Posted on 02/06/2018 5:26:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate myths are often contradictory – it’s not warming, though it’s warming because of the sun, and really it’s all just an ocean cycle – but they all seem to share one thing in common: logical fallacies and reasoning errors.
John Cook, Peter Ellerton, and David Kinkead have just published a paper in Environmental Research Letters in which they examined 42 common climate myths and found that every single one demonstrates fallacious reasoning.
Cook has previously published research on using ‘misconception-based learning’ to dislodge climate myths from peoples’ brains and replace them with facts, and beating denial by inoculating people against misinformers’ tricks. The idea is that when people are faced with a myth and a competing fact, the fact will more easily win out if the fallacy underpinning the myth is revealed. In fact, these concepts of misconception-based learning and inoculation against myths were the basis of the free online Denial101x course developed by Cook and colleagues.
The authors suggest that their six-step critical thinking process can be deployed via social media through ‘technocognition,’ and in the classroom.
Climate denial suffers badly from a lack of critical thinking, which has spread all the way to the White House. Teaching people to think critically can help prevent it from spreading even further.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Since carbon dioxide increased from 3 molecules per 10,000 molecules of air to the very dangerous 4 molecules per 10,000 molecules of air, the earth has come very close to dying. If we allow the air to contain 5 or even 6 molecules of CO2 per 10,000 molecules of air, convection will cease which will stop heat transfer to space, and the air will then have 100 times the heat capacity of the oceans which will completely evaporate while simultaneously rising to cover everything except mount everest
If I had my druthers, it would begin to be taught in school as early as possible.
Nuccitelli is a neo-pagan nut.
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