10 years ago almost to the day, I was watching the Oscars on TV. I'm sitting in my living room and Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar. (On LinkedIn and YouTube)

If I could take a snapshot of my brain at that point about what I thought about climate, it was something like "everyone knows the climate is changing, it's important, but it's all taken care of".

And then Leo gets up and says "Climate change is real". I'm sitting there suddenly realizing that it's not taken care of, and a lot more is needed. Wow!

One big takeaway of a decade in climate is that there's a lot of room for improvement when it comes to talking about the changing climate. I wanted to make a tool to support AirMiners in talking to their friends, to their family, to their peers, even in your day-to-day conversations.

I wrote this guide called How to Talk About Climate in 2026. It's also useful for anybody that's working on stabilizing the climate.

And there's not a single datapoint, chart, or table.

Imagine you're standing at the grocery store and the cashier is talking to you about that the climate has always changed. Or you're at an event and the person that you're staying next to says, "Don't worry about the change in climate, we've got hundreds of years to get things together". And imagine you're talking to a peer at work and they say "We're just doomed no matter what we do".

This is my guide for all those conversations.

It's seven steps on how to talk about the changing climate in 2026. It goes through: Is it changing? Is it caused by humans? How bad is it? Can we do anything about it? Is stopping emissions enough? How much time do we have to sort all these pieces out? And how do we actually stabilize the climate?

Here's an example of the first module. Let's say you're talking with somebody who is on question one. They might say things like, "the climate is not changing, we've got more snow this year than ever" or "the climate isn't changing, they've been saying this stuff for 30 years".

In the guide is every question and samples of what it sounds like, and sample responses of what works and what doesn't work, inspired by what I've found myself doing or seen other people doing.

OK, back to the grocery store scene. You know the drill, you cite some data. They say that scientists are biased. You say that there's scientific consensus. They say that, well, consensus isn't what science is all about. And now you're having this discussion that's not about whether they think the climate is changing, it's this much bigger discussion that you can never really make any progress with especially not in line to get your Cheetos.

And so imagine instead, you're able to hear what they're saying. They say they just they don't trust the government or media, and the people in charge aren't looking out for them. You discover you actually have some of those same concerns. You know the climate is changing is very clear but you have more in common than you thought. You come away from these conversations instead feeling defeated or feeling like "people are just freaking hopeless", instead, you can feel like "I was able to connect with this person. I understand what they're doing. And next time I talk with them, I can have the next step in the conversation with them."

That's what this guide is for. There's seven modules. What the question is, what it sounds like, how your conversations normally go, and what it looks like when it goes wrong and what it looks like when it goes right. I encourage you to check out this guide and take this into your own climate conversations.

Many incredible things have grown up over the last 10 years. Communities, policies, startups. And I'm really looking forward to the next 10 years and what we're going to create together. I want this guide to be part of what helps get people on the same page so that we can all go and stabilize the climate together.

The 2026 Oscars Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday! I don't know if Leonardo DiCaprio is going to win another award, but maybe we'll get a version 2.0 of his climate talk (!).

You can download the guide here. And share it with your friends and family too!

Tito