An irony of the California wildfires: "Global warming has all kinds of negative effects, but one of them is NOT the strong easterly flow that drives the big wildfires we have seen in recent years," because models predict the effect to weaken with warming https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/extreme-winds-in-california-and-soon-in.html …
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We really need to find a way to depoliticize the climate issue quickly, and focus the political battle to where it should be, on how to respond to climate change that everyone universally accepts as real. But things are going in the opposite direction right now.
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A corollary of "believe the science" is that you have to believe it even when it's politically inconvenient
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You're kind of proving my point by attacking Mass's politics to discredit his science
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Cliff Mass hold up the American Conservation Coalition as the best way to address climate change — a free-market, republican endorsing dark money organization, currently campaigning against Elizabeth Warren. Way to de-politicize it. https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-real-climate-debate.html …
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Dig a little deeper on Cliff before you go all in. He’s a respected scientist, yes, and an interesting voice in the community, sure. But he’s also a Professional Contrarian and sometimes takes really stupid positions that suspiciously appeal to other old whites dudes.
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The trouble is not that he's anti-science (far from it). It's that the framing is often strawman, and taking the neutral middle ground is unhelpful messaging. Example: going to great lengths to point out 1-2C increase is "not the end of civilization" is true, but not the point.
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