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Think I'll put some sausage in the wind powered barbie tomorrow.
Abnormally high UK temperatures continue
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You can have some fresh sausages that my master picked up when we went for a walk earlier if you want them?
Kier will bring them home...
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Which one is you?
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Aha!
That would be telling!
That would be telling!
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OK - I'll conflate it with a complete pile of nonsense like chemtrails if you'd rather..
Another theory of yours for which you will not find one iota of supporting evidence.
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What I don’t understand is what is it in the mindset of some people which makes them reject science?
They’re faced with a topic about which they know absolutely nothing, in which they have not a shred of a qualification. They see that thousands and thousands of people who do know, and who are qualified say that man-made climate change is happening. They see that for the past 19 years not one national or international scientific body has rejected that finding.
And they decide that all those thousands of experts, and those hundreds of scientific bodies, are all wrong, possibly even lying in the service of some conspiracy or other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial#Promoting_conspiracy_theories
What is it about them which makes them so perverse? What is it which makes them so willing to believe and repeat blatant lies by other deniers?
They’re faced with a topic about which they know absolutely nothing, in which they have not a shred of a qualification. They see that thousands and thousands of people who do know, and who are qualified say that man-made climate change is happening. They see that for the past 19 years not one national or international scientific body has rejected that finding.
And they decide that all those thousands of experts, and those hundreds of scientific bodies, are all wrong, possibly even lying in the service of some conspiracy or other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial#Promoting_conspiracy_theories
What is it about them which makes them so perverse? What is it which makes them so willing to believe and repeat blatant lies by other deniers?
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Care to show where?
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But at what rate?
The latter 2 - no, it hasn't, not world-wide.
As for the distant past, you're talking about changes occurring over 10's and 100's of millions of years, not 10's and 100's like we are now. The rate of increase in global average temperatures we are seeing is utterly unprecedented.
And if you could be transported back to the geological past when you say "it's been hotter than this" you'd be dead within minutes.
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Or any day.
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People like Lirefighter think all those scientists are lying.
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This is your score for the last word there:
This is mine (and almost everybody else's):
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"Listen to me, I'm cleverer than you.." is always the best approach to get people to listen... oh wait
Unfortunately, in the real world, not the one fabricated in echo-chambers, the problem which KB refers to does exist.
And one reading of Dunning & Kruger is that those who exhibit it are the least likely to understand that they do.
We hypothesised that belief in conspiracy theories would be predicted by the general tendency to attribute agency and intentionality where it is unlikely to exist. We further hypothesised that this tendency would explain the relationship between education level and belief in conspiracy theories, where lower levels of education have been found to be associated with higher conspiracy belief. In Study 1 (N = 202) participants were more likely to agree with a range of conspiracy theories if they also tended to attribute intentionality and agency to inanimate objects. As predicted, this relationship accounted for the link between education level and belief in conspiracy theories. We replicated this finding in Study 2 (N = 330), whilst taking into account beliefs in paranormal phenomena. These results suggest that education may undermine the reasoning processes and assumptions that are reflected in conspiracy belief.
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