Climate change
Cognitive Dissonance
Friday, November 14th, 2008In his book True Believer, the brilliant autodidact and intellectual workingman Eric Hoffer wrote the following:
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
The term cognitive dissonance, which presupposes faith above reason, was popularized (but not coined) by a social psychologist named Leon Festinger (1919-1989), in his seminal work on the subject A Theory of Cognitive [...]
Melting Glaciers?
Monday, October 13th, 2008About a decade ago, Doctor R.J. Braithwaite wrote an article that appeared in Progress in Physical Geography.
In that article, which was peer-reviewed, Doctor Braithwaite tells us how he analyzed 246 glaciers, sampled from both hemispheres and latitudes, between the years 1946 and 1995. This “mass balance analysis” he conducted found that “some glaciers [...]
Can laissez faire handle pollution and climate?
Monday, September 15th, 2008The United States is still the world’s most prosperous nation, and there is still no need to dwell upon this fact because, for the most part, it’s still uncontested.
The point is worth reiterating, however, if only because it stresses a fact which has been touched upon in a previous article. That fact is this:
So long [...]