Marko, Soon et al: To Put America First Is to Put Our Planet’s Climate First
17 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
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The article below was contributed by Istvan Marko, J. Scott Armstrong, William M. Briggs, Kesten Green, Hermann Harde, David R. Legates, Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, and Willie Soon.
On June 2, 2017, in a Letter regarding US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement addressed to the MIT community, Professor Rafael Reif, president of MIT, criticized President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Accords. In this refutation, we propose to clarify the scientific understanding of the Earth’s climate and to dispel the expensively fostered popular delusion that man-made global warming will be dangerous and that, therefore, the Paris Agreement would be beneficial.
Professor Reif wrote, “Yesterday, the White House took the position that the Paris climate agreement – a landmark effort to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions – was a bad deal for America.”
There is no science unambiguously establishing that CO2 is the chief cause of the warming…
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Consent to risk fallacy
17 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
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A common argument against counter-terrorism measures is that more people are killed each year by road accidents than by terrorists. Whilst this point may be true, it is a false analogy and a red herring argument about counter-terrorism.
Whenever we travel in a car or even walk along a footpath, most people are aware that there is a small but finite risk of being injured or killed. Yet this risk does not keep us away from roads. We intuitively make an informal risk assessment that the level of this risk is acceptable in the circumstances. In other words, we consent to take the risk of travelling in cars or walking along footpaths, because we decide that the low level of risk in these circumstances does not outweigh the benefits of using roads.
On the other hand, in western countries we do not consent to take the risk of being murdered…
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Why conspiracy theories are rational to believe Cass Sunstein
17 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theories, political psychology
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