{"id":33816,"date":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/if-the-catastrophic-weather-events-don%e2%80%99t-get-us-the-irrationality-might-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:43:05","slug":"if-the-catastrophic-weather-events-don%e2%80%99t-get-us-the-irrationality-might-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/if-the-catastrophic-weather-events-don%e2%80%99t-get-us-the-irrationality-might-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"If the Catastrophic Weather Events Don\u2019t Get Us, the Irrationality Might | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_globalwarming.jpg\" alt=\"global warming\" width=\"239\" height=\"319\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><br>What global warming?<\/p><p>What the weather&rsquo;s like affects some people&rsquo;s beliefs about global climate change, a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/13604-weather-affects-global-warming-acceptance.html\">new study found<\/a>: On hot days, they&rsquo;re all over it, but on cold days, they&rsquo;re not so sure.<\/p><p>This is not impressive, people. It&rsquo;s called &ldquo;global,&rdquo; meaning not just what you personally felt when you walked out the door this morning. &ldquo;Climate&rdquo; also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22weather+is+not+climate%22\">means something different from &ldquo;weather&rdquo;<\/a>, and &ldquo;change&rdquo; could mean things will get warmer, colder, or just plain different. On unusually chilly days, these climatically labile folks are 0 for 3.<\/p><p>If only that was the worst of it. A string of studies have shown that people are comically bad at consistently thinking, well, anything when it comes to climate change. Even miniscule differences in what we&rsquo;re up to at the moment or how we&rsquo;re asked can have a big effect on what people think of climate change and what they&rsquo;re willing to do to help. Here are five more ridiculously simple things that get people to change their minds:<\/p><p><strong>What&rsquo;s on TV.<\/strong> I&rsquo;m sure you all remember the 2004 hit film <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319262\/\">The Day After Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>, in which global warming throws Earth into a new ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p04hGBC3f-W-jGQQ-9a3OCIIkpA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p04hGBC3f-W-jGQQ-9a3OCIIkpA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_LDZyLzeHfOM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10908_-lk2yiA7__k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What global warming?What the weather&rsquo;s like affects some people&rsquo;s beliefs about global climate change, a new study found: On hot days, they&rsquo;re all over it, but on cold days, they&rsquo;re not so sure.This is not impressive, people. It&rsquo;s called &ldquo;global,&rdquo; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/if-the-catastrophic-weather-events-don%e2%80%99t-get-us-the-irrationality-might-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}