Story submitted by Eric Worrall
Doug Sisterson, senior manager at the Argonne National Laboratory, thinks climate alarmists need to ditch the positive mental attitude when communicating about climate, that they need to make the message more frightening.
According to Forbes;
“… according to a climate scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who says it’s time to replace the term climate change, itself a replacement for global warming, with a new term: climate disruption.
“Positive mental attitude is a really wonderful way to deal with change,” research meteorologist Doug Sisterson told about 200 people at the University of Chicago’s International House Tuesday night. “We’ve learned that we want to be optimists and have a positive mental attitude, and the way we deal with that is by thinking ‘Not all change is bad.’ Well, talking about climate change, it’s not good. So maybe it’s wrong to portray climate change with a positive mental attitude.”
It is a little difficult to see exactly how climate alarmists could tone down the optimism in their doom laden pronouncements. How do you reduce the optimism implicit, in say James Hansen’s boiling ocean / runaway greenhouse scenario?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/10/why-a-compelling-theory-is-not-enough/
Maybe Sisterson means that the message needs to be be more vivid. Instead of simply saying “the oceans will boil”, perhaps climate scientists could accompany this statement, with an artist’s impression of what the boiling oceans will do to the Easter Bunny.
usually I charge for these things.
Climate Disease
Haven’t they considered that their UN Archbishoprics would have to be renamed? UNFCCD? IPCD?
Climydia?
spookily I was considering that also but I wasn’t sure how the best spelling would be.
Catchy, isn’t it?
Climarrhea ?
Maybe a new STD (Solar Trend Downward).
Climorrhea ?
…. and, HEY whoever rolled that turd in glitter we need to get that glitter off, at the taxpayer’s expense of course.
Climate Detonation?
Doug has a soul-mate at the already CAGW-obsessed Guardian – the outgoing Editor Rusbridger:
6 March: BusinessGreen: Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre
As global warming argument moves on to politics and business, Alan Rusbridger explains the thinking behind our major series on the climate crisis
There may be untold catastrophes, famines, floods, droughts, wars, migrations and sufferings just around the corner. But that is futurology, not news, so it is not going to force itself on any front page any time soon.
Even when the overwhelming majority of scientists wave a big red flag in the air, they tend to be ignored… Is it all too frightening to contemplate? Is a collective shrug of fatalism the only rational response?…
The climate threat features very prominently on the home page of the Guardian even though nothing exceptional happened on Friday. It will be there again next week and the week after. You will, I hope, be reading a lot about our climate over the coming weeks.
***One reason for this is personal. This summer I am stepping down after 20 years of editing the Guardian. Over Christmas I tried to anticipate whether I would have any regrets once I no longer had the leadership of this extraordinary agent of reporting, argument, investigation, questioning and advocacy.
Very few regrets, I thought, except this one: that we had not done justice to this huge, overshadowing, overwhelming issue of how climate change will probably, within the lifetime of our children, cause untold havoc and stress to our species…
So, in the time left to me as editor, I thought I would try to harness the Guardian’s best resources to describe what is happening and what – if we do nothing – is almost certain to occur, a future that one distinguished scientist has termed as “incompatible with any reasonable characterisation of an organised, equitable and civilised global community”.
It is not that the Guardian has not ploughed considerable time, effort, knowledge, talent and money into reporting this story over many years.
The coming debate is about two things: what governments can do to attempt to regulate, or otherwise stave off, the now predictably terrifying consequences of global warming beyond 2C (35F) by the end of the century. And how we can prevent the states and corporations which own the planet’s remaining reserves of coal, gas and oil from ever being allowed to dig most of it up. We need to keep them in the ground…
Next week, McKibben will describe how the cause of divestment is moving rapidly from a fringe campaign to a mainstream concern for banks and fund managers…
Where does this leave you? I hope not feeling impotent and fearful.
Some of you may be marching in London on Saturday 7 March…
And we hope that many readers will find inspiration in our series to make their own contribution by applying pressure on their workplace, or ***pension fund, to move.
But, most of all, please read what we write…
This article first appeared at the Guardian.
