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How your brain stops you from taking climate change seriously
PBS NewsHour ^ | Jan 4,2019 | Nsikan Akpan

Posted on 01/04/2019 4:36:26 PM PST by mdittmar

Action on climate change has been stymied by politics, lobbying by energy companies and the natural pace of scientific research — but one of the most significant barriers is our own minds.

Think about how every town seems to have a traffic intersection that’s needlessly dangerous. No matter how many times you think to yourself, “They should really put in a stoplight here,” you don’t call the proper authorities. (You’re already late for work, and it feels like someone else’s problem to solve.)

Our mental responses to global warming and climate change follow a similar script. What needs to be done is clear enough — stop greenhouse gases from occupying the atmosphere — and yet progress moves at a snail’s pace. Three decades passed between the first report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the international community’s pledge for action through the Paris climate accords.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; climatechangefraud; commiepropaganda; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; pelosi; propaganda; scam; schumer; socialism
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Well,my brain is fine,don't know about them kids in the picture;)
1 posted on 01/04/2019 4:36:26 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

No, most peoples’ brains call BS.


2 posted on 01/04/2019 4:38:08 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: mdittmar

Liberals didn’t pay attention to it until 20 years ago and there’s still no great urgency to it.


3 posted on 01/04/2019 4:38:20 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: mdittmar

My brain is hard to con. The worst nightmare of a leftist.


4 posted on 01/04/2019 4:38:26 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: mdittmar

Has there ever been such a focused attempt to brainwash a population as we are seeing with this climate change garbage?

It must be VERY important to their future plans.


5 posted on 01/04/2019 4:38:59 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: mdittmar

My brain is far normal than idiot liberals who voted for a president who actually thought America has 59 states..


6 posted on 01/04/2019 4:40:05 PM PST by max americana (Happily Fired every stupid liberal at every election since 08' at work. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: mdittmar

It’s all so simple! Who knew that raising taxes and paying gobs of money to India and China could reduce the Earth’s temperature?


7 posted on 01/04/2019 4:41:06 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: mdittmar

Where’s my darned Goebbels ...


8 posted on 01/04/2019 4:41:08 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: mdittmar

So the headline PBS headline says- Anyone with a brain doesn’t take climate change seriously. Works for me.


9 posted on 01/04/2019 4:41:12 PM PST by gibsonguy
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Oh, that explains it. If I don’t buy the global warming scam, I’m mentally ill.

Makes sense.

Sounds like desperation... we must be winning.


10 posted on 01/04/2019 4:41:26 PM PST by Bon mots
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11 posted on 01/04/2019 4:41:57 PM PST by tomkat
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Waaaaa.

nevermind their now “forgotten” prediction that British school children had already seen their final snowfall.

nevermind their mid-80s boast that the oceans would be dead within 20 years.

nevermind the “hockeystick” chart onward and radically upward.

Follow the money. Trillions. It’s a scam.


12 posted on 01/04/2019 4:42:00 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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“If you stupid Deplorables weren’t so stupid, you’d understand that I’m smarter than you. Conversation over. I win.”


13 posted on 01/04/2019 4:42:05 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: mdittmar

Global warming/climate change caused by mankind is as likely as humans causing fog by walking to school in large numbers.


14 posted on 01/04/2019 4:42:31 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: mdittmar

It tells you that humans have managed to make their domiciles almost anywhere from equator to pole! If we should be planting corn in northern Canada, we will probably be smiling about it.

That’s an easy one :-)


15 posted on 01/04/2019 4:42:53 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Have a #11 watermelon while you look for Joe   ;-)
16 posted on 01/04/2019 4:43:03 PM PST by tomkat
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To: max americana

57


17 posted on 01/04/2019 4:44:13 PM PST by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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To: mdittmar

They’ve been brainwashed and don’t even know it.


18 posted on 01/04/2019 4:44:28 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: mdittmar

Real article title:

How your brain stops you from taking radical libtard socialists seriously.

And Thank Christ it truly does.


19 posted on 01/04/2019 4:44:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mdittmar

Didn’t need to read the article to know.

My brain stops me from taking Climate Change(tm) seriously because it’s a load of bovine excrement.


20 posted on 01/04/2019 4:44:37 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Nothing is sometimes the right thing to do, and always a wise thing to say.)
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