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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

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To: mdittmar

More nonsense brought to you by the Public BS network.


81 posted on 01/04/2019 5:42:26 PM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: fungoking

My brain keeps seeing AlGore trying to ram his tongue down Tippers throat live, on National TV at the DNC convention... the raging Carthagian was gonna git after some o that right there...


82 posted on 01/04/2019 5:43:59 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: mdittmar

Our brain sees scam written all over this


83 posted on 01/04/2019 5:50:07 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Has there ever been such a focused attempt to brainwash a population as we are seeing with this climate change garbage?

The same type of future doom has been used for political purposes for as long as I can remember. In the 1970s we were all going to be starving and freezing by now due to the upcoming ice age, and running out of oil and food. The "scientists" who predicted global cooling were wrong it seems.

Note that except for a few places the entire emphasis is on political actions, not innovation, technology, etc. as the solution to the supposed future problem.

84 posted on 01/04/2019 5:52:26 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: mdittmar

What they are trying to tell us is, “we’re crazy” if we don’t believe in their GW folly.

The nutcase who started all this was algore, after his sour grapes tantrum about losing to Bush. He went through several iterations of who he was, until someone handed him the “global warming” pacifier.


85 posted on 01/04/2019 5:53:27 PM PST by FrankR (Make America Great Again, and Keep It That Way.)
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To: beethovenfan

Taxpayer funded mind frying.


86 posted on 01/04/2019 5:54:45 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: adorno
Think about how every town seems to have a traffic intersection that’s needlessly dangerous.

In reality, his analogy is more like deciding that you should raise taxes for everyone in town since at some point in the future there might be a dangerous intersection, based on a model of accident fatalities that has been wrong in its predictions for the last 15 years.

But the taxes are only paid by people in one part of the town, while the majority of the cars are owned and driven by people in the other side of the town.

87 posted on 01/04/2019 5:57:06 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: mdittmar

Because I have a working brain. Having CO2 go up from .0022% .0044% of the atmosphere can only put a bunch in the panties of an idiot.

Basically it is like telling us that just one extra corn flake in a huge Costco cereal box is going to kill us.


88 posted on 01/04/2019 6:00:13 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: mdittmar

PBS = publicly subsidized fake news!!!


89 posted on 01/04/2019 6:03:43 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: mdittmar
stop greenhouse gases from occupying the atmosphere

Plant trees, in other words.

90 posted on 01/04/2019 6:13:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: mdittmar

The same thing can be said about government. We all know governments killed 100 million people last century, yet we still give them trillions.


91 posted on 01/04/2019 6:15:33 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: beethovenfan

I live in the Pacific NW. Very low rain and snow so far this year, which means more and worse forest fires next summer. These are no laughing matter. Though I am about 150 miles from any fire over the last ten years, I’ve had ghastly smoke to deal with, requiring outlay of many dollars for smoke filters in order to keep breathing. If you value your lungs and your health, you need to take these overly warm, dry winters very seriously.

Perhaps it will start snowing tomorrow and not stop until May 1. I certainly hope so. NW Canada’s forests burned like crazy over the last few summers, millions of acres of trees and animals going up in smoke. Is that funny?


92 posted on 01/04/2019 6:22:28 PM PST by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: FrankR

Yup. That was completely obvious to anyone paying attention. The Deep State felt so bad for poor Al they gave him awards he didn’t earn and made him the highly-paid “spokesman” for this international fraud which means trillions for them if they can get the rubes to buy it.


93 posted on 01/04/2019 6:44:22 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: mdittmar
PBS is well named ...
94 posted on 01/04/2019 6:45:57 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mdittmar

l8r


95 posted on 01/04/2019 6:57:23 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: mdittmar

Yes, my brain stops me from believing in hoaxes. No doubt about it!

#FakeScience


96 posted on 01/04/2019 6:57:34 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: HotHunt

Well played sir.


97 posted on 01/04/2019 7:00:08 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Veto!

It certainly isn’t funny if you think that has anything to do with GlobalClimateWarmingChange.


98 posted on 01/04/2019 7:00:35 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Veto!

Was I laughing? I believe that “climate change” can very well have natural as well as human-induced causes. This is not even considered by the “warmists”. Based on solar activity correlated with sunspots we might well be entering a significant cooling period.


99 posted on 01/04/2019 7:09:35 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Veto!

Encourage responsible logging to thin those forests and dispose of dead trees and undergrowth that feed the fires. It’s appeasing the radical eco-nuts from the 70s to today that has created the situation we in the West have been dealing with.


100 posted on 01/04/2019 7:10:14 PM PST by JennysCool
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