Perception is how you create. Whatever it is that you think you deserve,
will likely be met with a corresponding experience.
The Ohio River Dried Up in 1908, The Dust Bowl Happen in 1936,
The Blizzard of 1978 in Ohio Great Yellowstone Fire 1988
which I haven’t experienced since.
Apocalypticism is the expectation of an apocalypse or “a doctrine concerning an imminent end of the world,” according to Merriam-Webster.
Apocalyptic thinking, in turn, can place a time limit on the public’s perception of climate change, adding a call to action in the climate crisis conversation, the researchers said.
Steven Beschloss, one of the leaders of the project, said the idea of some kind of inevitable apocalypse has always been present in the minds of Americans, but has recently been associated with the way people talk about climate change.
Beschloss is the senior director for narrative development at ASU and a professor of practice in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
An article published in Times Higher Education and Medium, written by Beschloss and religion and technology professor Gaymon Bennett, states that this research project is intended to better grasp the kinds of apocalyptic narratives that have shaped American thinking and action.
“People have notions about the end of times — whether that was something exciting and even entertaining, or whether it was an idea of calamity and a dire future that caused people to be overwhelmed,” Beschloss said. “We felt, sort of in both cases, that it leads to people doing nothing.”
He said there has recently been a spike in catastrophic rhetoric replacing passive talk about climate change in the media.
One example is The Guardian’s style-guide change, urging reporters to use the words “climate crisis” or “climate emergency” rather than “change.”
Beschloss said he does not believe there is one right way to approach the conversation about climate change, but believes media outlets should focus on getting the news out in a way that is both truthful and encourages as many people as possible to act.
“Some people, if you raise an alarm and it’s particularly scary, it might cause them to act,” he said. “In other cases, they may be alarmed and find it scary and then just turn the other way and do nothing.”
Beschloss said that while he believes the terms “crisis” and “emergency” may be the most accurate ways to describe the current state of the planet, the most important goal right now should be “for people, in whatever way is comfortable, to recognize the urgency.”
There is a noticeable generational divide in the way that people talk about the climate crisis, he said.
“I mean it’s truly alarming that you have a lot of older people who might say, ‘I’ll be gone,’” Beschloss said. “I think for a lot of people, they’ve been led to think that the problem is sometime in the future, and that oftentimes can lead people to not pay attention to what’s actually going on right in front of them.”
ASU’s Global Futures Laboratory is also supporting the project.
Peter Schlosser, the vice president and vice provost of the Global Futures Laboratory, said the goal of the University lab is to “not just understand how the world works and what kind of pressures we are under, but also to engage in finding options for getting out from underneath that pressure.”
Schlosser said that apart from Beschloss’ “Apocalypticism” project, the Global Futures Laboratory has created formal structures to raise awareness and inform the public about ways they can help combat climate change.
One of these structures is the Narrative Storytelling Initiative, directed by Beschloss.
Beschloss said the purpose of the Narrative Storytelling Initiative, in relation to his upcoming “Apocalypticism” project, is to use different types of storytelling to provoke action against climate change.
Hilairy Hartnett, an associate professor and sustainability scholar at ASU, said that although talk of climate change can often seem “doom and gloom,” she has witnessed a desire in her students to do all they can to stop climate change.
“I think that young people, our students here at ASU, they get it,” Hartnett said. “They really care and want to make a difference, and I think that’s one of the most positive things we can say right now is that young people who are just at the beginning of their careers are really interested in this problem.”
Clarification: The previous version of this article included a medium post with the study. The study was featured in Times Higher Education, the story has been updated to reflect this change.
This Has Become A Backward Country.
How are we to square the lack of action to date
with climate rhetoric at a fever pitch?
BY Roger Pielke
I have been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001, where
I teach and write on a diverse range of policy and governance issues related to science, innovation, sports. I have degrees in mathematics, public policy and political science. My books include The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics published by Cambridge University Press (2007), The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell you About Global Warming (2010, Basic Books) and The Edge: The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports (Roaring Forties Press, 2016). My most recent book is The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change (2nd edition, 2018, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes).
For some, the gap between deeds and words can be explained by the enormous political power of climate deniers. Yet, this argument is difficult to square with evidence. In a poll released this week by YouGov of public opinion on climate change across 28 countries, the United States has the most climate skeptics, with 15% of the public, and all others were at 10% or less. In fact, the survey reveals that far more people were aligned with the rhetoric of catastrophe, with a majority in every country believing that “climate change is likely to cause serious economic damage, destroy cities and start wars.”
