Posted on 09/18/2017 8:35:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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, are typical of the extreme weather events that are likely to become more common as the planet warms.
So why isn’t the public heeding scientists and demanding climate action by politicians that could help deal with these destructive extremes? You can point fingers at the influence of fossil fuel companies, at misinformation from climate deniers and at political obstructionism, notably from a fragmented Republican party. But a much deeper force is also at work: the way our brains function.
Humans aren’t well wired to act on complex statistical risks. We care a lot more about the tangible present than the distant future. Many of us do that to the extreme — what behavioral scientists call hyperbolic discounting — which makes it particularly hard to grapple with something like climate change, where the biggest dangers are yet to come.
Our political institutions can help people focus on the long view by surveying climate impacts on a regular basis, so that each extreme storm is less a novel event and more a part of a pattern that needs sustained policy attention. One model is California’s program of localized climate assessments that inform decisions about land-use planning and development. Another is the Obama administration’s regular, nationwide assessments, which are at risk of termination under President Trump.
Our brains are unfortunately not wired to tackle problems like climate change. With some help we can build policies that enable us to do better. What the storms in the Gulf and Atlantic are reminding the public — for now, if not for long— is that the consequences of failure are big.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I wonder what faulty brain wiring makes humans stupid and dishonest enough to believe that they can control the earth’s climate.
Windows closed............
Man's historical relationship with climate change with a pretty good rate of survival.
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)
lol
the wiring in my brain wont let me accept your hoax?
lol
GOOD! it’s working as it should!
...earthquakes
...meteor showers
...gamma rays
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.
History begins today (every day) for Stalinists.
“We are brilliant and you peons are stupid. Now, why won’t you buy our newspaper?”
The LA Slimes
Irma was 7th, Harvey 16th, by barometric pressure.
History was allowed to begin only when the LA Times said it could. </sarc>
Thankfully, I know how to build a fire.
Yes, folks.
Journalists have absolutely no clue about science.
Of any kind.
This article: QED
(Look it up, LAT cretins.)
Translation: “You are too stupid to understand what is good for you.”
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!
Every one who believes AGW should do his part and stop emittind co2 themselves.
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.
But their brains aren’t wired for such measures.
Hilarious in a way, what angle will they toss at the wall next?!
“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.
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