On Denying Climate Change

[Curmudgeon]

http://www.uu.se/en/media/press-releases/press-release/?id=3454&area=3,8&typ=pm&lang=en

The Psychology Behind Climate Change Denial

Climate change is a serious threat to humans, animals, and the earth’s ecosystems. Nevertheless, effective climate action has been delayed, partly because some still deny that there is a problem. In a new thesis in psychology, Kirsti Jylhä at Uppsala University has studied the psychology behind climate change denial. The results show that individuals who accept hierarchical power structures tend to a larger extent deny the problem.

In the scientific community there is a strong consensus that humans have significantly affected the climate and that we are facing serious challenges. But there is a lot of misinformation about climate change in circulation, which to a large part is created and distributed by organised campaigns with the aim of postponing measures that could combat climate change. And there are people who are more prone than others to trust this misinformation.

Previous research has consistently shown that it is more common among politically conservative individuals to deny climate change. In her thesis, Kirsti Jylhä has investigated this further and in more detail. Her studies included ideological and personality variables which correlate with political ideology, and tested if those variables also correlate with climate change denial.

The results show that climate change denial correlates with political orientation, authoritarian attitudes and endorsement of the status quo. It also correlates with a tough-minded personality (low empathy and high dominance), closed-mindedness (low openness to experience), predisposition to avoid experiencing negative emotions, and with the male sex. Importantly, one variable, named social dominance orientation (SDO), helped explain all these correlations, either entirely or partially.

Social dominance orientation is a measure of the acceptance and advocating of hierarchical and dominant relations between social groups. This acceptance of hierarchies also extends to accepting human dominance over nature. The correlation between SDO and climate change denial can perhaps be explained by considering the many injustices of climate change. Our current wealthy lifestyles are the primary cause of climate change, but the most serious consequences are affecting mainly poor countries and people, as well as animals and future generations of humans.

According to Kirsti Jylhä, it is possible that individuals who accept the unequal distribution of the risks and benefits of climate change, more easily can keep demanding more evidence for climate change before admitting and addressing it.

The question then is how the issue of climate change can best be presented to people with a high SDO to convince them of the need for action.

[The_Field_Ager]

Climate Scientists Laugh at Global Warming Hysteria

 

[The_Field_Ager]

Global Warming Propaganda Explained - Lord Christopher Monckton 2014 NIPCC Convention

 

 

[Rattler]

Psychology influences an individual's demand for proof that climate change is man made, just as it does another individual's demand for crushing regulation, bigger government, huge economic costs, prosecution of those who question if man is the problem and stupid studies seeking to force acceptance by those who question them.  So what?

[Rattler]

P.S.  How is it this person was doing a thesis on the psychology of climate change "deniers", without having to do an unbiased counterpoint about the psychology of climate change supporters?  Why was it allowed to ignore the demands being made on others, by people who basically have not proven climate change is man made, nor the level of effectiveness their "solutions" will have?  I eagerly await the next thesis paper that is "fair and balanced". LOL!

Edited October 11, 2016 by Rattler

[bugsNbows]

Climate change (global warming) is complete BS. Nature is cyclic... always has been... always will be. 

[The_Field_Ager]

Curmudgeon is a true believer, and therefore bereft of facts. No need for 'em when your faith is strong. Don't expect coherent answers to questions. 

[philoshop]

Climate change is in fact happening and has happened continuously since long before humans entered the equation. Blaming it on humans is politics at it's worst rather than real science. The ultimate goal of AGW believers is to crush the U.S. economy so that the Nation can be brought heel amidst the Global rise of Socialism. The whole belief that "everyone must suffer equally" has always been a sickening concept to me.

[LJC]

1 hour ago, philoshop said:

Climate change is in fact happening and has happened continuously since long before humans entered the equation. Blaming it on humans is politics at it's worst rather than real science. The ultimate goal of AGW believers is to crush the U.S. economy so that the Nation can be brought heel amidst the Global rise of Socialism. The whole belief that "everyone must suffer equally" has always been a sickening concept to me.

Yep since before  man the planet has been warming and  cooling in a never ending cycle any impact made by man is negligible compared to what the planet was going to do anyway it's like pissing in a ocean.  In the 70s these same scientist said there was global cooling .

It's just another scam to get founding 

Edited October 11, 2016 by LJC

[greg54]

The only thing true about global warming is that it brings trolls to the politico forum

[fasteddie]

Hildabeast has Al Gore as a Climate Change / Global Warming adviser now . 

 

[philoshop]

I tend to refer to the AWG supporters as "climate scientologists". ;-]

[Rattler]

If the left gets to destroy the economies of the west by implementing their ineffective climate change mandates, we will all be looking forward to the big asteroid hit that's probably going to destroy the world anyway.

[The_Field_Ager]

The Royal Society Climate Change Lecture the Greenies Tried to Nix

 

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Matt Ridley’s annual Global Warming Policy Foundation lecture at the Royal Society in London last night was great – and I do recommend you read the text in full, now that it’s available on the GWPF website.

I’ll just pick a few highlights, one of which was the moment at the end where he described “the maddest thing of all” about the climate change industry.

Essentially, everything it does is a total waste of money...

... Savour that one, greentards. All those bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes you’ve erected; all those banks of stupid solar panels turning agricultural land into a scene out of a bad sci-fi movie; all those forests you’ve chopped down for “biofuel”; all those old people you’ve forced to die in fuel poverty; all those natives you’ve displaced to grow carbon offsets; all those trillions of dollars which could have been spent on something beneficial – healthcare, education, anti-terrorism intelligence, clean water supplies for the one billion people without access to them… – have instead been squandered on white elephant projects which do precisely zilch for the environment.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/18/matt-ridley-climate-change-lecture/

Edited October 19, 2016 by Papist