Posted on 09/17/2022 12:59:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A team of psychological researchers from Australia is delving into the mindset of those who refuse to buy the notion that man-made climate change is quickly creating an unlivable, barren wasteland on Earth. Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast looked to explain why such “cranks” continue to deny what they call “the reality of climate change, its causes, impacts and the need for mitigatory action.”
The study’s authors — Breanna Fraser, Patrick Nunn, and Rachael Sharman — set out to discover why climate change skeptics think the way they do, beyond what they call “sociodemographic and value factors.” Instead, the study proposed to look at psychological factors involved in climate change skepticism. The study asked 390 Australian participants why they refused to buy the climate change narrative.
“This mixed-methods study investigated whether more malleable psychological factors: locus of control; information processing style; and anti-reflexivity, predicted climate change scepticism above and beyond socio-demographic and value factors,” the study’s abstract declares.
According to the researchers, climate change skeptics were guilty of using “mental gymnastics” in order to deny what they called “the near-universal agreement among scientists on the reality and impact of climate change.”
Near universal? Really? What about the 1,100 scientists — including a Nobel laureate — who recently signed a declaration proclaiming “there is no climate emergency?” Among those scientists were 134 signatories from Australia, the same nation the participants in the survey were from.
The researchers found one very interesting result: Those who actually study an issue instead of blindly relying on government propaganda were actually more likely to be skeptical of so-called climate change.
“Contrary to our predictions, people with high analytical abilities were even more likely to be sceptical about this,” stated study authors Nunn and Sharman in a piece for The Conversation.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
“Thought crimes” coming to a country near you.
So not thinking something someone else tells you to think is a mental disorder? That’s crazy.....
Wow, an entire study based on a logical fallacy, that of begging the question.
More quack research.
Australia and New Zealand are the testing grounds for the Great Reset.
Compliance and obedience are demanded.
Anything other than that, is not acceptable.
1984 was and is a documentary.
The delusional think everyone else is delusional. The Left is clinically delusional.
Recently 1,000 scientists declared the whole global warming thing was BS. So l guess they are all insane.
If you don’t panic and doom over everything, then you’re crazy!
Same mentality with trannies and covid too.
Seriously, Ringling Brothers had a more serious academic institution than this.
These people think sanity itself is a mental illness.
Add Kanadastan as another testing ground.
Yes, my bad. Forgot about Castro Trudeau.
The Soviets sent people who questioned the ‘virtues’ of Communism as psychologically damaged and committed them to mental institutions.
Well, the Soviet Union is gone so no more of that crap there...so now I guess we now need to jail people who question the policies Western governments.
These people are getting dangerous.
““Contrary to our predictions, people with high analytical abilities were even more likely to be sceptical about this,” stated study authors Nunn and Sharman in a piece for The Conversation.”
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Hilarious.
Nunn and Sharma are presented with hard and fast evidence that they are ***NOT*** possessed of high analytical abilities and foolishly fail to appreciate this fact.
"After 30 years of research, mostly focused in the Asia-Pacific region, I have accumulated a degree of expertise in a number of different fields. My primary field is geography, once largely physical in focus, but now straddling various aspects of sustainability.I have also worked on archaeological topics, usually through the lens of palaeoenvironment reconstruction, but also applying my geological training to ceramic mineralogy and radiocarbon chronology. Since 2000, when a coup in Fiji interrupted a planned research programme, I have become interested in myths as potential sources of information about geological hazards, particularly earthquakes and tsunamis." -Perfessor Patrick "Woggy" Nunn, telling you about his 'interest in myths as potential sources of information'
What's that Doctorate of all things climate? "No one knows what is the norm for planet Earth?" Of course we do, it's proven science. You're out of order, Sir.
Oh, down unduh and backwards. ‘ell of a mess mate! The day the climate STOPS changing is going to be a REALLY bad day. Dumbassery Aussie style. 🤔😵🌩✌
Spelled “trueDOH”.
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