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/2398526/climate-change-why-the-guardian-is-putting-threat-to-earth-front-and-centre
Business Green was/is part of this Media House:
Wikipedia: Incisive Media
In January 2015, Incisive Media’s lenders agreed a restructuring which saw private equity house Alchemy Partners take majority ownership of the business. The restructure helped reduce Incisive’s debts significantly. Tim Weller is now executive chairman with former Informa and Emap CEO David Gilbertson joining the board of directors as a non-executive director…
the new bossses:
Alchemy Partners – The Team
http://www.alchemypartners.co.uk/the-team
London Bubble innit. When I lived in London there never was any weather.
I’ve got it. The perfect phrase for those who wish to instill just the right combination of fear, guilt, and anxiety;
Climate Hiroshima.
Possibly the best thing we can do is not allow these con artists nor the general public to forget which this is/was initially all about…catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. This is no time to allow these low life to “weasel out” of their rash unsupported ridiculous claims.
Time for them to “eat their words.”
Why don’t they just call it “Climate Fox News”? At least that way they’re certain to have all the liberals screaming against it at the top of their collective voices… /sarc
Climate Gangrene.
As I believe in truth in advertising.
The Green Gang have been fully exposed, their work stinks and kills the host.
What could be more alarming.
Obviously the climate science communicators need some new ideas.
Here is one… try telling the truth.
After all 20 years of overstating the case is even less convincing than the honest observation.. We don’t know.
So what they’re saying is we need more climate change cowbell?
The comments here lately are hilarious. The alarmists will be studied for atleast a generation after the idea co2 is a major climate driver ready yo trigger feedbacks loops mandatory for the scary end of the claims is replaced. It amazes me that so few of them can even admit that there are dozens of papers trying to explain the current lack of warming, and it is the rate of warming that was to cause most of the issues, warming itself is mostly positive. Ive debated dozens of them 1 on 1 now and thus far 100% just end the conversation once they realize their religion truly is in question. They were told the skeptic stance was baseless, but they clearly haven’t looked or most of them capable of understanding the data would be skeptical of the C in cagw atleast. Even funnier is they think weather is currently extreme, when it literally, provably is not. Unless the data we do have is wrong I guess.
Anticlimatic?
The post variously refers to Mr. Sisterson as a “scientist” and “senior manager”. Pardon my naivete, but I would think that the role of a “scientist” would be to dispassionately explore his field of study, objectively analyze the empirical data, and present the findings and possible implications in a reasonable and rational fashion; A “senior manager” of scientists would act to insure that the “scientists” of the organization fulfill this rightful role.
On the other hand, as I understand it, the role of a prostitute is to titillate, to excite, to stimulate through provocative dress and fashion.
Perhaps Mr. Sisterson should seriously consider a career change.
A “Climate Change” pimp?
I still wouldn’t buy whoever whoever or whatever he’s selling.
I don’t know, I associate “disruption” with a bit of inconvenience. I’m also living in Australia where “she’ll be right mate” will easily dispatch a bit of “disruption” threat.
How about “Future Climate Armageddon”? That should sort out “deniers” like myself! “Scientist say this weeks mild weather is another sign of FUTURE CLIMATE ARMAGEDDON!!” Please quit your jobs, turn off your lights and grow broccoli on your patio.
What about plant disruption? Don’t plants deserve some “Green” attention?
Well of course they will ratchet up the hysteria. You don’t get lucrative grants by for saying everything is OK. Just as on the news, crisis sells.
So we’re doomeder than ever?
I’m late to this one.
How about “Climate Catastrophobia”?
Oh wait. That’s what he’s trying to instill. The fear that any change in the weather is caused by Man and will kill us all……unless money and power are thrown our way.
How about “Climate Castraphobia”?
Oh wait. That’s what he’s suffering from. The fear that the message to fear “Climate (fill in the blank)” is becoming impotent.
I guess I can’t help him with a new name after all. 8-(
“Climate Denormalization”?
“Carbon’s Gone Wild!” (Would need a video.)
“Weather WTFing”?
Never stop your enemy when he is destroying himself.
Bring it on guys, more cowbell.
Sisterson has yet to explain what part of the scientific method includes changing the name of a hypothesis.
No one may ever see this but on The Storm Channel,,,er,,,The Weather Channel this morning the term “Climate Shock” was used. Shocking!
(“Climate Schtick”?)