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How your brain stops you from taking climate change seriously
PBS NewsHour ^ | Jan 4,2019 | Nsikan Akpan

Posted on 01/04/2019 4:36:26 PM PST by mdittmar

Action on climate change has been stymied by politics, lobbying by energy companies and the natural pace of scientific research — but one of the most significant barriers is our own minds.

Think about how every town seems to have a traffic intersection that’s needlessly dangerous. No matter how many times you think to yourself, “They should really put in a stoplight here,” you don’t call the proper authorities. (You’re already late for work, and it feels like someone else’s problem to solve.)

Our mental responses to global warming and climate change follow a similar script. What needs to be done is clear enough — stop greenhouse gases from occupying the atmosphere — and yet progress moves at a snail’s pace. Three decades passed between the first report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the international community’s pledge for action through the Paris climate accords.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; climatechangefraud; commiepropaganda; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; pelosi; propaganda; scam; schumer; socialism
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To: PetroniusMaximus

‘Has there ever been such a focused attempt to brainwash a population as we are seeing with this climate change garbage?’

numerous religions...


61 posted on 01/04/2019 5:17:52 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: HotHunt

It’s Little Cuck Dood, head of the Lollipop Guild! :-)


62 posted on 01/04/2019 5:18:45 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: dhs12345

63 posted on 01/04/2019 5:19:20 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Lol. Spot on!


64 posted on 01/04/2019 5:21:02 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: mdittmar

Just another way leftists call everyone stupid. They really are horrible people and the internet has given us all the unfortunately opportunity to see their hatred.

JoMa


65 posted on 01/04/2019 5:21:07 PM PST by joma89
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To: goldstategop

“Liberals didn’t pay attention to it until 20 years ago and there’s still no great urgency to it.”

We’re getting old. It was Earth Day, 1990 (nearly 29 years ago now). It was both the 20th anniversary of the original Earth Day (no one even remembered the original until then) and it was just after their PRIMARY plan to take down the United States (via the Soviet Union) had pretty much failed, as the Berlin Wall had come down just 5 months earlier.

I remember it well, I dated a chick on that day...she ended up dumping me, but her loss in the end!


66 posted on 01/04/2019 5:22:42 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: mdittmar

We are told that we must believe in human caused climate change and must be willing to adopt any remedies suggested by politicians and scientists. The funny thing is that we are only allowed to believe in Left Wing politicians, and as for scientists you understand that the definition of who is a scientist is very important.

A degree in Kinesiology and professed belief in human caused climate change is sufficient to qualify. Doctorates in Physics, Chemistry, and Geology with 30 years of research on using proxies in the fossil record to reconstruct ancient climates worldwide does not make you a scientist if you are guilty of wrong thinking. If you question human climate change theology, then you are an heretic and clearly not a scientist.


67 posted on 01/04/2019 5:23:42 PM PST by centurion316
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To: mdittmar

Humm, That’s funny. Most of the data I have seen refutes nearly everything in this article. People have also been thinking and planning for the future for longer than recorded history.

My response is, Please look at real data and stop listening to make believe horror stories.


68 posted on 01/04/2019 5:26:21 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Bonemaker

Was that Al Gore before his big movement started?

DK


69 posted on 01/04/2019 5:27:30 PM PST by Dark Knight
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To: mdittmar

“international community’s pledge for action through the Paris climate accords“

So, what is this “international community”, and why are they pledging anything?


70 posted on 01/04/2019 5:28:40 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: mdittmar

It’s called intelligence. Go screw yourself, PBS.


71 posted on 01/04/2019 5:28:53 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: mdittmar

“How your brain stops you from taking climate change seriously”

The alternate title: “Why your brain keeps overriding the propaganda we feed it” was rejected by the editor.


72 posted on 01/04/2019 5:29:29 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: mdittmar

“international community’s pledge for action through the Paris climate accords“

So, what is this “international community”, and what gives them the right to pledge anything?


73 posted on 01/04/2019 5:29:54 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: mdittmar

My brain noticed that the first 2,307 predictions of doom and disaster utterly failed to materialize.


74 posted on 01/04/2019 5:31:51 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Major Scam. YES

Have the French figured this out before us? I vote yes.

Where do I get my Yellow Vest????


75 posted on 01/04/2019 5:33:10 PM PST by lizma2
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That was deep...

So deep chest waders won’t help protect me from the lamprey eels swarming in the waters.


76 posted on 01/04/2019 5:33:38 PM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Robert DeLong

Is that how many years it is going to take for them skulls full of mush to gradiate from hah skool? /s


77 posted on 01/04/2019 5:36:15 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives numerous, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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My brain can spot an American Taxpayer fleecing when it sees one... heck I can feel it when a liberal grifter even starts thinking about it.


78 posted on 01/04/2019 5:37:44 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: mdittmar

I’m going to write one like this, titled, “How your eyes lie to you, trust Al Gore.”


79 posted on 01/04/2019 5:39:06 PM PST by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Bonemaker

Hay maybe it is true that cows produce harmful gases.


80 posted on 01/04/2019 5:42:17 PM PST by dhs12345
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