OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

[forty_three]

^ That just drove me fucking nuts. It's in the wrong thread.

Hey, one man's nuts might be neat to others.

/I say pardon?

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

I gave fair warning, I think.

But it is precisely these sorts of mentalities, the idea that we can debate on facts instead of with them, and that telling people they're wrong when they are, indeed, objectively wrong is somehow bullying them is why we have struggled to solve the energy crisis, the education situation, and our economy.

Yeah, very frightening. A lengthy but good read on the topic:

How facts backfire - The Boston Globe

Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.

 

[Darkstone42]

Yeah, very frightening. A lengthy but good read on the topic:

How facts backfire - The Boston Globe

That is terrifying.

 

[forty_three]

Yeah, very frightening. A lengthy but good read on the topic:

How facts backfire - The Boston Globe

The term "Global Warming". Climate Change is given a friendly name so people can start to get the gist of what is happening. And then people say "How's a snowstorm got anything to do with so-called 'Global Warming'"

*sigh*


I'm gonna go sit in a corner now...

 

[forty_three]

 

[dare2be]

^ I was waiting for the lions to show up.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Yeah, very frightening. A lengthy but good read on the topic:

How facts backfire - The Boston Globe

The term "Global Warming". Climate Change is given a friendly name so people can start to get the gist of what is happening. And then people say "How's a snowstorm got anything to do with so-called 'Global Warming'"

*sigh*


I'm gonna go sit in a corner now...

anyone see VICE this past week ... about drought in Texas and the religious rights response to it

heres the debrief but if you get a chance to see the full 15 minute segment ... its headshakingly good

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

The term "Global Warming". Climate Change is given a friendly name so people can start to get the gist of what is happening. And then people say "How's a snowstorm got anything to do with so-called 'Global Warming'"

*sigh*


I'm gonna go sit in a corner now...

Yeah, the name was definitely a mistake and led to endless "<insert city name here> got 15 inches of Global Warming dumped on it overnight har har" remarks.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

That's got to be from a Japanese game show of some sort.

 

[Darkstone42]

Yeah, the name was definitely a mistake and led to endless "<insert city name here> got 15 inches of Global Warming dumped on it overnight har har" remarks.

One of the core issues is that people think weather and climate are the same thing. They aren't. Weather is a product or symptom of climate, but they are not interchangeable words.

 

[dash]

^ I was waiting for the lions to show up.

Bruce Cockburn is still wondering where the lions are

 

[dash]

One of the core issues is that people think weather and climate are the same thing. They aren't. Weather is a product or symptom of climate, but they are not interchangeable words.

I haven't used this smiley in a while...

 

[IPostedWhat]

Do owls exist? They never answered the question.

That's got to be from a Japanese game show of some sort.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

One of the core issues is that people think weather and climate are the same thing. They aren't. Weather is a product or symptom of climate, but they are not interchangeable words.

They also don't understand the down-the-road impact of things. And I don't mean years or decades in the future, but just the impact of one season on the next.

Like that an abnormally warm summer and fall that raises the temperatures in the Great Lakes several degrees higher than usual can produce more snow in the winter when the cold air from Canada passes over a warmer-than-normal lake and picks up even more moisture.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Never even thought about Jackass. Not surprised though.

 

[dare2be]

So, when it gets cold out and someone makes the remark "so much for global warming", when it gets hot out can I say "so much for junk science"?

 

[evolver115]

One of the core issues is that people think weather and climate are the same thing. They aren't. Weather is a product or symptom of climate, but they are not interchangeable words.

 

[Comeds]

It was cooler this morning than yesterday morning. I think this hole global warming has peeked.

 

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