass public audiences Working Document, September 2010
“This short advisory paper collates a set of recommendations about how best to shape mass public communications aimed at increasing concern about climate change and motivating commensurate behavioural changes.
“Its focus is not upon motivating small private-sphere behavioural changes on a piece-meal basis. Rather, it marshals evidence about how best to motivate the ambitious and systemic behavioural change that is necessary – including, crucially, greater public engagement with the policy process (through, for example, lobbying decision-makers and elected representatives, or participating in demonstrations), as well as major lifestyle changes.”
The first claims to exploring the psychology of “climate change denial” came from the University of the West of England last year.
fantastic.! Hope you don’t mind but i have put that as my signature on Netweather.tv
a English weather site.
Every sceptic should too,nail your colours to the mast and be proud!
Stefan says:
September 16, 2010 at 8:01 am
Maybe we are “thinking the wrong thoughts”…..
Feeling despair? Feeling lack? Feeling like you need to conserve your weak energies?
Choose creativity. Choose excitement. Choose hope.
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Choose getting out into the light of the life giving sun. Depression has been linked to not enough sunlight.
“According to a new study, a lack of sunlight has been linked to reduced cognitive function in people who suffer from depression. For their study, scientists used weather data from NASA satellites to measure sunlight exposure across the United States. They were then able to link this information to the prevalence of cognitive impairment in depressed people. The scientists say their finding suggests that lack of sunlight may not only affect mood, but thinking as well. “
That is the cure for the Warmistra, MORE sunlight!!! B
y denying the effects of the sun they have muddled their thinking and now this new study PROVES it. Hurry we must move Jones, Mann, Gavin and the others into the direct sunlight to cure their condition. Perhaps a couple of weeks in the Sahara, with no clothes of course, will cure their condition of “SUN DENIAL”
sorry thats for Jim Hogg
OOPs there really is such a Sunlight/depression/thinking study. link is here:
http://www.healthcentral.com/depression/news-294703-98.html
Mike Jonas says:
having read the document in persuaion its quite a ribald suggestion at the end – to “encourage public demonstrations of frustration”
This got me several years ago at the g8 meeting here in London where the riot police were quite heavy handed on the climate camp. Surely the climate camp were thoroughly condoning government propaganda, and ought therefore to have been treated with some privilege?
Professor Paul Hoggett is helping to organise the conference, he said, “We will examine denial from a variety of different perspectives – as the product of addiction to consumption, as the outcome of diffusion of responsibility and the idea that someone else will sort it out and as the consequence of living in a perverse culture which encourages collusion, complacency, irresponsibility.”
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The Scientific Method, seems to be missing from his examination, as a cause for “denial”. This may be a symptom of his “living in a perverse culture which encourages collusion, complacency, irresponsibility.”
As I don’t understand what “perverse”, implies, maybe it should be defined.
Possibly during the conference?
As a break, to recharge emotions?
OLS 58100: Communicating Global Climate Change (Course no longer
offered)
Purdue University
Approved courses in Great Issues in Science:
B.S. Degree Requirements: College of Science
(For students entering Fall 2007 and later)
Course Description: Society as a whole, particularly in the United
States, has appeared not to be deeply concerned about global warming
until late, and as a result, has been slow to act on urgent warnings
from the science and advocacy communities. If the science of global
warming is clear – why has society been slow to embrace the challenge
and combat the problem?
https://www.science.purdue.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=56:uncategorized&id=275:approved-courses-in-great-issues-in-science
TJA says:
September 16, 2010 at 8:57 am
Isn’t there some substance that they could put in the water to lower people’s facility for critical thinking? Maybe the Kool-Aide that they have been drinking?
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Nope it is the lack of sunlight.
Darkness Linked To ‘Brain Drain’ Effect of sunlight exposure on cognitive function among depressed and non-depressed participants:
Shia T Kent, Leslie A McClure, William L Crosson, Donna K Arnett, Virginia G Wadley and Nalini Sathiakumar
Steven Goddard had a good post on telling the WHOLE truth at
The Big Lie that applies here.
