A Climate Change Advocate’s Guide to Communicating With Skeptics
A Climate Change Advocate’s Guide to Communicating With Skeptics or How to Approach Climate Skeptics Without Losing Your Argument I’m not really sure when or where it happened, but at some point, we lost civil discourse in our country. President Obama said that, and I agree. But it seems like although we have acknowledged a lack of civility, we’ve done nothing about it. This is no more evident that in discussions about climate change. I will admit that I’m a skeptic for a number of reasons. First and foremost, I find it hard to believe that man, created by God, would have the power to destroy what God created on such a large scale. A conservative talk show host I used to listen to, Steve Deace ( www.stevedeace.com ), once said that to be truly able to successfully convince others to your side, you must engage in three-dimensional thinking: 1) Know why you believe what you believe, 3) Know why others believe what they believe, and ...