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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

Posted on 09/18/2017 8:35:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder what faulty brain wiring makes humans stupid and dishonest enough to believe that they can control the earth’s climate.


21 posted on 09/18/2017 8:54:25 AM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Windows open............

Windows closed............

Man's historical relationship with climate change with a pretty good rate of survival.

22 posted on 09/18/2017 8:54:33 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why the wiring of our brains makes it hard to stop hoaxes like ”climate change”
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

23 posted on 09/18/2017 8:56:41 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

lol

the wiring in my brain wont let me accept your hoax?

lol

GOOD! it’s working as it should!


24 posted on 09/18/2017 8:58:32 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why the wiring of our brains makes it hard to stop

...earthquakes

...meteor showers

...gamma rays

25 posted on 09/18/2017 9:00:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The problem is we have a bunch of Globalist con artist that refuse to give up their con. Harvey was a stalled Cat 3. Irma hit the mainland as a Cat 3. Keys got the Cat 4 and have a mess to rebuild. Florida mainland suffered cat 3 damage. Loss of power due to trees and poles falling.


26 posted on 09/18/2017 9:00:20 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: circlecity

History begins today (every day) for Stalinists.


27 posted on 09/18/2017 9:00:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“We are brilliant and you peons are stupid. Now, why won’t you buy our newspaper?”

The LA Slimes


28 posted on 09/18/2017 9:01:58 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: circlecity

Irma was 7th, Harvey 16th, by barometric pressure.


29 posted on 09/18/2017 9:04:55 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: circlecity

History was allowed to begin only when the LA Times said it could. </sarc>


30 posted on 09/18/2017 9:05:20 AM PDT by Pecos (A Constitutional republic shouldnÂ’t need to hold its collective breath in fear of lawyers.)
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To: 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."

In other words, David G. Victor is a "climate change" whore.
31 posted on 09/18/2017 9:08:10 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: blackdog
I would rather the window not close on my head. :)

Thankfully, I know how to build a fire.

32 posted on 09/18/2017 9:12:59 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, folks.
Journalists have absolutely no clue about science.
Of any kind.
This article: QED
(Look it up, LAT cretins.)


33 posted on 09/18/2017 9:16:01 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Translation: “You are too stupid to understand what is good for you.”


34 posted on 09/18/2017 9:18:04 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why is it that when there is a record snowfall, record cold or some other ‘negative heat event’, these ‘experts’ hasten to assure us that one or two instances does not make a trend, YET these 2 hurricanes PROVE ‘climate change’ and all skeptics must report for forced re-education!

There have been hurricanes in the past and some were whoppers, just ask the bones of the sailors of the Spanish Treasure ships and on through the centuries since. So either the millions of American Bison were the equivalent of our SUVs OR this is just another academic masturbatory exercise!


35 posted on 09/18/2017 9:18:39 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Every one who believes AGW should do his part and stop emittind co2 themselves.


36 posted on 09/18/2017 9:18:44 AM PDT by ully2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Two problems right off the bat:

Los Angeles Times.

Climate change.

"....Our brains are unfortunately not wired to tackle problems like climate change...."

Our brains have nothing to do with it except that most people can see right through this scam by the Left as nothing more than a plan to pick our wallets of our hard-earned money and stuff it into their own pockets.

37 posted on 09/18/2017 9:19:54 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: ully2

But their brains aren’t wired for such measures.


38 posted on 09/18/2017 9:25:57 AM PDT by xp38
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Hilarious in a way, what angle will they toss at the wall next?!


39 posted on 09/18/2017 9:26:03 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: 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.”

Funny! Thanks.


40 posted on 09/18/2017 9:32:14 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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