"Psychiatrists analyse the ‘powerful psychological component’ to people’s ‘blindness to scientific reality’. Apparently, ‘millions of people share the phenomenon of climate denial’ and something must be done about it. A report in the Guardian in 2014 said ‘neuroscientists and psychologists’ were finally ‘beginning to understand just why people behave so irrationally [on climate change]’. It’s because ‘our brains are wired to respond to short-term problems, not long-term risk’. And so our brains must be fixed. Priests of old who were concerned about the influence of heresy sought to save men’s souls – today’s eco-priests, horrified by the heresy of climate denialism, endeavour to mend our minds. Not through rational discussion, though – we’ve already established that human beings behave ‘irrationally’ on climate change – but rather through the manipulation of language and thought. As a report from British think-tank the IPPR put it, ‘the task of climate-change agencies is not to persuade by rational argument but in effect to develop and nurture a new “common sense”’."
That is because we are smart enough to recognize BS when we see it.
I read the article this morning. Excellent job by Brendan O’Neill putting the current climate nonsense into historical context. I confess that I am a heretic, a “climate denier.”
I think the author misses the opportunity to label the current climate religion as to the source of the Climate change. All discussions of this sort needs to distinguish between actual climate change which does occur, and no one denies it, and the “Man Made Climate Change” religion. The argument and science needs to apply to the cause of the climate changing. And you don’t let them vote away the scientific inquiry. Sun spots, warm ocean patterns, cold ocean patterns, etc. Patterns of CO2 which increase and decrease as part of the overall pattern of God created nature. And then the horror question, is the world and it’s climate self regulation as God created it?
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First, reward alarmists with grants and public acclaim - (reporters don't put stories about "half degree changes" in temperatures over a hundred years on the front page.) But they do run with 'earth will end in 8 years IF we don't act NOW to save the planet'
Second, cut grants and support for real scientists who know science is NEVER 'settled'. Better, drum rational intelligent real scientists out of the profession.
Third, create majors in 'environmental studies' that are more akin to political 'science', liberal arts and basket weaving, than to real science. How do you know? Fake science departments cut math requirements.
Fourth: Put idiots with lots of money at the top of 'the earth religion'... Fools like John Kerry and Bill Gates. Feed their natural hysteria and need for grandiosity, audience and approval.
Fifth, encourage power for the true believer 'more money than brains' types. Encourage their insanity when they speak of 'seeding the atmosphere', while being too stupid to understand the complexity of interrelated weather systems (gulf streams etc)and the result will be a dead planet.