There is no debate on climate change; there are the facts, acknowledged by the scientific community, and there there are the lies, sponsored by the fossil-fuel industry & spouted by Fox Noise blowhards.
Peter- So true, but so ineffective. It’s like telling someone they are angry when they are obviously angry: just makes them madder, and inclines them to deny they were angry in the first place. Motivated irrationalities are not susceptible to rational correction that does not start with the motivations. Even then, talking someone out of their religion or cash cow has a bad track record.
Cozmik Cowboy over 9 years ago
There is no debate on climate change; there are the facts, acknowledged by the scientific community, and there there are the lies, sponsored by the fossil-fuel industry & spouted by Fox Noise blowhards.
Earle H Landry over 9 years ago
Peter- So true, but so ineffective. It’s like telling someone they are angry when they are obviously angry: just makes them madder, and inclines them to deny they were angry in the first place. Motivated irrationalities are not susceptible to rational correction that does not start with the motivations. Even then, talking someone out of their religion or cash cow has a bad track record.
katina.cooper over 9 years ago
It’s all that hot air that the politicians spew from their mouths.
KEA over 9 years ago
I’m not sure about heated arguments contributing, but I’m sure the human population explosion has some effect.
K M over 9 years ago
Makes as much sense as the bogus data troweled out by the alarmists.