Making the case for tackling climate change
There’s an excellent article in a recent New Scientist, which makes a powerful case for rethinking the way climate change is communicated. While the article, by Bob Ward, is controversial, and may jar...
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I was at the excellent Blog Nation conference in London this weekend, organised by Liberal Conspiracy. While I think it’s hugely important that tackling climate change shouldn’t be seen as a party...
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Is climate change too academic?
Here’s an issue that, I think, says a lot about the challenges facing anyone campaigning or trying to move policy on climate change. Gallup’s annual tracker on climate change has a set of answers which...
View ArticleWhere we are now
With the number of polls I’ve written about here, it’s been a while since I’ve taken stock of the different results and what we can learn from them. Fortunately, MORI have produced (a few months ago) a...
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Is it wrong to campaign on climate change?
There’s a debate that’s just resurfaced about the value of public campaigns about climate change. Roughly speaking, one side is arguing that the only way to get people to take long-term sustainable...
View ArticleEnter Carbon Brief
Mid-way through last year, there was a series of articles and discussions about how climate campaigners could be more effective at promoting their message in an environment where they seemed to be...
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This time it’s personal
A nice little paper was published last month in Nature Climate Change, which needs to be taken seriously by anyone campaigning on climate change. The paper draws on the 2010 poll by the Understanding...
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Should new energy minister Ed Davey talk to the public about climate change?
Britain has a new energy and climate change minister. Ed Davey will have a packed ministerial in-tray, and among the files about nuclear power, shale gas and feed-in tariffs will be the question of...
View ArticleDo women really oppose fracking because they don’t understand science?
The new chair of the fracking industry body has annoyed a lot of people today by apparently saying women oppose shale gas extraction because they’re driven by instinct, not facts. In the Times (£)...
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