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The psychology of climate change denial

vegas giants said:
He has nothing
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I think these guys understate a bit, and they have to make the ritual nod to AGW, but they're on the right track.

Sun's impact on climate change quantified for first time


Mar 27, 2017 - For the first time, model calculations show a plausible way that fluctuations in solar activity could have a tangible impact on the climate. Studies ...

Researchers from the Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos (PMOD), the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), ETH Zurich and the University of Bern are now qualifying this assumption. Their elaborate model calculations are supplying a robust estimate of the contribution that the sun is expected to make to temperature change in the next 100 years. For the first time, a significant effect is apparent. They expect the Earth's temperature to fall by half a degree when solar activity reaches its next minimum.
 
Jack Hays said:
I think these guys understate a bit, and they have to make the ritual nod to AGW, but they're on the right track.

Sun's impact on climate change quantified for first time


Mar 27, 2017 - For the first time, model calculations show a plausible way that fluctuations in solar activity could have a tangible impact on the climate. Studies ...

Researchers from the Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos (PMOD), the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), ETH Zurich and the University of Bern are now qualifying this assumption. Their elaborate model calculations are supplying a robust estimate of the contribution that the sun is expected to make to temperature change in the next 100 years. For the first time, a significant effect is apparent. They expect the Earth's temperature to fall by half a degree when solar activity reaches its next minimum.
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Is the Sun causing global warming? – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
 
Former Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson admit the company for a long time have known about the its destructive impact.

"It's rare for a current or former leader of one of the world's largest energy producers to testify under oath about climate change.

That's why a New York courtroom was packed on Wednesday to see ex-Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson take the witness stand and explain that the company knew for years how it was a significant threat to the world.

"We knew, we knew it was a real issue," Tillerson said. "We knew it was a serious issue and we knew it was one that's going to be with us now, forevermore, and it's not something that was just suddenly going to disappear off of our concern list because it is going to be with us for certainly well beyond my lifetime.""

'''We knew''': Ex oil boss says climate change '''with us forevermore'''

That he din't wan to admit is how much Exxon and other fossil fuel and other fossil fuel companies have done to delay the necessary transition away from fossil fuels.

Report details how ExxonMobil sowed doubt on climate change - Los Angeles Times

Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]
 
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The best destruction is self-destruction.

[h=1]Stephan the Worg Commits Suicide in Plain Sight[/h]Posted on 13 Nov 19 by GEOFF CHAMBERS • 6 Comments
Professor Lewandowsky, who tweets under the name of STWorg, has just opined on Twitter: The former Conservative party is now a fascist-enabled white-nationalist outfit and not much more. And yet, so many people close their eyes to that transformation. It’s in plain sight and broad daylight. To which Ben Pile has replied: Really? “a fascist-enabled … Con
 
Dystopia is here.

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ataraxia said:
I have been very puzzled at the rhetoric and arguments of climate deniers. It has seemed really odd how readily, for example, they deny the strong and unanimous consensus of every single scientific organization on the entire planet, but jump all over a Manhattan real estate guy’s Declaration that it’s all just a Chinese hoax. No amount of evidence seems to be enough. They either deny it, or twist it, or just grasp at any crazy website or charlatan they can find who may have an opposing opinion. It just seems so disconnected from reality and reason.

It did not make sense, until I saw this article about why otherwise rational people can become climate change deniers, young earth creationists, believe in ESP and UFO abduction stories, deny modern medicine and think they can treat their rececently diagnosed cancer with all-natural herbal teas and yoga, become an anti-vaxxer, etc...

It’s a psychological optical illusion: when scientific facts are so unfamiliar, so uncomfortable, so against one’s view of what the world is like or should be, that it becomes preposterous to accept it. So they start to see their skepticism as being smart. The science, so readily accepted in other areas, becomes a conspiracy to destroy capitalism or give their kids autism or something. It’s not A matter of presenting even more evidence, or being more logical or rational. This is not about facts or logic.

Great article on the psychology of such science-denial:

Why So Many Americans Don't 'Believe' In Evolution, Climate Change And Vaccines | HuffPost Life

I think the way to try to convince these folks is not to keep presenting more evidence for climate change. It’s not about the evidence. Clearly no amount of evidence is going to change their mind. The thing that bothers them is probably that if true, it is going to involve government intervention and spending. Or that they might lose their jobs. If they are convinced that’s what it’s going to necessarily involve, they are going to keep denying it. Maybe if they are reassured that the free-market may be able to address these issues, or that new and more jobs will be created, they will not deny the issues themselves so much anymore. Of course, then there is the fear of change that we will have to contend with.

But at least this may be a blueprint for how to debate these folks. Because it is clear than trying to convince them just based on evidence and rationality is a losing proposition. You will just go against a brick wall and come back with a concussion. Because it’s not about that.
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Huff Post......


Bravo!
 
Jack Hays said:
Dystopia is here.

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ReEducation, by any other name!!
 
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