Don't even think about it: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change

Questions

We'll deal with that lofty stuff some other day : why disaster victims do not want to talk about climate change

Speaking as a layman : why we think that extreme weather shows we were right all along

You never get to see the whole picture : how the Tea Party fails to notice the greatest threat to its values

Polluting the message : how science becomes infected with social meaning

The jury of our peers : how we follow the people around us

The power of the mob : how bullies hide in the crowd

Through a glass darkly : the strange mirror world of climate deniers

Inside the elephant : why we keep searching for enemies

The two brains : why we are so poorly evolved to deal with climate change

Familiar yet unimaginable : why climate change does not feel dangerous

Uncertain long-term costs : how our cognitive biases line up against climate change

Them, there, and then : how we push climate change far away

Costing the earth : why we want to gain the whole world yet lose our lives

Certain about the uncertainty : how we use uncertainty as a justification for inaction

Paddling in the pool of worry : how we choose what to ignore

Don't even talk about it! : the invisible force field of climate silence

The non-perfect non-storm : why we think that climate change is impossibly difficult

Cockroach tours : how museums struggle to tell the climate story

Tell me a story : why lies can be so appealing

Powerful words : how the words we use affect the way we feel

Communicator trust : why the messenger is more important than the message

If they don't understand the theory, talk about it over and over and over again : why climate science does not move people

Protect, ban, save, and stop : how climate change became environmentalist

Polarization : why polar bears make it harder to accept climate change

Turn off your lights or the puppy gets it : how doomsday becomes dullsville

Bright-siding : the dangers of positive dreams

Winning the argument : how a scientific discourse turned into a debating slam

Two billion bystanders : how Live Earth tried and failed to build a movement

Postcard from Hopenhagen : how climate negotiations keep preparing for the drama yet to come

Precedents and presidents : how climate policy lost the plot

Wellhead and tailpipe : why we keep fueling the fire we want to put out

The black gooey stuff : why oil companies await our permission to go out of business

Moral imperatives : how we diffuse responsibility for climate change

What did you do in the great climate war, Daddy? : why we don't really care what our children think

The power of one : how climate change became your fault

Degrees of separation : how the climate experts cope with what they know

Intimations of mortality : why the future goes dark

From the head to the heart : the phony division between science and religion

Climate conviction : what the green team can learn from the God squad

Why we are wired to ignore climate change

and why we are wired to take action

In a nutshell : some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole.