The communication of basic climate change knowledge to influence the average person:
Simple words.
Short sentences.
No math.
Few numbers.
Short sentences.
No math.
Few numbers.
Here’s a first draft of my attempt to summarize climate “science” in simple language:
There were quite a few cool centuries from 1300 to 1850.
The slight warming since 1850 is good news for people and green plants.
The increase of CO2 in the air since 1850 is good news for green plants.
There has never been a correlation between CO2 levels and average temperature.
There is no scientific proof CO2 is more than a minor factor in climate change.
Climate model games have been predicting global warming doom for over 40 years.
How many decades do the models have to be wrong before people stop listening?
Real scientists know Earth is always warming or cooling.
In the past, based on written anecdotal evidence, most people liked warm centuries, and hated cool centuries.
Global warming is something to celebrate.
Don’t people often travel to warm climates for vacations?
If warming stops, there can only be global cooling.
Global cooling is something to fear.
15,000 years ago Manhattan was under miles of ice.
No one knows why that happened.
No one knows why the ice melted.
No one knows if it will happen again.
Climate change is not something that started 50 years ago.
It has been happening for all 4.5 billion years of earth’s existence.
Be thankful for a degree or two of warming since 1850.
Hope for more warming in the future.
And speaking for the green plants, more CO2 (plant food) in the air would be great too.
There are many things in the world to worry about.
Often not the things politicians tell you to worry about.
Climate change is something to celebrate — not worry about.
But you can start worrying if the climate starts getting colder.