tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post4097677791730411140..comments2024-03-17T12:51:46.412-07:00Comments on Cutting Through The Crap: Only In AmericaSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-26469966390709464662011-10-03T18:36:24.438-07:002011-10-03T18:36:24.438-07:00Nice to hear from you, PT.
Of course the study y...Nice to hear from you, PT. <br /><br />Of course the study you cite has nothing to do with the science of climate change, <i>per se</i>. I agree it's interesting (and I've written about it before) that even smart people can rationalize ignoring facts when it suits them. It speaks volumes about the human condition, the human brain: its frailty, its need, in times of trouble, to simplify and turn to magical thinking. <br /><br />In fact I'd say it's been and will continue to be a central theme of this blog: humans -- the best that god could come up with, according to legend -- are woefully ill-suited to tackle the hard stuff when the chips are down; and are amazingly adept at pretending <a href="http://www.carolforpeace.com/uploaded_images/JustPretendMagnet-777529.jpg" rel="nofollow">it's all okay</a>.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-5656366228526925632011-10-03T18:04:17.477-07:002011-10-03T18:04:17.477-07:00Hey Dr. Sid,
Warm-earthers are less educated and p...Hey Dr. Sid,<br />Warm-earthers are less educated and probably slightly more scientifically illiterate than climate realists (skeptics) according to this study from Yale.<br /><br />Maybe if you get a PhD, you'll finally be able to understand that <br />man made "climate change" is only a theory with questionable data collection methods and "evidence".<br /><br />Enjoy!<br />PT<br />.................... <br /><br />Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-26 <br />Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 89 <br />Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 435 <br /><br /><br />Abstract: <br />The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, THE MOST SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE SUBJECTS WERE SLIGHTLY LESS LIKELY, NOT MORE, TO SEE CLIMATE CHANGE AS A SERIOUS THREAT THAN THE LEAST SCIENTIFICALLY LITERATE ONES. More importantly, greater scientific literacy and numeracy were associated with greater cultural polarization: Respondents predisposed by their values to dismiss climate change evidence became more dismissive, and those predisposed by their values to credit such evidence more concerned, as science literacy and numeracy increased. We suggest that this evidence reflects a conflict between two levels of rationality: The individual level, which is characterized by citizens’ effective use of their knowledge and reasoning capacities to form risk perceptions that express their cultural commitments; and the collective level, which is characterized by citizens’ failure to converge on the best available scientific evidence on how to promote their common welfare. Dispelling this, “tragedy of the risk-perception commons,” we argue, should be understood as the central aim of the science of science communication.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-14862487363925189752011-09-26T05:24:19.486-07:002011-09-26T05:24:19.486-07:00Ummm, OK, maybe its another LSD-2 flashback...
d...Ummm, OK, maybe its another LSD-2 flashback...<br /> did you say Thomas Jefferson believed in Anthropogenetic Climate Change???<br /> Well he had Slaves too, screwed em in fact.<br /> I mean sexually, not just that he made them work for free.<br /> but I still like him, cause he's the only founding father who was lefthanded...<br /><br />FrankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-63827960423327524582011-09-26T05:20:52.652-07:002011-09-26T05:20:52.652-07:00Sid, just putting "Anthropogenetic" in f...Sid, just putting "Anthropogenetic" in front of something doesnt substitute for cold impartial research. Its like "Anthropogenetic Jerking Off", even eith the fancy name your still just playing with yourself.<br />Example, what was the temperature in Omaha Nebraska on July 4th, 1776?<br />NOBODY KNOWS, it could have been 120 degrees, or 120 below,or a pleasant 72, nobody was there except the Indians, and they didn't have Thermometers.<br />They were here first though...<br />THEY HAD RESERVATIONS!!!!!<br />nuthin like a good Indian joke to start your week.<br />So if you can't tell me what the temperature was in a major midwestern city several centuries ago, how can you predict what the Earth's temperature's gonna be several centuries from now??<br />Don't answer its rhetorical.<br />Heck, I'd be happy if you can tell me what the weathers gonna be this weekend...<br />and even if you can, AlGores still fat, he's so creepy even Prostitutes say so, and did I say he's fat?<br /><br />FrankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com