https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a Made with an open mind en-us 2018-11-02 19:03:07 UTC 2025-12-19 06:46:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png kellyca2 https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/299960163 ""an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc."
 "Our food systems, our cities, our people and our very way of life developed within a stable range of climatic conditions on Earth," Gore has written. "Without immediate and decisive action, these favorable conditions on Earth could become a memory if we continue to make the climate crisis worse day after day after day."

]]> 2018-11-02 19:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/299960163 kellyca2 https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/299969227 That may seem like a paradox, but there’s a long history of “support among people of all partisan backgrounds for regulating pollution – basic things like clean water and clean air,” Professor Egan said. “To the extent global warming is framed that way, it raises support for policy interventions more than the abstract concept of ‘climate change."]]> 2018-11-02 19:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/299969227 kellyca2 https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/299971975 Many more Republicans are uncomfortable making accusations of corruption and conspiracy against so much of the scientific community, but they too have struggled to sustain an untenable position. ]]> 2018-11-02 19:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/299971975 luloffe https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/301212463 Yet, as liberals have yelled that the sky is falling, conservatives have plugged their own ears not only to ludicrous exaggerations, but also to the available facts.]]> 2018-11-06 20:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/301212463 luloffe https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/301216396 Scientific ignorance is not an excuse for refusing to stake out a position. Politicians rely on engineers to help them figure out which bridges are worth building, on physicists to suggest which defense projects are most feasible, and on biologists to better understand the threat of Ebola or Swine Flu. There is no reason why climate change should be different.]]> 2018-11-06 20:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/301216396 kellyca2 https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/301223042 Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, House speaker John Boehner, presidential candidates Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio, and rising star Senator Joni Ernst have all adopted the new talking point on the issue: "I'm not a scientist." This is an attempt to invoke ignorance in order to avoid embarrassment.]]> 2018-11-06 20:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/301223042 luloffe https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/302364936 In the past few decades have become increasingly convinced that climate change is real and is caused by humans.]]> 2018-11-08 22:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/302364936 luloffe https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/302366319 In the past few decades have become increasingly convinced that climate change is not real.]]> 2018-11-08 22:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kellyca2/91877znlow4a/wish/302366319