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There are many ostensibly politically sophisticated climate activists who think the way to move the GOP into a better place on climate policy is to never discuss climate change or climate science. This is maddening self delusion. <THREAD> axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiosgenerate
1/ The battle over climate science is the battle that wins (or loses) the war. Denialisms know this in their bones. Why don't climate realists? And increasing Republican awareness of the scientific consensus DOES move them. Now, the lit review. climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/upl…
2/ Kerr & Wilson, 2018. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
3/ Baobau Zhang et al., 2018. nature.com/articles/s4155…
4/ Sander L. van der Linden et al., 2015. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
5/ Van der Linden, Leiserowitz, and Maibach, 2017. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/s…
6/ Cook, 2016. climatescience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/a…
7/ Coppock, 2016. academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8…
8/ Cook & Jacobs, 2014. reports.ncse.com/index.php/rncs…
9/ Maibach, Myers & Leiserowitz, 2014. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
10/ McCright, Dunlap & Xiao, 2013. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
11/ Lewandowsky, Gignac & Vaughan, 2013. nature.com/articles/nclim…
12/ Ding Ding et al., 2011. nature.com/articles/nclim…
13/ Long ago, Republican pollster Frank Lunz told the GOP exactly this--If you lose on the science, you lose the political fight against climate action. If you muddy up the science, you win. The science fight is pretty much everything. motherjones.com/files/LuntzRes…
14/ Republicans are never going to be tricked into shutting down coal, oil, and eventually, natural gas industries with happy talk abt clean air and jobs. Only by making the case that warming represents an existential risk to the planet, the economy, and our kids will they move.
15/ A heavy lift, sure, but that's what's required. Dodging these issues might make for an easier conversation, but it is a conversation that goes nowhere (policy-wise).
16/ While confrontation over climate science and policy within the GOP might appear hopeless, political scientist David Karol argues some reason for hope. But the fight can't be won if activists decide to not fight in the first place. <END> niskanencenter.org/wp-content/upl…
"DENIALISTS know this in their bones." Damned Twitter auto-correct!
Addendum--"We find that corrections from Republicans speaking against their partisan interest are most likely to persuade respondents to acknowledge and agree with the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change." That's why we do what we do. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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