Why the wiring of our brains makes it hard to stop climate change

Los Angeles Times ^ | September 17, 2017 | by David G. Victor, Nick Obradovich and Dillon Amaya

[Oldeconomybuyer]

David G. Victor is a professor at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy and codirector of the Initiative on Energy and Climate at the Brookings Institution. Nick Obradovich is a research scientist at MIT’s Media Laboratory. Dillon J. Amaya is a PhD student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Desperation.

[rxsid]

We demand the weather (climate) remain static....dammit!!

[circlecity]

"Houston has barely begun to dry out from Hurricane Harvey, and Florida faces a massive rebuilding effort after the Irma catastrophe. These two storms, among the most powerful in American history"

Most powerful? I'd be surprised if they were even in the top 10.

[mulligan]

More BS. Never stops.

[rxsid]

er....”be” static!!

[I want the USA back]

Brains are not wired, idiot. I know you mean that this manner of thinking is inherent in the human mind, and that there is no way to avoid it. Sorry, dummy, but that’s not how it works. There are no inherent ideas or ways of thinking in the newborn brain. What there is is the ability to learn ways of thinking.
Drop the stupid “hardwired” metaphor. Saying the word “wired” over and over again doesn’t make it true.

[CincyRichieRich]

My brain hates NutraSweet, hates sodium saccharin, why???...Because like climate change, they’re FAKE!!!

[Texas Eagle]

These two storms, among the most powerful in American history, are typical of the extreme weather events that are likely to become more common as the planet warms.

A) "Among" is a subjective term.

B) America's history only goes back 240 years or so. How long have we been able to record the relative strength of hurricanes?

[Lurkinanloomin]

The only way to stop Goebbels Warming is for everyone who believes CO2 is a dangerous pollutant to personally stop emitting it. Once they stop exhaling, problem solved.

[Texas Eagle]

by David G. Victor, Nick Obradovich and Dillon Amaya

What? Paul Ehrlich and Rachel Carlson didn't contribute to this pile?

[Uversabound]

relative strength of hurricanes?

I would imagine hurricanes on this globe before God brought life were much stronger.

[Buckeye McFrog]

uhh.....it's hard to stop climate change because it is driven by powerful cosmic forces that are way, way beyond the control of human beings.

[Leep]

I think I see the problem. This guy has wires in his brain.

[stylin19a]

These two storms, among the most powerful in American history, are typical of the extreme weather events that are likely to become more common as the planet warms.

concrete, rock solid info right there.

So, there were 7 previously name storms prior to Harvey.
In 25 words or less, identify their path and the nature of their destruction ?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Texas hurricane history when people were around to write about them. List begins on page 8.

https://www.weather.gov/media/lch/events/txhurricanehistory.pdf

I blame Indian SUVs, Bison passing gas, burning buffalo chips, too many smoke signals.

[Nifster]

As if we can stop the tide or the sun or hurricanes

Such hubris

[blackdog]

"David G. Victor is a professor at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy and codirector of the Initiative on Energy and Climate at the Brookings Institution."

Pretending to know the weather used to be a job our local news anchors performed and we got to make fun of them for being wrong about the weather they promised the next day! Only in the modern body of political advocacy science does a weather man with too many degrees get millions every year for predicting the weather thirty years from now with no more accuracy than my cat.

[blackdog]

And note to the authors........

It's not "Hyperbolic discounting". It's "Hyperbolic Deplorables Discounting".

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because we learned history in school before it was scrubbed.

They have a doomsday show about how if the temperature just goes up two degrees we are all going to die.

Going up two degrees would take us back to the temperature it was when the Roman Empire was around. Humanity was flourishing.

And IIRC we would still be a degree or so below what the temperature was back when the Minoans were flourishing.

Civilization boomed then as well.

Global warming is not problem for people. We like being warm.

Now global cooling on the other hand... that is what kills us.

Both are caused by the sun increasing or decreasing it's output.

There is not a blooming thing we can do about it.

We can only apply our technology to controlling it's impact on us.