“I’m telling you this clearly: in 2030 there will be no snow in the Pyrenees.” Tomàs Molina, the best-known “man of the time”, was clearly and forcefully present yesterday, during a conversation with the cultural manager and journalist Cristina Valentí as part of the Rahola Week, which this year celebrates its tenth edition. The talk, entitled Denying Evidence. When politics entered journalism, it brought together regarding fifty people in the great hall of the House of Culture of Girona to talk regarding the effects of climate change on our planet.
Climate emergency, politics and denial. A priori, these three words together don’t make much sense. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person. “We’ve only been talking regarding climate change for 30 years,” said Tomàs Molina. In fact, the first report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was published in 1990, but it was not until 2014 with the publication of the fourth report that it spoke with certainty regarding climate change and all effects it had on the planet, as the meteorologist said yesterday. This, on the one hand, meant that until then no one had taken the problem seriously and, on the other hand, that once the evidence had been confirmed, it was too late to reverse its effects.
“If nothing more has been done in the past because of climate change, it’s because we didn’t know so many things, a bit like what happened with Covid,” confessed Molina, while stressing that it was important to note that “in thirty-five For years, the world of journalism has changed drastically: before, they never wanted to achieve results, and now it has been seen that, through the message, society can be modulated ”. In this sense, Tomàs Molina emphasized the importance of the message that is sent to the population through the media and their ability to generate a certain public opinion. That is why, according to the physicist, “it is necessary to report without alarmism, in a simple way, with messages that do not scare” in order to avoid the opposite effect: denial.
“In the United States, there is a clear political separation between voters denying climate change that has to do with social position and level of education,” said Tomás Molina, adding that “there is almost no one left in the world of science. to deny climate change. However, in the political spheres this consensus is not so homogeneous. A clear example of this is the Winter Olympics to be held in 2030 in the Pyrenees, for which the physical journalist said that “we need to weigh what we really want to do and what is most interesting”, in the same He warned that this year “we will have another drought like the one in 2008 and a lot of fires”.