How to Turn Climate Change Skeptics Into Advocates

On the Media | May 5, 2017

For 23 years, while working at the Cato Institute, it was Jerry Taylor's job to be skeptical of climate change in the media. But in recent years he's changed his tune. Since 2014, when he founded the libertarian think tank the Niskanen Center, he has been urging conservative policymakers to accept the risks of climate change, and then craft policies to address them.

He talks to Brooke about the language and rhetoric that has proven effective in getting climate change deniers and skeptics to think differently.

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