(AGW) Melting Arctic Sea Ice - A Real Fear.
On Aug 30, 7:30*am, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
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On Aug 30, 12:06 am, Natsman wrote:
On 29 Aug, 13:55, Alastair wrote:
On Aug 29, 10:34 am, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
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This article describes my concerns over global warming and the
disappearing Arctic sea ice more articulately than I can manage.
The writer holds the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International
Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, so I was pleased to find him backing
what
I wrote in my recent rant.
"But social scientists have identified another major reason:
Climate
change has become an ideologically polarising issue. It taps into
deep
personal identities and causes what Professor Dan Kahan of Yale
calls
"protective cognition" - we judge things in part on whether we see
ourselves as rugged individualists mastering nature or as members
of
interconnected societies who live in harmony with the environment.
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