New York Times: In a 2011 post on the limits of climate science communication in shifting public policies or personal behaviors, I called myself a recovering denialist, laying out my reasoning this way:
My denial, I said, lay in my longstanding presumption, like that of many scientists and journalists, that better communication of information will tend to change peoples perceptions, priorities and behavior. This attitude, in my view, crested for climate scientists in the wake of the 2007 report from the...