Oh burr-u-ther! A “study” is out blaming “psychological barriers” for preventing us from getting all hot and bothered about global warming, er, climate change. From the story:
Psychological barriers like uncertainty, mistrust and denial keep most Americans from acting to fight climate change, a task force of the American Psychological Association said on Wednesday. Policymakers, scientists and marketers should look at these factors to figure out what might prod people take action, the task force reported at the association’s annual convention in Toronto…Numerous psychological barriers are to blame, the task force found, including: uncertainty over climate change, mistrust of the messages about risk from scientists or government officials, denial that climate change is occurring or that it is related to human activity.
Or it could be because there hasn’t been any warming in this decade, the hubristic refusal of advocates like Al Gore to subject themselves to public scrutiny, the zealous attempt by the true believers to stifle debate, and the real uncertainty about the accuracy of computer predictions. Still, I would agree that we doubters have a psychological barrier alright: It’s called common sense.
August 5th, 2009 | 10:33 pm
If we had common sense we wouldn’t be wasting our remaining oil and not preparing for a post-cheap oil world.
August 6th, 2009 | 1:31 am
Separate issue. Conservation, recycling, and good gas mileage are all wonderful. Let’s just try to achieve them for the right reasons. Or just a REAL reason, even.
August 6th, 2009 | 6:58 am
“Common sense” also tells us that climatologists don’t use only the data from “this decade” in reaching their conclusions. You speak of the “hubris” of Al Gore. Look in the mirror.
August 6th, 2009 | 7:55 pm
Well what does anyone expect THEM to say? I’m surprised they say ANYTHING. I wandered into their convention once, while at an animal rights protest in Toronto which if I remember right was protesting what they do to animals in psychology lab experiments, among other things. A whole hotel lobby etc. full of them and the most animate thing I heard any of them say to anyone was, in very subdued tones, hello, nice to see you, to a colleague. It’s like they’re already dead. Then we wonder why we have death culture, after Freud and decades of Ann Landers telling everybody to “get counselling.” Even destroyed police forces, and now we wonder why violent crime is out of control?
HW: Well what about the ’55 Chevy? That wouldn’t be hubris? Or disregard? Well, I still think the Chevy is more important than “climate change,” and that the way Obama is willing to treat perfectly good cars tells us what dangers are in store for humans from him — from him and the death culture, not from global warming.
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