Guardian: A salon in Sydney is spearheading workshops for hairdressers on how to steer small talk about the weather into conversations about global heating. … More than 400 hairdressers have attended workshops as part of a project called A Brush With Climate…During the sessions, hairdressers hear the basics of climate science and get to role play how conversations might go. They also take one of the posters back to their own salons. … Dr. Hannah McCann, a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, is researching the social and emotional role that hairdressers have with their clients. She says the hours at a time spent together, and the fact there’s plenty of touching, makes the relationship different from almost any other. …
Garcia tells a story about one regular client, a mother of two. After having the climate chat and talking about solar power and ethical banking, she left happy. “She came back eight weeks later and she’s made all these changes. She was really proud.”
By: Admin – Climate Depot
Excerpts: Inside this chic Sydney hair salon, the chat between stylists and clients could be much the same as in any other hairdressers around the world. Some small talk. The ubiquitous and occasionally mundane chat about holidays and traffic. For regulars, the conversation can move to the deeply personal before you can say semi-tint or shag cut.
In fact, there is only one easily missable clue in the front window that conversations inside Paloma might, when the occasion arises, be a bit different. A poster reads: “This salon chats about love, life & climate action.”
“The weather is the hook. You can take a cue from that,” says Prof Lesley Hughes, one of two climate scientists who have helped run workshops to give hairdressers the tools for times when the conversation turns to the existential.
“You can show the science until you’re blue in the face but what can be more effective are people who you trust talking about it. It’s important to show it’s not a subject to be afraid of.”
More than 400 hairdressers have attended workshops as part of a project called A Brush With Climate being driven by Paloma’s owner, Paloma Rose Garcia.
During the sessions, hairdressers hear the basics of climate science and get to role play how conversations might go. They also take one of the posters back to their own salons.
“We’re relationship builders,” says Garcia. “We suggest some easy ways to introduce climate to the conversation and the biggest one is definitely the weather. But we encourage all the hairdressers to make it their own story.”
Some guests, she says “feel helpless and they’re a bit embarrassed that they don’t understand the science”, but want to know more. Mostly, clients accept the basis for climate action but don’t know what to do next.
Garcia tells a story about one regular client, a mother of two. After having the climate chat and talking about solar power and ethical banking, she left happy.
“She came back eight weeks later and she’s made all these changes. She was really proud. But also she’d been talking to all her girlfriends about it too. It might just be a 20-minute conversation but it can be really powerful.”
“Some women keep their hairdressers for a long time and they’ll tell them their secrets – they’re the unpaid therapist,” says Smith.
Not every chat – or even most of them – will be about climate change, say Smith and Garcia. As pseudo-experts in human social interactions, hairdressers tend to know when it’s time to go quiet or change the subject.
“For women, hair is so much a part of our identity and there’s a lot of trust that goes into that. You’re letting someone touch your hair and so you have to like them. That trust allows them to start that conversation.
Social researcher Dr Rebecca Huntley, author of How To Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference, also talks to the hairdressers at the workshops.
Huntley says hairdressers can reach important segments of the Australian public – people who make up about 40% of the population and are either concerned or cautious about climate, but don’t dismiss it or deny it’s a problem.
“We know those people tend to avoid newspapers or books or any information really that broadcasts itself as being about climate change,” says Huntley.
“But when we ask those people who they want to hear from about climate change they often say their friends and family. They’ll say climate change is a problem and they want to do more, but they want to hear that from people who are personally relevant to them and are relatable.”
Dr Hannah McCann, a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, is researching the social and emotional role that hairdressers have with their clients.
She says the hours at a time spent together, and the fact there’s plenty of touching, makes the relationship different from almost any other.
“It’s both social, with the chit-chat, but also people can end up disclosing a lot of things. I’ve theorised that’s because of the intimacy. You might talk to your Uber driver, but they’re not touching your hair.”
They’ll be as good as any other climate expert..
Hairdressers and Barbers — We avoid them.
In the early 2000’s the wife’s hairdresser never stopped talking. Mainly about her latest boyfriend or some health problem. I met her: She was a very attractive young talking machine. This seems common among hairdressers my wife used, and she couldn’t take the blabbering anymore. … So for the past 20 years I have dyed my wife’s hair. It takes me 15 minutes, done exactly like a hairdresser does it, so it does not look dyed. The chemicals cost only about $3 each time. A professional dye job today would be at least $75.
