[FRIAM] Climate Change

[Merle Lefkoff]

Nick is right.  The uneducated (who also vote) do not understand, for
example, that climate events will continue to be more intense, if not more
frequent.  And the ambiguity necessary to nonlinear models causes great
confusion.  People need certainly and prediction and have been led to
believe science will get them there.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> This is “our” fault.  We have failed to articulate and distribute a
> language that adequately relates changes in probabilities of events with
> changes in particular events.  We say that “harvey” was caused by global
> warming, but then we bridle when senators carry snowballs into congress.
> Yes, this is “our” fault.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Jochen
> Fromm
> *Sent:* Friday, December 29, 2017 1:23 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Climate Change
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> This is what Donald wrote on Twitter tonight:
>
> "In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we
> could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country,
> but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect
> against. Bundle up!"
>
> https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/946531657229701120
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> Only an idiot would ignore climate change. Is he really this stupid? My
> god..
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> -J.
>
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
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