Greg Fishel is a fellow meteorologist who works on air in
Raleigh, NC, and like me he is not afraid to tell the truth about
climate science, in spite of the fact that some his viewers think it’s all a
hoax. Like all of us, he often gets messages via email/social media purporting
to show that he and every major science organization on Earth is wrong, and he
had one just last week.
It turns out that this is a perfect example of how to fool
some of the people all of the time, especially if their preconceived beliefs
make them want it to be true. Science denial in all of its forms relies heavily
on confirmation bias, and cherry picking to inspire doubt. This is true of
vaccines, evolution, the Earth’s age, and especially climate change.
Read the American
Geophysical Union blog by Dan Satterfield - “You Can Fool Some of The People All of The Time.”
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