Climate Chatterboxes Column 110 This past weekend I joined fellow Citizen Climate Lobby members at the largest ski race in the country, the Birkiebeiner in Hayward WI. We manned a booth at the Expo, and I was able to practice what I preach. If you want to change people’s minds, start a conversation. I started conversations for eight hours with some of the 10,000 attendees. It was rewarding because cross-country skiers know the score. Without human intervention to reduce emissions, skiing on natural snow will go away. I was preaching scientifically and morally to the choir. What made all of us happy was skiers saw Citizens Climate Lobby as an organization they could rally around to move the climate agenda forward in a non-partisan fashion. What was satisfying is cross-country skiers have, in just one year, become more comfortable talking about climate change...
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