Extreme Weather Just Might Encourage Us to Get Our Acts Together on Global Warming - Science

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Much has been written about our incredible psychological ability to ignore or gloss over the threat of climate change. According to Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, "the gap between what we know about the interconnectedness and fragility of our planetary system and what we are actually doing about it is alarming. And it is deepening". This gap between knowing and doing can be explained, in part, by our tendency to reach for defence mechanisms in response to the realities of climate change.

Phys.org:  Extreme weather just might encourage us to get our act together on global warming

Ed:  that's not science; it's bloody poetry!

Let's review further, shall we.


It is commonly argued that one reason climate change doesn't have enough psychological or social traction is because it is perceived as distant – in time and space. And so some commentators, including former NASA scientist James Hansen, have predicted that this kind of direct experience of the manifestations of climate science predictions will increasingly bring the reality of climate change home, breaking through established defences, and finally closing the gap between knowing and doing.

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Ed:  more bad poetry.  Pfft

That doesn't obviate the truth of the content, however.  Use of 'gaining traction' as fashionable cliche should give some measure to the overall weight of the article, however.


It's likely the Mainstream won't do anything until the shock factor gets strong enough and Republicans won't do anything regardless.  That's way the fuck too late and way the fuck more expensive than it had to be.  There is only one thing which comes from protracted delay:  greater expense and greater difficulty in effecting whatever change you wish to make.

Even given the shallowness of corporate thinking, they ought to grasp at least that much.

Ed:  but they still don't do anything!

Nope.  When you say you will show them the money, Republicans will follow like you lead them to Jesus.  They won't do anything and there are only two options remaining:  get it done or sit the fuck down and wait for the water to rise further.

Ed:  my, my, that was so poetic!

(takes a humble bow)