Posted on 02/28/2017 1:33:18 PM PST by servo1969
Here is the best (and weirdest) example of cognitive dissonance you will ever see. The set-up is that Bill Nye, an engineer by training, and a proponent of science, is defending climate science on Tucker's show.
The first weird thing is that Bill Nye starts by talking about cognitive dissonance being the only reason that anyone would be skeptical of global warming. But he seems to not understand the concept of cognitive dissonance because he believes only the other side could be experiencing it. The nature of cognitive dissonance is that you don't know you're in it when you're in it. It is only obvious to observers. If Nye had been objective, he would have noted two equal possibilities: Either the skeptics are experiencing cognitive dissonance or the proponents of climate science are experiencing it. But whoever is in it can't know. It is only obvious to the other side. That's how it works.
Yes, I do the same thing all the time. I call out my critics for being in cognitive dissonance and act as if the problem couldn't be on my end. But in my case, the context is usually that I'm teaching you how to spot it. And I also talk about the specific triggers and "tells" so you can check my work. This video has a clear trigger and an enormous tell. Best example you will ever see.
The set-up for the trigger is that Nye's self-image is that of a rational supporter of science with a command of the facts about climate science. He has made a career recently of defending science, and climate science in particular. Nye's ego depends on being consistent with his pro-science, rational stance. That's who he is.
Tucker then asked Nye a simple question about climate science. He asked how much of the warming is caused by human activity. Nye's entire ego depended on knowing whether human activity is contributing to climate change in a big way, a medium way, or a small way. Tucker wanted some details. How much difference do humans make? After all, Nye had said this was settled science. Tucker just wanted to know what that settled science said.
Nye didn't know. And by not knowing that simple answer about the percentage of human contribution to warming - the only issue that really mattered to the topic - he proved in public that his opinions on science are not based on facts or knowledge. Nye tried and tried to dodge the question, but Tucker was relentless. That was the trigger. Nye could plainly see, thanks to Tucker's simple question, that his belief in science was just a belief, because he didn't actually know the science. When your self-image and ego get annihilated on live television, you can't simply admit you have been ridiculous all along. Your brain can't let you do that to yourself. So instead, it concocts weird hallucinations to force-glue your observations into some sort of semi-coherent movie in which you are not totally and thoroughly wrong. That semi-coherent movie will look like a form of insanity to observers.
Look for Nye to go totally mental in the last minute of the clip, changing the topic to political leaks for no apparent reason. That's your tell. His brain just sort of broke right in front of you.
People do and say dumb things all the time, and it isn't always cognitive dissonance. That's why you look for the trigger to make sure the "tell" was what you thought it was.
To be fair, spotting cognitive dissonance is more like bird-watching than science. Sometimes you misidentify a bird. But this example is like an ostrich sitting on your lap. Hard to miss. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5L2q6hfWo
There is a positive, you know, there always is. Stating those who disagree with the Liberal Weltanschauung suffer from “cognitive dissonance” is surely a step up from the usual ad hominem attacks of “racist”, “sexist”, “homophobe”, and the rest of the list.
CERN, the world’s top particle physics laboratory, just found that our big, abrupt climate changes are produced by variations in the sun’s activity. That’s the same sun the modelers had dismissed as “unchanging.” CERN says the sun’s variations interact with cosmic rays to create more or fewer of earth’s heat-shielding clouds. The IPCC had long admitted it couldn’t model clouds--and now the CERN experiment says the clouds are the earth’s thermostats!
That’s Right, Say It Again! That’s Exactly what she said! BTTT!
Wow, and I thought Obama talked in circles
I watched that last night and almost had a heart attack laughing so hard at that Nye fruitcake sputtering and having fits over Carlson stabbing him with the truth every time he opened his lying mouth. What an IDIOT! I guess the bow-tie was an indicator as to just how bad the match was going to be.
Carlson literally ripped him to pieces and spit him out. At the end of the torture session Nye was simply mumbling some foreign babbling and looked like he was going to cry.
“Global warming already happened—10 degrees by all accounts—and the results were not as dire as folks are making it out to be.”
Who says it has risen 10 degrees? Is it the same group that designed the “hocky-stick graphs”? There is NO credible proof since the ones making the “historical records” are the one’s who actually believe that man is making “CLIMATE CHANGE!” Go ask the dinosaurs about it since they were here before man was able to “destroy” the earth’s climate.
I’m with you on that one. I found it to be GREAT Comedy and laughed so hard that I think I pulled a muscle somewhere. As it went on Nye became rabid and I thought I saw some foam forming in the corners of his mouth while spittle was flicking on his bow-tie.
MAN! What entertainment we have when Tucker Carlson interviews raging liberals and makes them lick their own butts!
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Nye isn’t even close to being a scientist:
The first job of a scientist is to prove himself wrong.
Tucker should have worn a clown bow tie for old Bill.
Big Lie, the Pseudoscience Guy.
Battle of the Bowties. Tucker wins!!
bkmk
If there was no human activity, wine makers in France would have bought more land even sooner and produced even more grapes. Have I got that right?
Carlson Tucker, climate De-Nye-r
I’m in Omaha. Even if the planet is warming (hey, we’re coming out of an ice age dumb*sses), why would we want to stop that?
I hate the cold winters. I want it to get WARM.
And CO2 is plant food, so if you are against CO2, you are against plants, and therefore you are a specieist.
So...there. Have a nice day. :-)
ExxonMobil “Our position on climate change”
http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-policy/climate-perspectives/our-position
“The risk of climate change is clear and the risk warrants action. Increasing carbon emissions in the atmosphere are having a warming effect. There is a broad scientific and policy consensus that action must be taken to further quantify and assess the risks.”
So the debate isn’t if climate change exists or if fossil fuels (carbon emissions) are changing the climate, but now the debate is what percentage of climate change is caused by man?
Exxon Mobil is ordered to hand over climate change research
LA Times, 12 Jan 2017
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon-mobil-climate-change-documents-20170112-story.html
“A Massachusetts judge has ordered Exxon Mobil to submit 40 years of documents regarding the company’s studies of the impact of fossil fuels on climate change. ...to pursue questions about whether Exxon Mobil misled the public about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.”
Like the tobacco industry “...internal company documents suggested that during the 1980s and 1990s the company used climate research as part of its planning and other business practices but simultaneously argued publicly that climate change science was not clear-cut.”
Like the tobacco industry “Exxon Mobil has rejected allegations that it suppressed climate change research...”
*cough* (not literally)
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