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Meta (Facebook) and Cherry Picking

Posted on January 19, 2022 by climatechangefork

A recent announcement from Facebook informed us all that “Connection is evolving so are we … welcome to Meta.” While I was not born there, I grew up in Israel, so Hebrew is my “native” language. In Hebrew, “meta” refers … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | Tagged bias, cherry picking, Climate Change, communication, Education, Godwin's Law, impact, NSF, objectivity, Physics, reality, Science | Leave a comment

Governing Through Denial

Posted on December 4, 2018 by climatechangefork

The consequences of continuing the business as usual activities that result in climate change are not a mystery. We are in the middle of an avalanche of credible reports about the present state of the world and near future prognoses … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Climate Change, IPCC, law, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, administration, air quality, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Balance, bias, black friday, business as usual, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, censor, China, Clean Energy, clean power, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Coal, conspiracy, Donald Trump, doubling time, economic damage, Economics, Economy, Emissions, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Exponential Growth, FEMA, Flood, Flooding, GHG, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Heartland, Heartland Institute, heat, heat wave, hoax, IPCC, Japan, keystone xl, Labor, mortality, NASA, NCA, Policy, Power, Power Plants, RCP, Report, security threat, Thanksgiving, Trump, tweet, US, Weather, WMO, worst, worst-case | Leave a comment

Blurred Lines: Balance, Bias, Kavanaugh, and Fox News on Climate Change

Posted on September 25, 2018 by climatechangefork

My original plan for this week was to focus on President Trump’s complaints that Google’s search engines are biased against him, and his demand that the Justice Department investigate. I found a fitting cartoon by Walt Handelsman. The Justice Department … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Abortion, antarctic ice, Antarctica, assault, Balance, bias, Brett Kavanaugh, Christian, Christine Blasey Ford, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate denier, current events, Damon Centola, Democrat, Donald Trump, Douglas Guilbeault, England, evangelical, Facebook, first amendment, Flood, Flooding, Florence, Ford, fox news, Global Warming, Google, Greenland, ice melt, investigation, IPCC, Joshua Becker, judge, justice, justice department, Kavanaugh, land ice, Murdoch, national geographic, Ocean, partisan, PNAS, polarization, political, politics, rational, rationality, Republican, Roe v. Wade, Rupert Murdoch, sea level, Sea-Level Rise, senate, sexual assault, Social Media, sociologist, sociology, Supreme Court, teach, Teaching, Trump, trust, truth, UK, US, virtue, Water | Leave a comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Posted on November 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week I discussed some issues in terms of psychology of judgement and decision making; I feel that they need some clarification and expansion. I looked at how highly educated Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply in their opinions about the … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, law, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, architecture, belief, bias, brain, business as usual, Cap and Trade, choice, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, council on foreign relations, decision, Democrat, Energy, evidence, fact, following the herd, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, immediate threat, instinct, intuition, irrational, Kahneman, leader, libertarian, libertarian paternalism, loss aversion, meteor, Mitigation, Nobel, nudge, Physics, political, politics, psychology, rational, reasoning, regulation, Republican, Science, smoking, Sunstein, Sustainability, system, Thaler, Tversky, undoing project, William James | Leave a comment

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change

Posted on November 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog looked at the connections between the latest effort to rewrite our tax code and the necessary detailed accounting of the resources we will need to compensate for the increasing damage that climate change will inflict on us … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Election, politics, Sustainability, Trump | Tagged Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, apocalypse, behavioral economics, bias, business as usual, Cass Sunstein, catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, cognitive bias, college, conservation of energy, conspiracy, democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, doomsday, dynamic scoring, Economics, Education, Election, End of Now, Energy, greenhouse gas, high school, human contribution, John Zeller, junk science, just world, loss aversion, Market, physicist, Physics, political elite, psychology, rational choice theory, Republican, Richard Thaler, Science, Social Science, Trump, US, vote, voter | Leave a comment

Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Posted on February 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

Alan Greenspan has been reflecting on the meaning behind Trump’s win and the Brexit vote: The rise of “economic populism” around the world has come from years of low growth that have “seriously impaired” the global economy, former Fed Chairman … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election | Tagged #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, Adaptation, America, Anthropogenic, bias, BREXIT, Capitalism, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, communism, cry of pain, Donald Trump, economic populism, Economics, Economy, Education, esteem, fact, failure, Global Warming, governance, Government, Greenspan, Mitigation, pain, political psychology, politician, politics, populism, psychology, Science, self, self-esteem, self-serving, socialism, success, Sustainability, Trump, US | 1 Comment

Global Family Vacation Part 3: Israel: Palestinian and Jewish Refugees, Resettlement, and the Right of Return

Posted on August 30, 2016 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – A map of refugee camps in the Middle East Successful resettlement is probably the most important aspect of the global refugee issue. Resettled refugees can make major positive contributions to their host societies. We have seen this … Continue reading →

Posted in immigration | Tagged annex, Arab, arab league, Arabist, attitude, Australia, bias, Brooklyn College, camp, choice, Citizen, Citizenship, Civil War, CUNY, document, Egypt, emigrant, emigration, Family, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Holocaust, home, homeland, Human Rights, identity, immigrant, immigration, Iraq, Iraqi, ISIS, Islam, Israel, Israeli, Jew, Jewish, Kuwait, land, Lebanon, middle east, migrant, migration, muslim, opinion, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian National Authority, partition, political, politics, privilege, property, pull factor, push factor, refugee, religion, resettlement, return, right, right of return, Saudi Arabia, security, settlement, Suez, Syria, teach, teacher, treaty, Turkey, UDHR, UN, UNRWA, US, War, west bank, Yemen | Leave a comment

The Politics of the Anthropocene Part 1: The Triggers.

Posted on May 3, 2016 by climatechangefork

Last week I listed three articles that prompted me to shift my focus from the ongoing 2016 presidential campaigns to the more abstract aspects of politicizing the Anthropocene, but I did not have time to speak about the articles in … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, anti-science, Bernie Sanders, bias, binary, campaign, candidate, center, Chernobyl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, conservative, Donald Trump, Economics, Election, Emissions, Energy, Environment, environmental, Fossil Fuels, Fukushima, G.O.P, GDP, Gender, Global Population, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, law, liberal, Mitigation, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, nuclear power, pew, Physics, political, politician, politics, poll, Power Plants, president, progressive, regulation, Science, single story, Sustainability, Technology, TED, US, World Population | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: bias

Meta (Facebook) and Cherry Picking

Governing Through Denial

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Global Family Vacation Part 3: Israel: Palestinian and Jewish Refugees, Resettlement, and the Right of Return

The Politics of the Anthropocene Part 1: The Triggers.

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