Cognitive dissonance.

care to elaborate?

I would have thought its all there in those two words, but ok.....these people continue to believe in something that is ultimately detrimental to their own well being.

They believe this is bullshit, and that its not real, and that its not worth paying any attention to, and scientists are all fraudulent, and its a giant scam....and if they do nothing to address it, would be better than addressing it.

That, is cognitive dissonance, the ability to hold contradictory beliefs to reality, to your own detriment.

Just wasn't sure which side you were saying had the cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance, I think, is just referring to the holding of two contradictory beliefs irrespective of consequences or reality (I could have cognitive dissonance from a simultaneous belief in the divinity of Jesus and the inerrancy of Mohammad, for example).

So I'm pretty sure that climate change deniers could conceivably see this video and see cognitive dissonance.

But you're not one of them crazies, so good on ya Just had to check.

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I give my upvote for the last minute of the video
If you don't understand science, don't try to teach it to others, please!

Its an important message, but one that needs to be done carefully.....cause it runs the risk of telling people dont bother being interested in science also.

If you get excited about a subject, you want to tell others....but scientific results that are presented in lay, to the public, and discussed by politicians as footballs for their next election cycle, are not the same as the scientific work, reporting and actual interpretation of those results.

So on some level I agree....dont teach science if you dont understand it, but at the same time, the population needs to understand it....we need to make a more concerted effort to show our younger generations what science ACTUALLY is, how its ACTUALLY done at an academic level, how we ACTUALLY interpret things.

I think they would be very surprised to see that very little of whats in these reports are claims of absolute certainty, they are mostly comprised of analytical results showing stastical probabilities based on prior observations and models, and that difference is very fucking important, yet glossed over all too often.