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Why our brains make it hard to grapple with global warming
Gulf News ^
| October 26, 2017
| By David G. Victor, Nick Obradovich, Dillon J. Amaya
Posted on 10/26/2017 10:23:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Global Warming" isn't particular hard to understand or accept.For example...it was well established long ago that there's irrefutable evidence that Central Park (the one in Manhattan) was,as recently as,IIRC,10,000 years ago,enveloped in a glacier that was 2,000 feet thick.It was also established,long ago,that that glacier had completely vanished thousands of years ago.
What *is* tough to understand is *man made* global warming.After all,the internal combustion engine most assuredly did *not* cause that 2,000 foot high glacier to vanish.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So why isn’t the public heeding scientists and demanding climate action by politicians that could help deal with these destructive extremes? Glad you asked, its because even if all the nonsense about human caused global warming was true, non of the costly solutions you seek would make a lick of difference preventing it.
If you could prove to me its true then a rational call to action would be about mitigating the predictable effects and enhancing infrastructure etc.
But they never talk about that. They talk about transferring wealth from the first world to the third and crony green capitalism. None of which would have any effect on the warming or cooling of the atmosphere.
The human brain is designed to reject illogical conceptions and conclusions drawn from fallacies.
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10/26/2017 11:36:06 AM PDT
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usurper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Humans aren’t well-wired to act on complex statistical risks.
They're lying to us and then calling us stupid because we won't believe their lies.
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10/26/2017 12:36:20 PM PDT
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Trillian
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Because we are prone not to believe in BS.
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posted on
10/26/2017 12:50:32 PM PDT
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CodeToad
(CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If medical science was used in the fashion liberals use climate science, bleeding with leeches would still be a common cure used today.
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10/26/2017 1:03:37 PM PDT
by
unlearner
(You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Humans aren’t well-wired to act on complex statistical risks. Conservatives are far better equipped to analyze complex situations than liberals are. That much I know for sure.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why our brains make it hard to grapple with lies ...
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10/26/2017 2:25:03 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why our brains make it hard to grapple with global warming
This is why those people combatting Global Warning aren't using their brains.
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10/26/2017 5:58:37 PM PDT
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Oztrich Boy
(Winter is coming)
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