[FRIAM] Climate Change

[Jochen Fromm]

Maybe it is the effect of a "confirmation bias". He sees somewhere on Fox News that the weather will be really cold, and thinks this confirms his theory that global warming is a hoax - although we all know that climate and weather are different, and that climate change is real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
-J.


-------- Original message --------From: Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> Date: 12/29/17  16:13  (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change 
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.   Nick  Nicholas S. ThompsonEmeritus Professor of Psychology and BiologyClark Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ 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 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 Only an idiot would ignore climate change. Is he really this stupid? My god.. -J.
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