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Post by icefisher on Jan 30, 2016 20:49:57 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 11, 2016 19:11:50 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 13, 2016 15:38:13 GMT
cliscep.com/2016/02/12/kahan-and-tol-on-climate-cluelessness/Two recent posts by Dan Kahan at his Cultural Cognition blog have revealed how completely clueless the American public is on climate change. In a cleverly designed survey, he asked some questions of the type “Most climate scientists believe human-caused warming will lead to flooding of some coastal areas, True/False” for which the correct answer is true, but also some red-herring-alarm questions such as “climate scientists believe human-caused warming will increase the risk of skin cancer”. He finds that about 75% of people believe these false scares, such as the cancer one, one about warming having caused more tornadoes, two questions about aerosols and sulphur emissions being responsible for global warming, and one about carbon dioxide reducing photosynthesis in plants. Kahan summarises the findings as follows: Ordinary members of the public, regardless of what they “believe” about human-caused climate change, know pitifully little about the basic causes and consequences of global warming.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 13, 2016 16:08:26 GMT
You have to admire the use of weasel words by the Washington Post and Jeff Masters "Jeff Masters, a hurricane expert and co-founder of the Weather Underground, declaring that late October’s Category 5 Hurricane Patricia wasn’t just the strongest hurricane ever seen in the Western hemisphere. No, Masters asserts that Patricia was the strongest tropical cyclone ever reliably recorded by humans" So that means in the last 40 years - not really as emotive and "“I regard Patricia as unmatched for the strongest winds of any tropical cyclone in recorded history,”" A totally meaningless statement considering his first. Considering that ACE is not exactly roaring away, all we have seen is the effect of the warm blob in the central Pacific (also excitedly called an El Nino by Nino 3.4 fixated climate scientists) in spawning convective cyclones - not exactly unexpected. The problem is as the Earth cools it is probable that there will be more distinct warm / cold boundary which will lead to more severe weather, which these people will automatically claim is due to global warming. |
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 20, 2016 2:45:11 GMT
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