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How to Explain Reality

Posted on January 26, 2022 by climatechangefork

Last week’s blog focused on the name change of Facebook to Meta and on the cherry-picking phenomenon of selectively picking reality to fit our biases and trying to recruit more adherents to our views of reality. The borderlines between virtual, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged cherry picking, fact, Michio Kaku, Penrose, Physics, reality, religion, Science, Stephen Hawking, truth, virtual reality | Leave a comment

COVID and Climate: Learning From One to Use On the Other

Posted on October 27, 2020 by climatechangefork

I have mentioned the concept of “constructive destruction” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic before (June 16, 2020). By necessity, our status quo is being disrupted, but that also means we are beginning to grow in unexpected ways. At … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, politics, Trump, US | Tagged bacteria, Biden, Bill Gates, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Debate, disease, Donald Trump, Economy, elections, Europe, fact, Fauci, fossil fuel, Future, ice melt, Joe Biden, lockdown, Oil, pandemic, Pennsylvania, Permafrost, permafrost melt, president trump, Science, Texas, Transition, Trump, truth, US, virus, zero carbon | 13 Comments

Presidential Debates and Science

Posted on October 20, 2020 by climatechangefork

After President Trump refused to take part in the newly virtual debate following his coronavirus diagnosis, the debate was cancelled. However, the debate didn’t stay cancelled, per se; it merely changed form. Originally meant to be one town hall, the … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Climate Change, Election, Trump, US | Tagged Amy Coney Barrett, anti-science, Biden, Britain, Climate Change, Climate Change Deniers, climate denier, Climate Skeptics, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Debate, Donald Trump, earthshot, Election, Environment, fact, Future, Global Warming, Government, Harris, Joe Biden, judge, Kamala Harris, law, lockdown, Media, News, Policy, politician, politics, president trump, prince william, RBG, ruth bader ginsburg, Science, scientist, Supreme Court, town hall, Trump, truth, UK, US | 10 Comments

Arguing Over Different Realities

Posted on October 6, 2020 by climatechangefork

The morning after it took place, I got an email from my Australian family about the debate: “Well, from what was shown here what a DEBACLE not a debate. Still laughing about Trump making fun of Biden’s son saying he … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Trump, US | Tagged America, apprentice, Australia, Biden, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, Debate, fact, fact check, fake news, Future, lie, moderator, News, Observation, Popperian, president, reality, Science, scientific method, socialist, Trump, truth, US | 9 Comments

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

Bret Stephens and Uncertainty

Posted on May 16, 2017 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – Taken from the 2017 Intelligence Report Figure 1 might look familiar – I took it from the fifth IPCC report (AR5) and showed it in my October 28, 2014 blog where I discussed the IPCC’s use of … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Adaptation, Andrew Revkin, Andy Revkin, Anthropocene, AR5, Argument, Atmosphere, average, Balance, Bret Stephens, Certainty, chemistry, Chinese hoax, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Congress, conspiracy, DNNer, Economics, Economy, Electricity, emission, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, Equilibrium, evidence, fact, feedback, Fossil Fuels, Future, global trend, global trends, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hoax, ice, intelligence, IPCC, journalism, journalist, mechanism, melt, Mitigation, model, NYT, op-ed, Physics, Power, president trump, progress, projection, rational, Report, reporter, scenario, Science, scientist, subscription, Sustainability, Technology, Temperature, trend, Trump, truth, uncertainty, US | Leave a comment

Politicizing Science or Quantifying Governance?

Posted on May 2, 2017 by climatechangefork

I opened last week with a sarcastic sign from the March for Science in New York City. I attended, along with thousands of others in NYC and hundreds of thousands all over the world, in celebration of Earth Day. This … Continue reading →

Posted in administration, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Trump | Tagged Adaptation, alternate facts, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, bottom-up, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Data, database, decision, deficit, defunding, Donald Trump, Earth Day, Economics, Emissions, End of Now, Environment, fact, facts, fake facts, fake news, Fossil Fuels, Future, GDP, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Growth, march for science, message, Microsoft, Mitigation, Now, NYC, political, politics, Science, science day, science fair, sign, Steve Ballmer, Sustainability, Tax, tax reform, Trump, US, USAFacts | Leave a comment

Perspectives

Posted on March 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I had lunch the other day with a classics professor friend. He made a comment that in one of his classes, a student drew a parallel between the geographic pattern of the recent voting in the US and the differences … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Election, IPCC, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, Agriculture, America, America First, American Physical Society, art, Athens, backup, budget, budget cut, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, code, code for science and society, commerce, Congress, dark data, Data, data backup, defense, discretionary fund, DNNer, Donald Trump, eco, eco-friendly, Economics, Education, Election, Electricity, Emissions, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, fact, Fossil Fuels, GDP, geography, Global Warming, Greece, greenhouse gas, Health, History, Holocaust, homeland security, humanities, Israel, justice, Kim Jong Un, Labor, Mick Mulvaney, Military, Mitigation, national endowment, Nazi, NOAA, North Korea, Nuclear, Obama, Physics, politics, Power, priority, public broadcasting, renewable energy, Rex Tillerson, save data, Science, security, software, Sparta, Sustainability, Technology, testosterone, transportation, Trump, trump tower, truth, US, veteran, vote, voter, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto | 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

Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

Posted on February 21, 2017 by climatechangefork

I ended my book on climate change (Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now – Momentum Press, 2011) with the chapter: “The Future, the Past and the Just World Hypothesis.” My wife, an experimental psychologist and now the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education | Tagged Adaptation, alternate fact, Cambridge, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, consensus, debunking, DNNer, Economics, Education, Election, electoral, electoral process, Emissions, Energy, Environment, fact, fake news, false information, Fossil Fuels, George Mason, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, Hypothesis, infection, information, informational vaccine, inoculate, intolerance, just, just world, Market, medicine, method, methodology, misinformation, News, Physics, politicization, politics, prebunking, psychology, rational, Science, scientific journal, scientific method, stock market, Sustainability, theory, tolerance, transmission, true, truth, US, vaccination, vaccine, Yale | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: fact

How to Explain Reality

COVID and Climate: Learning From One to Use On the Other

Presidential Debates and Science

Arguing Over Different Realities

Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Bret Stephens and Uncertainty

Politicizing Science or Quantifying Governance?

Perspectives

Back to Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Back to Psychology: A Vaccine against “Fake News” on Climate Change

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