Said Greta Tunberg … a …“mud wizard” robed in a hooded brown cloak appeared to taunt police officers trying to pull their boots loose from the water-logged ground…
The comparison to The Lord of the Rings may seem trite at a time when the stakes are so high. To its supporters, the mine is essential to Germany’s energy security following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
To its opponents… Mordor comparisons are “nice metaphors”... a German civil disobedience movement... told the New Statesman, “ we are fighting in reality, in the real world of capitalism... Tolkien wrote that “the old world will burn in the fire of industry”, and a burning world indeed awaits if coal mining isn’t stopped...
Some more accepted ballots from 2020 provided in part by Gateway Pundit. Just in case you are so flatly dumb, chicken brained, mentally impaired, and loser enough to think that the governments are even trying…..
This is how you add 400,000 DEMOCRAT votes to somewhere like Atlanta in a single election.
Also from Maricopa, unsigned envelopes. The first THREE have the same hand writing.
Hey Democrats, this will not stop until your half of the world can figure out this level of complexity:
A large amount of literature demonstrates that social behaviour can be triggered by environmental cues.
A long-standing debate involves the question of whether such stimuli trigger behaviour directly (i.e. habits) or whether these effects mediate goals. As studies on automatic goal pursuit typically use real-world cues that are already associated with the behaviour and potentially the goal, it is impossible to make strong claims about the nature of the effects. In the present paper, we use a paradigm inspired by the Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) literature to examine how the environment can trigger goal-directed behaviour.
Building on the essence of pro-self and pro-social motives in humans, two experiments explored the PIT effect when the outcomes were framed in terms of self- versus other-interest. Participants performed actions to earn money for themselves or a charity. Each outcome was linked to a different cue. The results showed that a cue predictive of self-interest outcomes facilitated responses instrumental in gaining the outcome, while such specific PIT effect for other-interest outcomes only emerged when participants were free to donate the money. We briefly discuss these findings reflecting on whether the PIT effect in our paradigm is indeed sensitive to the value of social goals.
... After 4 years of bludgeoning by the Trump administration, hope resurged a year ago as a new White House promised to value science. But there have been missteps, the most recent taking place on the heels of another blunder that many saw coming.
Eric Lander, who just stepped down as President Biden’s science adviser and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), was a prominent research figure with a well-known record of bullying and callous actions. With the notable exception of the 500 Women Scientists organization, the scientific community was embarrassingly silent about Lander’s nomination.
Not surprisingly, he is out of the White House because of the same behavioral issues. And yet, in another tone deaf move, the administration just named Francis Collins, the recently retired director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as Lander’s interim replacement as science adviser while asking Alondra Nelson, the OSTP’s deputy director for science and society and an experienced administrator and scholar, to temporarily direct OSTP. Apparently, Biden doesn’t think Nelson is capable of doing both jobs. I disagree and am not staying silent this time.
2016: Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren
hails the dawn of state-of-the-art social engineering in the service of the state:
"As President Obama noted in his Executive Order 13707, behavioral science insights can support a wide range of national priorities including ... accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy.
That Executive Order, 13707, directs Federal agencies to apply behavioral science insights to their policies and programs, and it institutionalizes the Social and Behavioral Science Team...The adminstration is releasing new guidance to agencies that supports continued implementation of The Behavioral Science Insights Executive Order. That guidance will help agencies identify promising opportunities to apply behavioral science insights to their programs and policies."
Though defrauding the EPA led to Lehr's Federal conviction and imprisonment in 1991, he emerged felonious but unbowed and became Science Director of The Heartland Institute, which last week eulogized him as:
"an enthusiastic proponent of... ending the EPA as we know it."
The language we use for climate solutions can exacerbate the cultural divide. Terms such as “regulate,” “restrict,” “cut,” “control” and “tax” are unpopular, especially among conservatives. Perhaps people would be more likely to support solutions described with words such as “innovation,” “entrepreneurship,” “ingenuity,” “market-based” and “competing in the global clean energy race.” The fact that the first significant U.S. climate policy is called the Inflation Reduction Act is another example of how word choice matters.
Credit: Scientific American staff
One way to counter disinformation is to get ahead of it by “inoculating” the public—promoting accurate information and helping people recognize disinformation techniques. Researchers have determined that preemptive messages explaining disinformation techniques while highlighting correct information can be effective in preventing misunderstanding.
This article was originally published with the title "Changing the Language of Climate Change" in Scientific American 328, 2, 64-67 (February 2023)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0223-64
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Susan Joy Hassol is director of Climate Communication, a non profit science and outreach project. She is an award-winning climate change communicator, analyst and author who has been making complex issues accessible to policy makers and the public for more than 30 years. Credit: Nick Higgins
