How Should We Talk About Climate Change?

Sunday, February 19, 2017: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Room 210 (Hynes Convention Center)
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
one potentially effective approach is to find messages who share their worldview, and/ or to stress solutions whose implications are likely to be viewed as acceptable to people who might otherwise be skeptical of climate science. Katherine Hayhoe—a climate scientist who is also an evangelical Christian—has taken the first approach. Various people have experimented with the latter. Naomi Oreskes will speak of her experiences attempting to navigate climate change denial