Kimmel on Climate: Disentangling the Emotional Ingredients of a Satirical Monologue – Abstract:
This study explored whether satire (an emotional blend of humor/indignation) can minimize the emotional tradeoffs researchers have documented for humorous appeals about climatechange. Using a sample of U.S. young adults, we conducted a 2 (humor: present/absent) × 2 (indignation: present/absent) + 1 (control) experiment in which we manipulated a climatechange segment from Jimmy Kimmel Live! Our evidence suggests that it is possible for a late-night host to affect young adults’ climate change risk perception and behavioral intentions under certain conditions.
I loved seeing my friend Aradhna Tripati in the “I’m not fucking with you” vid – definitely a classic of this genre. (disaster education humor?)
Below, another friend, John Cook, was one of the young scientists I profiled in the latest Yale Climate Connections vid, on creative ways to communicate science. As a scientist/cartoonist, John has also used humor to get the point across.
Well, if one is distraught about this stuff most of the time, it’s probably healthy to laugh about it occasionally.
BTW, on the video, it’s probably not so great for Aquaman, either:
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-hot-sea-life.html
Distraught is perhaps too strong a word to describe how most of us feel about this stuff—-it will become more useful if and when we pass some tipping points and the SHTF (and people start dying in large numbers).
I DO appreciate the efforts of the comedians to lighten things up, but “ironic chuckles” and grins is about as close as I get to outright laughing. I did burst into laughter at the very end of the clip when the little kid let loose with his statement. Right on, you big-eared little MF!!
Great, but we know the vid will not be seen by anyone with a heavily worn fox news channel remote button, right?
The Kimmel clip DID get over 900,000 views on Youtube in 3 years, but you’re probably right about the Faux News viewers not being among them.
When science, logic and common sense hit a brick wall, why not try dismissive contempt?
An oldie by a goody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiYZxOlCN10