The Earth is Cooling. Why does this annoy Liberals?
In some cases, not all of course, it might be a lack of education. Detroit is the most liberal city in the country. Only one in four students in the Detroit system graduate from High School. Gary, Indiana and Newark, New Jersey are among the top five liberal cities and their drop out rates are also abysmal. From Grand Rapids Pundit:
The Detroit News has a short article today on the dropout rate of Detroit Public Schools students. The article states that a report from Education Week, a weekly education newspaper, has done a study showing that Detroit’s dropout rate is 75%. You can view the report’s web page by clicking here.
How can citizens who don't graduate from HS understand the nuances of climate science? They hear someone in their community, some organizer maybe, tell them the earth is heating up, man is responsible and we have to do this or that to stop it. Not being able to evaluate the claims, they believe them. And then, when exposed to facts which contradict what they have been told, they become annoyed.
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The Earth is Cooling. Why does this annoy Liberals?
In some cases, not all of course, it might be a lack of education. Detroit is the most liberal city in the country. Gary, Indiana and Newark, New Jersey are among the top five liberal cities and their drop out rates are also abysmal. Only one in four students graduate from High School in Detroit. From Grand Rapids Pundit:
How can citizens who don't graduate from HS understand the nuances of climate science?
I have a BS in Evolutionary Psychology from University of Arizona and I am currently pursuing a Masters Degree from UT of Austin.
What are you qualifications the both of you?
I am decidedly liberal at this point and extremely proud of my peers.
Seriously, what are "you twos" qualifications to even have a discussion, much less vote?
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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. --Bertrand Russell
As I understand it when looking at climate you really can;t look at such short time spans. I think you have to look at 20-30 year time spans. Anyway this link RealClimate should help illustrate why it is silly to look at such short time periods. What matters is the long term..and in the long term we are warming.
It is all a matter of the window of time you are looking at.
A thousand years ago, Greenland was, well...green.
Ice ages are probably the predominant force in geologic history. Fifteen thousand years ago, my back yard was covered by a mile thick sheet of ice.
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The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. -Dennis Prager
It's an excellent discussion of the signal-to-noise problem and the problems with looking at short-range data. The arguments are directed at global temps, but they actually apply to a broader class of problems that have multiple causes.
One of the main difficulties in studying climate change is that it does not lend itself to direct experimentation. Another difficulty is that there are multiple causes for why the temperature can vary (even on a yearly scale). So, for example, if another force is driving global temps down, it may be stronger than the forces that are driving it up. Now, if whatever is currently driving it down is a periodic fluctuation, then once it is finished, we will go back to even higher temps than we had before (because the greenhouse gases are still increasing).
I guess what I am trying to argue is that those who believe in man-made climate change should not cling to short term increases in temps, and those who do not believe the evidence should also not cling to short term decreases in temps.
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I have a BS in Evolutionary Psychology from University of Arizona and I am currently pursuing a Masters Degree from UT of Austin.
What are you qualifications the both of you?
Ad verecundiam fallacy is effective at times if people respect the authority or credentials. I don't.Mildy interesting yes. But nothing that requires much thought or effort. Which is why I believe such fields have exploded in popularity.
__________________ People had lost faith in government before I ran and it has been getting worse--Barack Obama
I guess what I am trying to argue is that those who believe in man-made climate change should not cling to short term increases in temps, and those who do not believe the evidence should also not cling to short term decreases in temps.
I agree completely.
However, I think it is important to note the recent cooling because it dampens the hysteria.
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