[FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Thanks, Glen,

 

While I am "in", it seems to me that a distinction is beginning to evolve here between whether a reasonable person CAN doubt Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) and whether such a person SHOULD doubt AGW.   I think reasonable people could argue whether we are in a period of AGW (400yrs), a period of global cooling (11,000 yrs) or a spectacularly fragile and geologically unprecedented period of climate stability (also about 11kyrs).  So, in these sorts of situations, people tend to sort themselves out into Dionysians and Apollonians, the former declaring that we're probably  fucked and we might as well stay warm, run around in our cars, and burn all the coal we can, and the later declaring that we have a chance to get it right and we should take our best shot.  I am, as you all know, with the Apollonians.  We are, after all, the choosing species, the species that can knowingly chart it's own path.  So we “should” choose; in fact, we will chose, even if we only do so by choosing not to choose.  

 

But it's clear, now why the debate is so intractable.  The debate between Dionysians and Apollonians has been in progress for centuries, so it's no surprise that we are struggling with it now.  

 

I hear some of you formulating an argument that whether we are D’s or A’s should be determined by the shape of the hazard space.  As a collective, I think we FRIAMMERS are particularly well positioned and qualified to have that discussion, and I hope it will continue.  

 

NIck

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

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Ha! Yes, sorry. Anthropogenic Global Warming.

 

On 1/21/20 11:53 AM,  <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:

> Could we develop a FRIAM convention?  In any first use of an acronym in any individual email, the user spell it out.  

> 

> AGW?  I know I should know, but 'should-knowing' something is a long way from knowing it. 

 

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