Thread by @Revkin

@GeoffreySupran @KA_Nicholas @johnfocook @colognav @NaomiOreskes 1. Great question⤴! I recommend widening the lens to capture #trustscience lessons from the #covid19 pandemic. See this fantastic paper by @FloydZhang93 on impacts of @nature's #Biden endorsement (thread includes @ArthurLupia's piece )

@GeoffreySupran @KA_Nicholas @johnfocook @colognav @NaomiOreskes @FloydZhang93 @Nature @ArthurLupia 2. Of course there is no yes/no answer to your debate. Hopefully that won't be the expectation! All climate scientists (or journalists) are also people, voters, citizens, who should advocate for whatever policies they see best... BUT...

@GeoffreySupran @KA_Nicholas @johnfocook @colognav @NaomiOreskes @FloydZhang93 @Nature @ArthurLupia 3. If the goal is building trust as a path to widening engagement and response, a key tactic is speaking in two sentences. "I study ice sheets. Here's what I know about #climatechange." "I'm a person who prefers a carbon tax/nuclear/solar." @KenCaldeira: revkin.substack.com/i/79692162/the…

@GeoffreySupran @KA_Nicholas @johnfocook @colognav @NaomiOreskes @FloydZhang93 @Nature @ArthurLupia @KenCaldeira 4. And of course climate scientists are like the rest of us - wonderfully varied in their human responses to #climatechange. Which @NASA scientist's climate activism do you embrace - @ClimateHuman's globalcitizen.org/en/content/pet… or @DrJamesEHansen's? archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs… ..

5. Varied personal responses to the #climatecrisis by climate-focused scientists are inevitable and ultimately adaptive - even if uncomfortable. #ResponseDiversity is a source of ecosystem resilience (and societies are parts of ecosystems). Elmqvist et al. ..

@GeoffreySupran @KA_Nicholas @johnfocook @colognav @NaomiOreskes @FloydZhang93 @Nature @ArthurLupia @KenCaldeira @NASA @ClimateHuman @DrJamesEHansen 6. I encourage folks to watch this @columbiaclimate #sustasinwhat episode (one of my faves) on Exploring Trust and Mistrust in Climate Science and Solutions pscp.tv/w/1dRKZNLyeEMKB @NaomiOreskes, "#Climatism" author #MikeHulme, trust scientist Gil Eyal and more..

@GeoffreySupran @KA_Nicholas @johnfocook @colognav @NaomiOreskes @FloydZhang93 @Nature @ArthurLupia @KenCaldeira @NASA @ClimateHuman @DrJamesEHansen @columbiaclimate 7. Three more ways here to watch our @columbiaclimate #SustainWhat discussion of trust, mistrust, and impact around climate science. earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/ex…

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