{"id":371,"date":"2006-06-23T06:24:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T06:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-06-23T06:24:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T06:24:34","slug":"global-warming-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Frames"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick post while I have a connection.
\nWeather has been miserable this week. Was considering this the other day and developing the ongoing analysis of how we talk about climate change and weather events and whether global warming is caused by humans. (It’s a frame-related point, so those with Lakoff in their toolbox will get it easier.) Namely –
\nWe\/the media allows the debate over global warming to be framed in terms of scientific inquiry<\/b> – is there still, scientifically speaking, doubt over whether global warming is caused by human activity?
\n(Answer: yes, of course. That’s how science works. The doubt is massively diminished, but it’s still there, and that means certain organizations will have room to resist any controls on carbon emissions and Kyoto and so forth.)
\nThe frame in which we should be discussing this is one of risk assessment<\/b>. Is it acceptable to risk that global warming is caused by human activity?
\n(Answer: no. Not even remotely. This is the fate of the millions we’re talking about.)
\nTalking about it in terms of science assumes a much higher burden of proof than is appropriate. Allowing the debate to be framed in this way is making it much more difficult for those arguing for urgent change.
\n(The fact that, despite this unhelpful frame, we’re still winning the debate is a pretty clear sign of how serious things are getting.)
\n—
\nWorth a read: Making Light reads a 1939 book on social control<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick post while I have a connection. Weather has been miserable this week. Was considering this the other day and developing the ongoing analysis of how we talk about climate change and weather events and whether global warming is caused by humans. (It’s a frame-related point, so those with Lakoff in their toolbox will get … Continue reading Global Warming Frames<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-5Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}