Climate science does its best to reduce the uncertainty surrounding climate change, and as our actions now will ultimately change the outcome, the level of severity related to a warming world is still up for debate, but the range of possible outcomes narrows day-by-day. The mainstream climate science confidently states two things: 1. if left... Continue Reading →
Climate change and why it’s important for us to worry about things we can’t control
To believe in climate change is to believe that climate change will cause harm. None of us will ever see climate change in its entirety. Instead, climate change is a statistically driven cascade of events that will collide with each of us through a variety of indirect ways. The scientific study of climate change gives... Continue Reading →
Denial runs dry
Science doesn’t deal in absolutes. Instead, science is the process. Scientists (the people that science) use doubt in established explanations of how the world works to create new theories that attempt to improve upon the old. New theories are rigorously tested, rejected theories are consigned to the history books, while theories that doubt cannot reasonably... Continue Reading →
In search of the climate hesitant
Beliefs held by others are always more complicated than we like to admit. For vaccine communication we’ve long known that the “pro-” or “anti-” vaccine dichotomy isn’t much help when studying how to actually increase vaccine uptake. Sure, behaviour for any one vaccination is binary (either someone has had the vaccine, or they have not),... Continue Reading →