Maybe it is the effect of a "confirmation bias". He sees somewhere on Fox News
that the weather will be really cold, and thinks this confirms his theory that
global warming is a hoax - although we all know that climate and weather are
different, and that climate change is real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Nick Thompson
<nickthomp...@earthlink.net> Date: 12/29/17 16:13 (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] Climate Change
This is “our” fault. We have failed to articulate and distribute a language
that adequately relates changes in probabilities of events with changes in
particular events. We say that “harvey” was caused by global warming, but then
we bridle when senators carry snowballs into congress. Yes, this is “our”
fault. Nick Nicholas S. ThompsonEmeritus Professor of Psychology and
BiologyClark Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 1:23 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] Climate Change This is what Donald wrote on Twitter
tonight:"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps
we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but
not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against.
Bundle up!"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/946531657229701120 Only
an idiot would ignore climate change. Is he really this stupid? My god.. -J.
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