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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Collective Irrationality and Individual Biases: Climate Change II

Bret Stephens and Uncertainty

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

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