The dwindling number of climate skeptics has been overshadowed by calls for action. The youth climate movement has gained enormous traction, with a global strike planned for tomorrow and the major news media has come together to advocate together for climate action. Climate change is among the most successful social movements in recent history. Sure, there remain skeptics and deniers, but if political action on any issue required 100% agreement, nothing would ever get done.
A better explanation for the gap between action and calls for action is the absence of workable policy proposals at the scale of what is needed to start making progress on accelerating decarbonization. Much of what we will see tomorrow with the planned climate strike and next week at the United Nations will represent a victory of exhortation over workable policy.
Demands for action cannot lead to actual action in the absence of viable options. Viability has technical, political, social elements, and more. Scientists have done their job in calling attention to the problems posed by climate change now and in the future. Political advocates, including youth activists, have also done their job in helping to raise the salience of the issue among the public. The job now sits with politicians and those who support them.
But demanding “action” is not enough. Politicians need policy options in order for action to occur. Climate policy is incredibly complex, and options won’t simply emerge from legislative halls. More effort is needed from policy experts to develop, propose, debate and test new paths forward.
Some climate advocates seem to believe that we simply need to get new politicians who can better support the policies that have been tried – and repeatedly failed – for the past generation. Perhaps a better option is to open up the climate discussion to a broader set of voices and views in order to generate options that can be implemented and show results in the short term, based on the politicians we have rather than the ones climate advocates might prefer.
PwC tells us that we need to average a greater than 11% rate of decarbonization for the remainder of this century to achieve deep decarbonization. No one knows how to do this. We are currently at a 1.6% annual rate of decarbonization. If we are to ever get close to 11%+ we will have to learn how to achieve 2%, 3% 4% and so on. It is far more important to figure out how to start meeting the decarbonization challenge, than it is to know how it will end.
The gap between words and deeds on climate policy exists – at least in part – because we have failed to prioritize the short term and the next steps we should take to start what will be a journey of this century. So long as we favor exhortation to act in the absence of practical actions that can meet real-world tests of policy and politics, climate change will continue to be a potent political symbol, but with little connection to actual decarbonization of the global economy.
This uh church in this particular case has been involved in politics & power. Progressive is nothing but OPPRESSIVE! See Totalitarian. Julia Meloni’s new book The St. Gallen Mafia provides a valuable service to readers curious about the origins of the current pontificate. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she fills in the picture of the St. Gallen Mafia, a group of influential liberal prelates who plotted for years to elect a progressive-minded pope.
Lets stick w/the bible, line by line, verse by verse.
FORGET POLITICS!
The Story Behind the Pope’s Election – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
I think that natural immunity is safest. After watching @jamiedlux video on the inventor of the PCR test, it revealed a lot about HIV and how the test duplicates something that is not harmful to make it show as a disease when it isn’t. It’s called INTOLERABLE GENIUS (rumble.com)
The Toxicity of Anticancer drugs : Free Download published in 1990, references a lot of Anthony Fauci’s studies from the 70’s. Weird, being he was pushing AZT so hard, if he knew a lot about the toxicity of these kinds of drugs. Don’t give away information about your genetic code. It is the last vestige of privacy that we all have.
Be advised that Rite Aid and other pharmacies are using Google subsidiary C19 PCR to do human genetic testing called operation baseline. 23andMe to Use DNA Tests to Make Cancer Drugs – Bloomberg
After 6 Months J & J Vax 
is effectiveness in 3%.YES, that’s 3%
Study below
Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in 620,000 U.S. Veterans, February 1, 2021 to August 13, 2021 | medRxiv
I can never find a way to argue down those who don’t believe, but I believe in almighty God. All knowing and all forgiving. I believe that good shall be triumphant in the end and that all evil shall be vanquished.
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”. ― Mark Twain.
Trusting in God’s plan is the only secret I know to avoid living with anxiety or worry … is having the certainty that my future is in his hands !!!
“God is our refuge and strength, our ready help in tribulations.” Psalm 46: 1
DR. RYAN COLE INTERVIEWED BY THE HIGHWIRE WITH DEL BIGTREE « Aletho News
Dr. Ryan Cole featured on The Highwire – America’s Frontline Doctors (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
In The End [Official HD Music Video] – Linkin Park – YouTube
Cleveland weather history: find weather details for any date since 1871 – cleveland.com