Scientists, you’ll have to put your findings into coloring-book form if you expect to reach IQ45. That, or wait until a hurricane that wipes Mar-A-Lago off Palm Beach.
I have friends in South Florida, along with previous clients and colleagues, so I don’t make this request lightly.
May the next big storm move squarely over MarALago and blow it off the face of the earth right after the GOP takes away the FEMA hurricane insurance program.
I have a vision of a howling waterspout pouring water and garbage on Mar-A-Lago, ripping it apart as a giant sinkhole opens up beneath it so the whole shebang gets flushed into the bowels of the earth which collapses over it: kind of like the house in the movie Carrie but more violent and wet.
That made me feel better somehow. Jeez I’ve become such a sicko.
Scientists have been saying this for years and years. Global warming = warmer oceans = bigger hurricanes. Now the data confirms the hypothesis.
A friend of mine owns a consulting firm. He employs a number of PhDs who serve his clients.
He tells me many think climate change is a hoax – or say so at least.
Some people are too smart for their own good.
What fields are the PhD holders educated in?
One can be incredibly intelligent and have a PhD and be thoroughly uninformed about fields outside of the specialization.
All that time spent on mastering a single subject and then working in it to advance the body of knowledge leaves less time for looking into other fields.
Oh there’s a lot of blame to go around: top global oil, gas and coal execs, and the politicians they fund. It’s their decades long efforts that’ve led us here.
make your conscience feel better by picturing the gleeful staff safe at the brink of the sinkhole as they watch the golf greens slide in…
Perhaps but climate change is and has been, for sometime, common knowledge
The inland flooding bit is particularly bad from an armageddon point of view. You can reinforce coastlines and build up (though it would be stupid), but you can’t flood-proof a hundred miles inland from every coast. It’s like the Maginot line, only nature.
It’s existence may have been, though some persist in trying to debate it.
But understanding and being able to speak intelligently about the causes, mechanisms, and effects (such as are known/understood) requires deliberate effort and time spent learning.
And without having done so, even people highly educated in other fields can be bamboozled by explanations that can seem reasonable to the uninformed. (And the disinformed.)
Just as an example, my brother in law has a PhD in microbiology.
He is quite capable of learning and understanding the hydrologic cycle. But he wasn’t aware that it ties in to AGW and climate change or how it works until it was pointed out when he started educating himself.
Or that a byte is 8 bits, and that comes from binary notation and that’s why computers measure storage in kilo/mega/giga bytes.
But there is no global warming. Our “president” and “mis-informer-in-chief” tells us so.
Industrial and organizational psychology. My friend, like me, was trained in the hard sciences first. He gets climate change. He did not say all his people are climate skeptics, just a disturbing number of them
Scientists said this last year.
And the year before that. And the year before that. And…all the way back to 1974, when I first heard about the Greenhouse Affect.