- In Person Talk: Introduction to Climate ScienceJack Diamonds, New York, NY
This in-person slide show will be 40 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A and then 60 minutes of socializing. We'll have the back room of the bar to ourselves.
Jack Diamonds bar
140 East 27th St (about 100 yards east of Lexington)
in the back room (they serve food, so you can have dinner)Thursday, April 25th, 2024, at 7:00 pm
This event is sponsored by
Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL)
American Conservation Coalition
and
Conservative Climate ActivistsThis lecture is intended as an introduction to climate science, in particular with respect to the arguments made by climate skeptics.
In the spring of 2016, the movie "Climate Hustle" was introduced in theaters in a one-day showing. The central claim of the movie was that climate change was a "hustle", as in, a con or a hoax.
A Republican club that I belonged to went, but I had a conflict and couldn't make it.
That fall, I wanted to do a lecture for a science club I belong to about the arguments for and against the reality of global warming. To find out what the climate skeptics were saying, I bought the DVD and watched it. The movie is about 100 minutes long, making mostly back-to-back scientific arguments that global warming is not a thing.
I found the movie unpersuasive, to put it mildly, and wound up joining Citizens' Climate Lobby. I have gone to DC over a half-dozen times with them to lobby congress for climate action.
The copyright message in the DVD does not prohibit public showing of the movie, provided you don't charge admission. About 4 or 5 times, I have shown the movie to audiences of environmentalists, stopping every few minutes to explain how the movie was wrong (or, in some cases, how it was right). It makes for a good introduction to climate science, a tour of the climate debate.
Unfortunately, as the years went by and I learned more and more climate science, the presentation got longer and longer until it was three hours, which is more than most people are willing to sit through, so I changed the format -- I do a slide show paraphrasing the scientific arguments made by the movie, and rebut them. That got it back down to a 40-minute presentation, leaving 20 minutes afterward for Q & A.
In addition to watching and debunking the movie, I have spent years in conservative spaces on social media, debating climate science with climate skeptics, and have observations of how the debate has evolved over that time.
