Tag: climate cliff

  • Abseiling down the climate cliff metaphor

    Abseiling down the climate cliff metaphor

    Since its very beginning in the 1980s, public discourse about climate change has been structured by metaphors. We had the greenhouse effect, the carbon footprint, the hockey stick, the tipping point, and we also had climategate; and to these metaphors we can now add the ‘climate cliff’ (which one can almost see as an upside…