The research, by Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, reinforces the case that a large part of the climate challenge is not out in the world of eroding glaciers and limited energy choices, but inside the human mind.
There’s the “ finite pool of worry” ( Did we pay the rent this month?). There’s “single action bias” ( I changed bulbs; all set.) There are powerful internal filters ( dare I say blinders?) that shape how different people see the same body of information.
Of course skeptics include dimwits like Freeman Dyson or Richard Lindzen and I guess that I for one am proud to wear the same blinders that they do.
Of course skeptics include dimwits like Freeman Dyson or Richard Lindzen and I guess that I for one am proud to wear the same blinders that they do.
Well, there are many links between the bogus science of global warming and the bogus science of psychology.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these cons depend on weasel words, appeal to authority, misleading statistics and plain simple bluff. And both make ad hominem attacks on their critics.