The Politics of the Climate Crisis – Dr. Gerald Kutney

You are invited to presentation #43 of the Canadian Club of Rome Zoom series.

Topic: The Politics of the Climate Crisis

Time: Mar 17, 2021 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada

Speaker:  Dr. Gerald Kutney

Summary: The Politics of the Climate Crisis – The science of climate change was far enough advanced that governments should have introduced policies to reduce GHG emissions by the late 1980s; yet, here we stand decades later, and little has been done, especially in the most powerful democracy in the world. The question is why? Ideology is a fundamental factor, but it does not explain it all; the other factor was corporate propaganda which stoked the fires of right-wing ideology. How do we get out of this mess? There is little chance for changing ideology, but we can fight back against the propaganda.

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Bio: Gerald is a commentator on MSM and social media on the politics of the climate crisis. He has authored the book Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol and is currently working on #ClimateBrawl vs. Climate Denialism: The Politics of the Climate Crisis.

Gerald is also known for having inspired the popular hashtag on Twitter: “#ClimateBrawl.” On Twitter, he is ranked in the top 💯 global influencers in Climate Science & Forecast, and the #1 global influencer for “Education & Public Awareness in the #ClimateChange Debate.”

He has a Ph.D. in chemistry and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Northern British Columbia and taught the graduate course Climate Change & Global Warming. Now living in Ottawa, he has presented several guest lectures at Carleton University on climate change denial.

A staff reporter from The Toronto Star wrote: “Canadian researcher Gerald Kutney, who has wielded his PhD in chemistry like a blinding blade of science in a relentless twitter campaign against climate denialism.”

MSM Op-eds:

• Huffpost – Governments Can Support Fossil Fuels And A Climate Policy Simultaneously

• Huffpost – Doug Ford’s Carbon-Tax Phobia Knows No Bounds

• Climate Samurai – Climate Change: Why are We having this Discussion

• Huffpost – Dear Conservatives, Climate Change Is the Real Threat, Not A Carbon Tax

• National Observer – Doug Ford’s Propaganda Against a Price on Carbon

• Porter Medium – Trump, Tweets and Climate Change

• National Observer – Scheer’s Climate Plan: Was It Worth The Wait?

• National Observer – In Alberta, a Shocking Abuse of Political Power to Protect the Oil Industry

• National Observer – Jason Kenney Blackmailing Canada Won’t Solve Climate Crisis

• National Observer – Kenney is Hardly Going Green

• Daisy Magazine – Irrefutable Fallacies of Climate Denial

• Climate Samurai – #ClimateBrawl: Climate Denial is a Lost Cause

• Happy Eco News – A Personal Guide to the Climate Crisis

MSM Interviews:

• Global News Radio – Lynda Steele Show – Vancouver

• Global News Radio – The Start – Winnipeg

• Irish Tech News – Deconstructing the Climate Change Deniers with Gerald Kutney

Quoted in MSM:

• The Toronto Star – “This B.C. researcher’s oilsands theories are being championed by Jason Kenney. Just one problem — experts say they’re not true”

• The Toronto Star – “When Maxime Bernier rants is anyone really listening?”

• Inside Climate News – “’Trollbots’ Swarm Twitter with Attacks on Climate Science Ahead of UN Summit”

• Sudbury Star – “Sudbury Letters: Learning about Climate Change; Forgetting Bernier”

• Windsor Star – “Deniers and Propaganda: Amherstburg Debate Tackles ‘Climate Crisis.’”

• Treehugger – “Canada is Introducing a Big Honking Carbon Tax”

Miscellaneous

• Court of the Grandchildren – #ClimateBrawl