Dr. Benny Peiser 21.08.2008 13:06 +Feedback
Cognitive Dissonance
Mein Freund und Kollege Philip Stott hat eine gute Frage an Umwelt- und Wissenschaftsjournalisten: I must ask a very serious and urgent question of our media. Why do you continue to talk glibly about current climate ‘warming’ when it is now widely acknowledged that there has been no ‘global warming’ for the last ten years, a cooling trend that many think may continue for at least another ten years? How can you talk of the climate ‘warming’ when, on the key measures, it isn’t? And now a leading Mexican scientist is even predicting that we may enter another ‘Little Ice Age’ - a ‘pequeña era [edad] de hielo’. Philip hat auch eine gute Antwort: Such media behaviour exhibits a classic condition known as ‘cognitive dissonance’.