Hi Tomm,

Thanks for the comment.

I appreciate your thoughts and you have some good points. I am not understanding how your points explain how, even though 89% of Americans believe climate change is real, only 15% take action.

I agree that Carnegie’s book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” is a classic and if we all practiced his ideas, our discourse and progress would be better.

I agree that a lot of what appears to be happening with the climate change movement looks like claiming moral high ground and what appears to be, and what may be in fact, industrialization and commercialization, of solutions. Hence, people like Michael Moore create motion pictures that make it look like a conspiracy that flush the importance of coherent action away. There are plenty of solutions but so far, we haven’t been very crafty about making them sexy or palatable. Drawdown.org is probably the best solution-oriented organization, since our leaders are not coherently engaged. I would agree that virtual signalers don’t help. I always fo back to NASA and NOAA. They have been pointing to the research and models since the mid 80s when I was still a young lad.

There has been an enormous counter climate change movement that began with the oil companies, and laster, with shadow-special interest groups to disseminate doubt and misinformation. They have continuously done this to the tune of a billion dollars a year that far outpaces the clean energy interests that “contrarians” often point to. I write about them in other articles.

I have read Stoknes widely and own his “What we Think About” book. I don’t hear his saying that his barriers, which I write about in some other posts, are particular to and only apply to climate change. He is simply saying these are legitimate barriers for action on climate change. It would be a logical fallacy to say that he says the barriers only apply to climate change. I think he is smarter than that and I will stand corrected if I am wrong.

As a science major and lifetime student, I, like all good scientists, am a skeptic. And scientists will tell you that they are too. What over 90% of inherently skeptical climatologists agree that we are 1) heading into an ice age because of the tilt and wobble of the earth, and 2) the ice age will be superseded by extreme warming, and destabilization like we cannot imagine, then we should pay attention, and do what we can to reduce carbon impact. The fact is, as the article states, the YPCCC states that almost 90% of us agree that this is happening, yet we are not taking action. I have heard clearly that a lot of people 1) don’t know who to believe or where to get good information, and 2) they are losing trust do to so much misinformation and doubt that they can’t sort out. Maybe this goes back to your points that explain why this might be happening for some people.

To them, I suggest NASA.gov , and NOAA.gov . Then, VOTE.

Again, I appreciate your comments, and will check out your writing.