My last professional haircut was in 1972 after my first year of college. The barber “scalped” my long hair, rather than giving me a trim, as I had requested. With my eyeglasses off, I didn’t realize how much he hated long hair on boys. I bought a professional electric hair trimmer the next week, and never went back to any barber since then. It takes under ten minutes to give myself a haircut. Not exactly rocket science. My barber used to talk about horse racing with some old cronies who hung out in his shop. Maybe he was a bookie?
Your UBER driver might not be touching your hair but if you’re young enough and female enough there is a President who will snarf it
Too late for Biden to sniff my hair
I donated my hair to science
Got a big tax deduction
The IRS is suspicious.
Lookout – the IRS will weaponize hair, and pay a visit like Matt Taibbi (Musks Twitter Files guy) got this week!
Heck, I thought you were older than me! Guess not if you started college in ’72. I’m a real geezer- now 73.
The best hairdresser I know is my wife: She haircut our 5 kids for 25 years, myself included. Thus we spared a lot of money.
I’ve never had a “professional haircut”. My grandmother was the first licensed female barber in the state of Connecticut (1910). She cut my my hair until my mother took over, then my wife. My wife’s grandfather was also a barber. Maybe it’s genetic?
After 74 years, just can’t imagine anyone else doing it…
Air-heads have to be filled with something, so climate caterwauling is best-fit.
“They’ll be as good as any other climate expert..”
Yup. A climate hairdresser. I’m quite liking that phrase.
“Dr. Hannah McCann, a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, is researching the social and emotional role that hairdressers have with their clients.”
Looks like the good Doctor learned her stuff there. I’m more troubled about the fact that there is a lady with a PhD in this wifty poofty subject graduating empty headed clones of herself. There is no way to rehab the mess in Western Universities. They have to cut them out of the system and build new institutions from the ground up.
If my barber tried to propagandize me about anything, I’d tell him to zip it or I’ll find a quiet barber.
Just start asking him inconvenient questions about actual climate reality
I’d find a new barber. I don’t get my scientific or political opinions from those whose profession requires 2 weeks of training and a heartbeat.
If this comes to America, it will be added to the list of expensive training courses required to get a state license certificate to work in the profession. Will climate psychologists teach the courses?
Gee, Goebbels must be doing a high-five from the grave! All I have to say is if I saw any kind of poster about CAGW on the wall of my salon, I’d find another hair dresser.
If your hairdresser or barber did start in about the subject, another option would be to turn it around on them and ask them if they think it’s OK that the government can intrude on people’s lives so personally. Like telling them what kind of car they can buy, what kind of stove or furnace they can have, limiting their ability to travel, etc. Then ask the hairdresser if she/he believes in personal freedom, and leave it at that….
Brainwashing Beauticians! What’s next!?
Joseph Goebbels would be amazed at the reach of current-day propagandists.
“”chic””
And there you have it; it’s- true to form – a very middle class, bourgeois thing
Okay, prep and research before you go to the hair appointment and start asking questions like what’s in the hair care products, where the products came from, was child labor involved in the product, what plastic products are being used in the salon, and where the copper came from in the hair dryer. Then ask for the name of their climate psychologist.
I hope they never ask if the person wants a
blow drywith that hair do as well, they will end up walking out with a guilt complexI would rather get my daily dose of doomster dogma from a hairdresser than straight from the hirsute mouth of a certain Penn State Distinguished Professor of Climatey Stuff, the state of whose wispy climate Scientist beard suggests he is as little talented in barbering as he is in proper Statistics
I’m sure the State Penn has a regular hairdresser!
According to Douglas Adams, hairdressers were selected to be passengers on Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B which was programmed to crash into its designated planet, namely Earth. They evidently survived and wreak havoc to this day.
Many argue that it was a bad move
telephone hygeinists however seem to have gone extinct??
