USA Today: Culture splits climate views, not science smarts.
“Basically people with technical smarts just use their abilities to better rationalize their already-held views. And why is that? Fitting in with your friends matters a lot more to people than getting climate science right …” We are but human, after all.
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But to the point;
Did I have a hard time accepting arguments from a crowd that then seriously dredged up every old 70’s panacea and try to bull it through under GW?
Does that statement itself not reflect the point of the article?
Why yes, I think it does
I still am looking for that (Popular Mechanics?) article from the late 60’s, early 70’s, in which some climate scientist was warning us of ‘40 plus years of unstable, catastrophic weather’ that was going to ‘presage a new ice age.’
A lot of talk of ‘global cooling’ in those days ... if I’m not completely crazy.
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Man as The Rationalizing Creature?
Too true.
I am very slow rolling over to global warming, like a decade. But!
It has been a decade of slooooowly developing science, solutions unrelated, politics, intrigue, outright fraud.
The most disturbing part of global warming is what I think it either did to or revealed about the interrelationship between politics, funding, and science.