Category Archives: Confirmation Bias

James Delingpole is full of sheet

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Rick Altman

Hi folks. Sorry for the distinct Lack of blog posts over the last 12 months (it’s a long story I will not bore you with). James Delingpole is the reason that I started blogging four years ago. (If this is … Continue reading →

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Why do our politicians not act on IPCC advice?

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Rick Altman

I am hereby delighted to invite all my readers to indicate (by voting on a question [on the Survey Monkey website] that I have created) why they think our politicians continue to fail to respond effectively to the increasingly stark … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Intergenerational Injustice, IPCC, Politics | Tagged , , | 12 Comments

How NOT to be sceptical

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Rick Altman

In the process of compiling my previous post, I was reminded of this one; and decided it warranted being re-posted in its own right… Originally posted on 7 September 2011, as How to be a climate change “sceptic”, this is … Continue reading →

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TIME is not on the side of David Rose

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Rick Altman

Thanks to Greenpeace for this amazing story: Either David Rose has himself used the real (2007) cover to create the fake (1977) cover – or – he has been a little too ready to believe what he so wants to … Continue reading →

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The ‘threadbare hypothesis’ of climate change

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Rick Altman

This is the Gospel according to Roger Helmer MEP (and Cambridge graduate in Mathematics) – whose non-expertise in the subject leads him to conclude that the climate is not changing; and to equate people concerned about climate change with those … Continue reading →

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Past performance is not a predictor of future results

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Rick Altman

As it says on my About page, “The driver of an accelerating car about to hit a brick wall might well say ‘so far so good’ – but that does not mean that the wall is not there!” — John … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment, Insanity, Junk Science, Politics, Pseudo science, Psychology | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

My book compared to Merchants of Doubt

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Rick Altman

In the Preface to my book, The Denial of Science: Analysing climate change scepticism in the UK, I make clear that it was reading Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, that prompted me to do the research … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Economics, Environment, Merchants of Doubt, Politics, Richard Lindzen | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

ACD and AGW – spot the difference

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Rick Altman

What we know is this: As a whole (including the oceans), on average, over the long term, the Earth is getting warmer; and that it is doing so at a rate equivalent to – or in excess of – that … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Environment, Scepticism | Tagged , , | 11 Comments

You know we’re in trouble when…

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Rick Altman

…The Sunday Telegraph starts advocating polices that will accelerate anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD). Two days ago, one of Britain’s oldest and most-respected broadsheet newspapers decided to shred the last few bits of credibility it might have had by publishing an … Continue reading →

Posted in Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Denial, Economics, Environment, Insanity, Intergenerational Injustice, Junk Science, Politics, Populism, Pseudo science | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Try not to be dogmatic about this

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Rick Altman

‘The Science Delusion’ by Rupert Sheldrake I was rummaging around on the blog of someone who recently re-blogged something of mine, when I found the post below and decided I just had to do the same (i.e. re-blog it). The … Continue reading →

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