A talk by Andrew Revkin of http://ProPublica.org

1. Johnnycashproject.com
Reveal

2. Mario Molina
Communicating on Climate in an Uncertain
Communication Climate

4. IGBP

5. @keeling_curve

7. Populationaction.org

16. 1983 111111111

17. 1983 111111111

18. 1985 111111111

19. 1985 1988

22. Perhaps earth scientists of the future will
name this new post-Holocene era for its
causative element -- for us. We are
entering an age that might someday be
referred to as, say, the Anthrocene. After
all, it is a geological age of our own
making. The challenge now is to find a
way to act that will make geologists of
the future look upon this age as a
remarkable time, a time in which a
species began to take into account the
long-term impact of its actions.
j.mp/92warmbook

23. Matthew Fontaine Maury, ~1855: “[T]o the right-
minded mariner, and to him who studies the physical
relations of earth, sea, and air, the atmosphere is
something more than a shoreless ocean, at the bottom
of which he creeps along.... It is an inexhaustible
magazine, marvellously adapted for many benign and
beneficent purposes.
“Upon the proper working of this machine depends the
well being of every plant and animal that inhabits the
earth; therefore the management of it, its movements,
and the performance of its offices, cannot be left to
chance.”
Me, 1992: Now we have arrived at a time when,
voluntarily or involuntarily, humans are indeed
"managing" the atmosphere. We had better manage it
well.
j.mp/92warmbook

25. The Shapers of “News”
Tyranny of the ‘Peg’
Lure of the Front-Page Thought
Tyrannies of Space/Time
Tyranny of Balance
Lure of Conflict and debate

26. Paucity of data leads to overabundance of assertion.
Argument, edge and policy relevance
lead to media interest
Too often content to be “right for a day”

31. museumvictoria.com.au

32. There is no “we”…

34. Girding for a climate fight?
Pick your
physics Nobelist.
• Nobe
CulturalCognition.net

36. High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants….
Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes
below this point.

39. mind

41. Design? Manage? DECIDE??

44. j.mp/epaheriberto

45. “Coordinated manipulation of at least six
variables is necessary to maintain stability
for 200 years or so.”

46. We lack a cultural narrative that says sustainability is really important. We
have a cultural narrative that says murder is wrong. We don’t have a cultural
narrative that says managing our planet in a way that allows us to live on it as
long as we can is probably the most important thing.
“Coordinated manipulation of at least six
variables is necessary to maintain stability
for 200 years or so.”

47. Old Goals

48. Woe is me
350
80% by 2050
<2 Degrees

49. December, 2015

50. j.mp/unepco2gap

51. j.mp/unepco2gap

52. j.mp/unepco2gap
They assume the blue
“safe” emissions drop can
occur even as populations
and resource appetites
soar in Africa and South
Asia.
750 million >
NIGERIA (U.N. 2015 projection)

53. New Goals

54. New Goals
Traits

56. hhnaturemuseum.org

57. Woe is me

58. Bend

59. Bend
Billy Parish, 2005 Energy Action Coalition

60. Bend
Billy Parish, 2005 Energy Action Coalition
Billy Parish, 2014 joinmosaic.com

61. Paul Kench George Steinmetz
Bend

62. Fill in this blank
@theWCS welikia.org
Bend

63. Stretch

64. Prospective Design – Houses, Ecosystems
riverarchitects.com j.mp/seariseconservation
Stretch

65. Stretch

66. Taylorguitars.com
Stretch

67. Stretch

68. Stretch

69. Reach

70. IPCC to its authors

71. j.mp/wmorevkin

72. Known Unknowables

74. Escape from the “Nerd Loop”
Randy Olson @abtagenda

75. #

76. #

77. Noise
#planetworks
#iamascientistbecause
#manthropocene
#farmhack
#deepuncertainty
#birdclass

78. Signal
#planetworks
#iamascientistbecause
#manthropocene
#farmhack
#deepuncertainty
#birdclass

79. WARMIST!
DENIER!
Beyond the shouting match

80. Climate disputes
hide energy and resilience agreement

81. Support for a cap & trade policy

82. Support for providing rebates for
purchases of solar panels
and fuel-efficient vehicles

83. Support for requiring 45 mpg fuel
efficiency across vehicle fleets,
even at a $1,000 price premium.

84. j.mp/yaleclimatemaps

85. j.mp/yaleclimatemaps

86. j.mp/yaleclimatemaps

87. j.mp/yaleclimatemaps

88. John D. Sutter / CNN “2 Degrees”
Find the Denier: Oil-Patch America

89. Teach

90. The new classroom
j.mp/pacedocs

91. The new classroom

92. The new classroom?
Nature: j.mp/riskschool

93. The new classroom

94. Reveal

95. Reveal

96. Reveal
Cafee.wvu.edu theICCT.org

97. Reflect

98. Designing discourse!
@USGSjwp
Reflect

99. Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience
Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm University
Nov. 2003, Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment
The diversity of responses to environmental change among species
contributing to the same ecosystem function, which we call response
diversity, is critical to resilience. Response diversity is particularly important
for ecosystem renewal and reorganization following change….
We should pay special attention to response diversity when planning
ecosystem management and restoration, since it may contribute considerably
to the resilience of desired ecosystem states against disturbance,
mismanagement, and degradation.
j.mp/responsediversity

100. Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience
Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm University
Nov. 2003, Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment
The diversity of responses to environmental change among people
contributing to the same social function, which we call response diversity,
is critical to resilience. Response diversity is particularly important for
ecosystem and social renewal and reorganization following change….
We should pay special attention to response diversity when planning
ecological and social management and restoration, since it may
contribute considerably to the resilience of desired ecosystem and social
states against disturbance, mismanagement, and degradation.
j.mp/responsediversity

102. Data & Values: “You can’t get an ought from an is.”
j.mp/dotvatican

103. The Virtues of “Mundane Science”
Avoidance of the mundane sphere has been a continuing
characteristic of modern science, without prejudice to particular
disciplines….
[A]gricultural scientists valorized the high-tech green revolution
agriculture and ignored low-tech, native systems of managing
forests and fields; health experts pursued “exotic” diseases (like
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SARS]) while ignoring
ubiquitous problems like infant diarrhea and indoor air
pollution….
Science, Society and the Environment : Applying Anthropology and
Physics to Sustainability / Michael R. Dove and Daniel M. Kammen

104. Futureearth.info

105. Rejoice

106. Repeat
Justin Maxon / Bloomberg Businessweek

107. Gavin Free / Slow Mo Guys John Brandon Miller

108. Raymond Pierrehumbert, Oxford