A Second Opinion on Climate Disease

Posted by: WilliamCalvin, 21:28 GMT le 26 décembre 2011

Here's a 45' YouTube talk on climate "denial" (or is it avoidance?).

I don't often get a chance to play psychologist (though a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science) but psychological factors are now playing a key role in our failure to address the looming climate crisis.

While analyzing what's going on the psychology, I'll summarize the climate science that's being denied, including the knock-on consequences of global overheating that we're already suffering from.

Categories:Climate Change Politics

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What to Do About Climate

Posted by: WilliamCalvin, 21:18 GMT le 26 décembre 2011

For physicians, the window of opportunity for intervening successfully has become part of their training; they know how fleeting an opportunity can be. So, as a YouTube 56' talk, here's a "second opinion" about the climate diagnosis, the prognosis if untreated, and what treatments might actually fix the climate problem—rather than merely delaying civilization's collapse by a few decades.

Categories:Climate Change Drought Flood Fire

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