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Coal billionnaire sunk by vast metaphor 1 May 2012 | 07:16 pm
Oh what glorious and bizarre irony. Yesterday an Australian coal billionaire, Clive Palmer, announces that he is building a full size replica of The Titanic. This is Clive Palmer who utterly rejects c...
HOW TO TALK TO A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER (DISSENTER) 29 Mar 2012 | 08:02 pm
In this 20 minute video I suggest six strategies for talking to people who do not accept climate science. I argue strongly that one should avoid a debate about the data and content of the science, an...
THE INGENIOUS WAYS WE AVOID BELIEVING IN CLIMATE CHANGE- A VIDEO PRESENTATION 10 Jan 2011 | 06:35 pm
I post a video presentation that provides accessible (and hopefully entertaining) summary of current research into the psychology of climate change- in particular the key question explored by this blo...
QATAR WORLD CUP 2022: A COLOSSAL WRECK- BOUNDLESS AND BARE. 9 Dec 2010 | 01:09 am
Guest blogger, Terence Blacker decries the ‘Ozymandian’ stupidity of holding the 2022 World Cup in air conditioned stadiums in Qatar, one of the world’s hottest countries and FIFA’s feeble greenwashi...
ONE REPORT- TWO HEADLINES 2 Dec 2010 | 07:48 am
How does one scientific report generate two entirely contradictory stories and headlines? This is a perfect example of how information on climate change is filtered by the newsmedia and distorted to f...
MORE GLARING JUXTAPHOTISIONS 20 Nov 2010 | 08:47 pm
As noted in my posting before last (‘ Up in Lights” ) it is the juxtapositions of images and messages that are often most enlightening about our mass confusion and denial – I call them juxtaphotisions...
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE US MID-TERM ELECTIONS 4 Nov 2010 | 08:10 am
Even with the results still coming in, it already clear that the US elections have been a disaster for climate change. From the perspective of the psychology of denial, the elections contained two imp...
PHOTOSHOP CLIMATE IMAGES ‘FEED XENOPHOBIA’ AND DENIAL 29 Oct 2010 | 02:23 am
The desire to stir a debate around climate change is not an excuse for sensationalist images and language that demean immigrants. The effects of climate change are so hard to imagine that we should ...
UP IN LIGHTS 16 Oct 2010 | 12:49 am
When campaign organisations put their climate change messages up in lights alongside commercial neon advertising the result is a bizarre dissonance that does nothing for their message but says a lot m...
10:10 No Pressure Splatter Ad- so how could it have been better? 4 Oct 2010 | 08:49 pm
Last week 10:10 , an international network of individuals, organisations and businesses pledging to reducing their emissions by 10% in the year 2010, released a promotion video that has turned out to ...
