The Fine Art of Climate Negotiation
The Fine Art of Climate Negotiation
1. Introduction
4:15Part I - Fundamentals
4. The Players
21:566. Peer Review
12:438. Open Listening
16:43Part II - Logical Fallacies
10. Moving the Goalposts
11:1211. The Strawman
14:3914. False balance
15:1716. False Dilema
9:3417. Cherry Picking
16:4118. Circular Reasoning
19:2419. The Slippery Slope
21:29Check Out the PowerPoint Slides
Part I - Fundamentals
Part II - Logical Fallacies
Other Stuff
Check out the Ad Fontes Media Interactive Media Bias Chart.
You can get downloads of the chart from a simple Google search, but it is best to go directly to Ad Fontes Media. They have a mission to continuously review and update the chart.
We find, over time news organizations will move around somewhat within the chart, depending on the reporters, op ed writers and editorial policies at any given time. We like to check out unfamiliar news sources before we share articles with our friends and colleagues. This is one way to increase the integrity of the information we share.
You can also download this useful checklist to help you decide about good and bad information sources. – Six RED FLAGS that a “News Story” Is: Unreliable, Disreputable, Embarrassing to Share.
Check out the paper on bias in contrarian climate change papers in the scientific literature: Learning from Mistakes in Climate Research, published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology in 2016.
Check out Celeste Headlee’s Ted Talk.
She provides the best summary of Open Listening we have come across. Her Ted Talk and her books have profoundly changed the way we conceive of listening and its role in our ongoing climate work.
We found this short e-book by Ali Almossawi particulary helpful in better understanding logical fallacies … An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.
Dr. John Corvino is a speaker, writer, philosophy professor, and Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University in Detroit. We found his video series on logical fallacies very useful for coming to grips with how fallacies come into play in day-to-day conversation and climate negotiation. Each of his videos is about two minutes in duration. Check out his video on the Not a True Scotsman Fallacy.
Check out John Corvino’s video on The Principle of Charity and the Strawman Fallacy.
Check out John Corvino’s video on the ad hominem argument.
Check out John Oliver’s skit on false balance in The Climate Change Debate. **Warning – Some Adult Language** We debated about sharing this video, as it does come from the popular late-night television show Last Week Tonight.
We found that despite its humorous twist on this issue and adult content, this was one of the best pieces to explain the concept of false balance we came across in our research. We have cued up the video to start at the most relevant location. This bypasses the adult language. If you wish to see John Oliver’s entire argument, you may restart the video from the beginning. It’s all there.
Check out John Corvino’s video on The Use of Experts.
Also, we found this TED Talk very helpful … Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing.
Finally, here is a slightly longer video that we really enjoyed, if you have about ten minutes … The Dunning-Kruger Effect – Cognitive Bias – Why Incompetent People Think They Are Competent.
Check out John Corvino’s video on False Dilemma.
Here is another useful video on confirmation bias, from a slightly different perspective. Tali Sherot comes to similar conclusions about confirmation bias – we need to seek common ground and build acceptance from there. We need to seek agreement in the basic concerns we all share … Facts Don’t Win Fights: Here’s How to Cut Through Confirmation Bias
Check out John Corvino’s video on circular reasoning … Begging the Question.
Check out John Corvino’s video on Slippery Slope Arguments.