Do not argue or worse, disagree with the hairdresser at work, whatever subject. Wait until the job is done … 😉
When caught in a tight spot like that I say this: “OH! I agree with you, and I think we NEED to do more…but first we need funding.” And ask the hairdresser if s/he has solar panels on the roof/yard. I bet not,
This might be an opportunity for any Aussie skeptics to give their barbers or beauticians an education on CO2 and climate change. For example, ask them about the effect of CO2 in the air on crop yields and food production, and how it makes plants more drought-resistant.
There’s a time and a place for everything. Maybe they had a hot summer in Sydney this year, but there was just a foot of snow in Salt Lake City on the sixth day of spring. If some ignorant barber tried climate-change propaganda here, I would ask them how they would get to work without a diesel-powered snowplow clearing the roads.
If I know anything about that kind of service business it’s you need to focus on the customer and talk about whatever the customer wants to talk about.
That’s old-school service standards.
Now it’s all –
“Me, me, me, me, I, I, I, I. When a woman talks, you have to listen.”
And if it is a Trans Man then even the Woman has to listen
They are weaponizing hairdressers. A sign of desperation?
How do you like your Carbon? Permed or blow dried?
“”More killer tornados will hit the South as global warming creates dangerous new weather patterns, study says
The study used computer simulations to predict what will happen by the end of the century with different levels of global carbon pollution levels.””
https://fortune.com/2023/03/28/tornado-supercells-more-frequent-southern-us-global-warming-study/
Carbon pollution- what a giveaway!
Strange that all the data to date points in the opposite direction…frequency of EF3+ tornadoes seems to be stable or slightly going down not up.
Still, when you are a “climate scientist” and activist, never let data get in the way of a good model. Feynman would be so proud…..
–data points in the opposite direction –
Because tornadoes typically form where there is a contrast of cold and warm air (south central USA, for example), if the characteristics of those air masses become more alike as expected with northern regions warming faster, expectations for tornadoes should decrease.
I have never understood why the Climate Cult™ claimed otherwise.
That study is evidence of nothing more than what modelers can simulate (a fake atmosphere) by feeding in the mathematical equations and information they choose based on exploiting junk science to create outcomes which support their personal beliefs.
Authentic science gives greatest weight to observations and empirical data. When forced to choose between observations and the simulations that contradict them, many of today’s mainstream climate scientists pick the fake atmosphere! That makes sense for modelers because they convince themselves that they are right since producing model output is what they do.
Recent Tornadoes are Due to Unusually Cold Weather
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/05/recent-tornadoes-are-due-to-unusually-cold-weather/
95% of Climate Models Agree: The Observations Must be Wrong
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/95-of-climate-models-agree-the-observations-must-be-wrong/
So their computer model runs 180 degrees opposite of reality. Tells you everything you need to know.
I bet they really understand the science!
Better than most climate activists anyway!
I don’t get it- what’s the motivation for this? What’s in it for the hairdressers?
Force the owners to give top-down orders and training to those who do the actual work.
Virtue brownie points, it’s what people do now apparently.
I tell the barber that I don’t have my hearing aids in and they just shut up and get on with the job.
Any service employee who feels compelled to lecture me while performing their job will get a counter-lecture on the junk science they’re dispensing along with a discussion of the economic consequences they will likely face under the various net-zero agendas. Salons are a luxury that poor people won’t have money to indulge in. What will be their backup plan be when I stop coming?
i stopped going in part due to a neck injury but mostly because a colour(last one done by a salon) cost me 75 in 1979, so I DIY for 10 or less let the short style grow out so its easy to trim ends, I would have saved MANY thousands by now as some salons its 200+ for cut n colour I gather
More stupidity out of Australia.
You are on the loosing ground there.
Female hairdressers are the original NNI chatbots.
p.s. NN is opposite to artficial, you could try ‘larutan on’.
There was a time when Barber shops were musical :
Wasn’t Norman Rockwell great?
the best. various collection editions sent to relatives.
Is there a climate crisis, or isn’t there? Only her hairdresser knows for sure!
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/768278-hannah-mccann
Now, THAT’S climate science!
Find an expert???
Yup, Uni d’Melbourne Faculty and Grad student profile listing is called “find an expert.” I don’t know why. I suppose to aid in the search for experts of the emerging ruling class.