Cognitive DissonanceA good question... Posted by DaveH at August 22, 2008 8:29 PM
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 �peque�a era [edad] de hielo�.
Such media behaviour exhibits a classic condition known as �cognitive dissonance�. This is experienced when belief in a grand narrative persists blindly even when the facts in the real world begin to contradict what the narrative is saying. Sadly, our media have come to have a vested interest in �global warming�, as have so many politicians and activists. They are terrified that the public may begin to question everything if climate is acknowledged, on air and in the press, not to be playing ball with their pet trope.