Met Office Wants To Combat “Climate Change” With Poetry

Well, I guess that’s considerably more easy than actually making their own lives carbon neutral

(UK Independent) …scientists are being told to use art and poetry to win public support in the battle to curb climate change.

Dame Julia Slingo, the chief scientist at the Met Office, has called for a radical overhaul of the way climate scientists go about their business, arguing that they need to make their reports less turgid and more engaging.

“We have to look increasingly at what society requires of us… We increasingly recognise that to reach the general public we have to use all sorts of different channels of communication,” Dame Julia told a recent gathering of leading climate change scientists at the University of Exeter.

“And it’s not through tables and graphs. Sometimes it is through art, through music, through poetry, and storytelling and that is increasingly something we have to think about – how we communicate in a more humanist way.

“Scientists have to stay engaged in the communication message. We will have to work at this. We will have to get the message out that this is a profound, deeply serious problem. It is urgent that we, as a science community, work together to advance the science and also to communicate it as effectively as we can so that we get the action that is so badly needed,” she said.

Well, yeah, I guess so, since their actual science is a mess and their models are failures. This is partially a recognition that their scare tactics are no longer working.

Dame Julia also called on the public to step up their action to publicise climate change, for example by recording the way it is affecting their immediate environment.

Personally, I’d tell the Warmists to practice what they preach. Silly me.

“Climate change is a massive opportunity for citizen science,” she said. “For everybody who experiences the natural world, we can use all the social media tools that we have to document what we see happening to the world around us.”

Unless you don’t buy into their little cult, and then the message to Skeptics is “shut up”.

Of course, we’ve seen lots of Warmist “art”, such as

All murdery. And

Insane. And

Creepy. Here’s mine

Not particularly doomy, eh?

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7 Responses to “Met Office Wants To Combat “Climate Change” With Poetry”

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  3. Better_Be_Gumballs says:

    Her first name is “Dame”? Surprised her middle name isn’t “broad”. And with a last name like Slingo, her parents must have wished her a hate-filled life by giving her the name of Dame Slingo.

    Man 1: “Hey, did you have a fun time with that dame last night?”
    Man 2: “Yeah. SLINGO!!!”

    Anyone who thinks poetry can be used effectively to begin to present serious scientific analysis, that is purportedly describing our world’s near ruin, is just plain Slingo.

  4. Better_Be_Gumballs says:

    That’s teach for ya. Always writing interesting blog posts for people he doesn’t know so that THEY get free meals for telling others about it. Teach is awesome like that. And teach loves your spam too.

  5. Jeffery says:

    g,

    “Dame” is the female honorific equivalent to “Sir” in the British system of honors. She was knighted.

    BS in physics and a PhD in atmospheric physics
    Chief Scientist at the Met Office since 2009
    Visiting Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, Former Director of Climate Research in NERC’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science
    Founding Director of the Walker Institute for Climate System Research
    Order of the British Empire in 2008 for services to environmental and climate science
    First female Professor of Meteorology in the UK
    First woman President of the Royal Meteorological Society
    Buchan Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1998
    Honorary degrees of doctor of science by the University of Bristol in 2010 and the University of Reading in 2011
    Named one of the 100 leading UK practicing scientists by the Science Council

    And you smear her with sexist slurs. You’re an idiot. Why do far-right extremists have such a hard time with women?

  6. Jeffery says:

    Teach typed: “Unless you don’t buy into their little cult, and then the message to Skeptics is “shut up”. —- No, the message to deniers is to please just tell the truth.

  7. Better_Late_Than_Gumball says:

    once again we see humor is not possible in their genetic makeup.

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