Tag Archives: perception

The radiating face of Gaia

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Rick Altman

I decided that my review of The Revenge of Gaia, as published by James Lovelock in 2006, was dragging on a bit, so have decided to finish it off. This is therefore the fourth and final part (and thus longer … 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

Have you a distorted world view?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Rick Altman

WordPress started recently supplying statistical data on the geographic origin of viewers of my blog. In so doing, they provide the data in list and map format. The map bothers me greatly because it uses the Mercator projection map (circa … Continue reading →

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