5 talking points for 'kinda sceptical' friends & family on climate change
Links to Share with 'Fence Sitting' or 'Climate Skeptic-Lite' Friends & Family
We’ve all had that conversation - and don’t mean with the hard-core climate denier as sadly they have become post-factual - but the milder sort who thinks there’s an actual debate going on or has ingested a couple of denialist talking points that ‘hey the scientists might be wrong’ or ‘how come it snowed this winter’? Sadly (because climate change is happening now) we’re seeing the impacts already in ways that exist outside scientific papers or studies and in our real lives. These points are here to underline that fact and would need explining away with some new theory if not climate change:
Climate change is impacting education - schools in South Sudan had to close because heat waves made learning impossible.
US ski resorts are having issues because there is not enough snow - and it is costing them! So far more than $5 billion in lower visits between 2000 to 2019.
The maple syrup season in coming earlier each year as the climate changes - and its now weeks earlier and causing issues.
There has been, for over a decade now, a growing area of archeology finding amazing things falling out of melting glaciers. Things that have been trapped in there for thousands of years. Now climate change is melting them, we’re finding new things all the time.
And the final one for this list - in Japan they have been keeping records of the peak when the peak cherry blossom is in Kyoto for over 1200 years. Plot that data out and it is clear that something is happening to the climate:
Image - Japan has been keeping track of cherry blossoms since the year 812 BCE (Source)
This is just a tiny sample of real-world impacts - all separate from politics, environmental campaigns and climate models or wherever else they might think is getting in the way of reality.
It is happening, happening now as predicted by climate science and the range of impacts is unprecedented - as predicted by climate science. If all this is not climate change - what is it?