I took some time to contemplate whether our thinking was also not effective because we were being ted by the warmists half truths. Yes maybe. I posted:
I agree that we also been led to ask the wrong questions, getting away from basic science.
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Enneagram says:
September 16, 2010 at 9:13 am
Seriously: It is evident that the manufacturers of alternative energy sources have a share in this global warming scam, but, are the technologies already available ? I think they are not, so what’s is the hurry, anything else perhaps, like avoiding an oil price decrease because of the big oil deposits recently found ?
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Actually it may be the new generation of mini nuclear power plants
This model is Size in meters – 1.5w x 2.5h
“John Deal, the Hyperion CEO, says that such micro nuclear reactors should cost about $25 million each. In the U.S., where people spent more energy than in other parts of the world, such a reactor should be able to deliver power to only 10,000 households, for a cost of $2,500 per home. But in developing nations, one HPM could provide enough power for 60,000 homes or more, for a cost of less than $400.” http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/a-micro-nuclear-reactor-in-your-garden/1089
Anthony was saying in an earlier post his July 2010 energy bill was $620.16. My bill has been over $400 on occasion so a $3-4000 per home total cost looks really good to me. The only problem is all the government red tape. SIGHHhhhh
Presumably this group will get together in a year or so to ‘educate’ people how to keep warm using ‘alternative energy sources’ when, as Prof H. Svensmark’s findings come to fruition. See his paper – When the Sun Sleeps”.
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hunter says:
September 16, 2010 at 9:15 am
Another example of how CO2 obosession lowers the intellignece and increases the gullibility of those obsessed.
It is long past time to reign in this popular mania, before it deteriorates from merely silly to actually dangerous.
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They are after your wallet. They have always been after your wallet (and your freedom) so it has always been dangerous.
Obama’s Science Czar’s Book says it all
From: 1973 book “Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions”
“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. De-devolopment means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation. Resources and energy must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries.”
That would be the Global Warming/Environmental Campaign started in 1972 at the UN First Earth Summit.
“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge,” they wrote. “They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”
That would be the UN Agenda 21 otherwise known as “sustainability”
Enneagram says:
September 16, 2010 at 8:50 am
What the heck is an eco-psychologists?
Obviously they are advanced individuals that help people. People who have trouble talking to plants. People who feel rejected after hugging their tree. People out of touch with their inner green. :-}
Robert of Ottawa says:
September 16, 2010 at 9:29 am
It sounds like something from Mao’s cultural revolution….
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Of course it does. Google Maurice Strong and his cousin Anna who was buried in China with great ceremony.
When they speak of
“greater public engagement with the policy process”
They are talking of the UN run NGOs like Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of Earth, not the “Bilderbergers unwashed masses” like us.
Dear moderator:
Not sure what you think I should have flagged as sarcasm. The part about being good jurors or the part about the legal cases. The Katrina case is real–Comer v. Murphy Oil in Mississippi, I think–and there are other cases out there, too. And I really do think they want compliant jurors to win lots of damages. No sarcasm there, either.
P Wilson,
Could you point out where you read the information about Galileo’s father, and the threats made to get him to agree to come to Rome. I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
Thanks
Chris
noaaprogrammer says: September 16, 2010 at 8:24 am
LOL! Short and sweet and says it all.
Enneagram says:
September 16, 2010 at 9:36 am
hunter says:
September 16, 2010 at 9:15 am
…..before it deteriorates from merely silly to actually dangerous.
Do you mean a WWIII ?, it is possible, as judged for the unquenchable and pasionate interests behind, don’t show not a bit of discouragement up to now.
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“They” are smarter than that. Now a days they are more into economic warfare. Since they control the banking systems (money) in many countries I would expect them to crash the world economies again, although that might not work so well this time. Too many people have figured out “Central Banking” is just another name for organized, government sanctioned theft on a national and international scale.
