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.

Powerful special interests like the coal and oil industries have
learned how to halt movement on climate policy by exploiting the fear
people feel when their identities are threatened."

What he does not say is that the meteorologists AND climate scientists
are only people, and they too are vulnerable to protective cognition :-
(

Here is the full article:
http://www.todayonline.com/Science/E...s,-a-real-fear

Cheers, Alastair.

On Sunday 29 August 2010 20:30, Lawrence Jenkins scribbled:

Look Ronnie old son, there's leg pulling and just plain nasty rudeness and
it seems to me the latter is well and truly a characteristic of the
gung-ho warmers.

Funniest thing you've said yet. AGW-deniers like yourself continually accuse
climatologists of being liars and cheats. Sauce for goose, old son.

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: "newsman", not "newsboy".
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." - Carl
Sagan

On Aug 30, 7:30*am, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
"RWood" wrote in message

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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:

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message

.. .

"Alastair" wrote in message
...
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.

In message
,
Alastair writes
On Aug 29, 10:34*am, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message

...





"Alastair" wrote in message
...
This article describes my concerns over global warming and the
[lots of snipping]


Says it all really

http://www.truthistreason.net/pat-sa...global-warming

LOL,

Lawrence,

You really are the top comedian on this newsgroup!

Cheers, Alastair.

Mind you, should the various industrialised nations not get their act
together in a coherent fashion to tackle this problem we may all end-up
living a recreation of the BBC's "Good Life". Whether we chose to do so
voluntarily or not is beside the point given that the nightmare scenario
projections for warming would put a lot of our accepted life-styles at
threat.
--
Tim