In Sept. 14, 1994 David Rockefeller, speaking before the UN Business Council.
“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long – We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller hosts luncheons at the family’s Westchester estate for the world’s finance ministers and central bank governors, following the annual Washington meetings of the World Bank and IMF, so he is certainly in the position to orchestrate another collapse.
It is funny how the Fed doubled the US money supply in the spring of 2009 but the money is among the missing and so is the super revved up economy it was supposed to cause.
“The stock of U.S. money as measured by ‘M3’ money supply fell to $13.9 trillion from $14.2 trillion during the three months ending in April.
This 9.6% annualized contraction is unprecedented in the post-Depression era…”
http://www.businessinsider.com/money-supply-double-dip-2010-5
2008 Money supply total was $831 billion
2009 Money supply total was $1711 billion
2010 Feb Money supply total was $2114 billion
2010 Aug Money supply total is $1994 billion (this is the contraction)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/BOGUMBNS.txt
P Wilson,
I looked up Galileo’s father and he was apparently not burnt as a heretic. He seems to have lived out his life as a lutenist though, perhaps bad enough. I suspect that the source of your information for the purported arrest threats is the same as that of Vinzenzo’s immolation. Remember, Galileo was a personal friend of the Pope.
Furthermore, although he was a genius who greatly advanced science, and was recognized as such by the Church, Galileo’s contention that the Sun was fixed at the center of the Universe is not accurate either, although he persistently said it was so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Galilei
Ric Werme says:
“It’s been posted to Tips & Note four times. The URL for the paper has been posted there twice.”
Ric, sorry, I thought it was important.
John.
al says:
September 16, 2010 at 10:53 am
hmm, all i can say is that my local weather here in Sacramento has been much cooler than usual the past 2 years or so…
when they had a hot spell around Wash DC earlier in the year the media were falling all over themselves about “make sure you drink plenty of water”(after all OMG its going to be 100 degrees!!)..,…
would be interesting to hear from honest people from the Wash D.C. area if the media overstated that as usual, to fit their agenda…
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I am south of DC by 300 miles and inland by about 200 miles inland. (central North Carolina)
Our max temp this summer was one day in July at 100F. In the three month period Jun, July and August we had only 12 days over 95F and only 34 days over ninety for a total of 47 “hot” days. Considering we had 17 days over 90F and two days at 98F in May of 2004 compared to only four days at 91 for this May, I considered this a very mild summer. We did have a nice bit of rain this summer too.
Chis in Norfolk VA might be able to give you a better idea of what the DC weather was lik, but it wasn’t a heat wave here.
Chris B says:
September 16, 2010 at 4:15 pm
you could try this
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8609749/The-Scientific-Outlook-by-Bertrand-Russell
and find the section about Galileo pages 25-32. It has the official summons and Galileo’s reply. The entire book by Russell is quite an intersting resource for , written in 1932 – certainly before modern wiki revisionism.
However, this battle between deduction from nominally self evident axioms (in his day, the theological position -in ours the theory of global warmng) and induction and the experimental method seems as old as history. where theories reign supreme over facts represent a sort of anti rationality it can easily put science as knowledgde and understanding into abeyance.
u.k.(us) says:
September 16, 2010 at 3:06 pm
It is very disappointing to see a so called professor – Hoggett – using such vague college cafeteria rhetoric. I used to be penalised for writing such blather in essays.
Citizens of Earth, you’re Global Warming thoughts have not been pure enough.
As a direct result, the Earth has failed to warm, and it’s all your fault.
You must turn from your ways, or the climate will ultimately be disrupted, the weather go stark raving nuts, and the Earth will shatter into another Asteroid Belt.
Only the pure of thought can go on to Mars, the Mother Planet.
You know I laughed out loud, when I read about Orwell’s ‘Thought Police of Oceania’, many, many years ago. An absolutely crazy notion.
I’m not laughing now…..
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Translation: we are too stupid to understand the real meaning of climate disruption.