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Author Topic:   Trump and Trump supporters keep using the Y2K Fallacy, and it is driving me crazy
Sarah Bellum
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Message 119 of 190 (888122)
09-05-2021 11:48 AM
Reply to: Message 106 by ringo
08-03-2021 12:40 PM


With all the endless volume on both FaceBook and EvC I'm sure some, perhaps even a lot of useful information comes through both of these. There's hardly any point in making an artificial distinction, FaceBook bad, EvC good, four legs good, two legs . . .
But all this useful information just gets drowned out by the rest of the noise (that post of yours I'm responding to here is a perfect example!). I suppose in the long run more is better than less. If you have a limited number of "official" outlets that are "fact-checked" (by whom, exactly?) you're bound to get more of a Soviet than a Western outlook on life. So, I guess, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom . . .
Anyway, good luck with all that.

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Message 120 of 190 (888123)
09-05-2021 11:51 AM
Reply to: Message 108 by Tanypteryx
08-04-2021 1:33 PM


The prediction involved sea level rise that did not, in fact, happen. The prediction was not about storm surge. Storm surge has hit many times before Sandy (before New York was New York, even!) The Great Storm of 1693, for example, or the 1788 storm that left the Battery in ruins, or the Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane that flooded NY City up to Canal street in 1821, or the 1893 hurricane that washed away Hog Island, or the Long Island Express that hit in 1938.
It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.

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Sarah Bellum
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Message 121 of 190 (888124)
09-05-2021 11:52 AM
Reply to: Message 109 by glowby
08-08-2021 5:41 PM


Re: Made for TV and denier distortions
You are incorrect.
The source was, in fact, James Hansen. His West Side Highway prediction assumed a 100% increase in CO2.
Examining Hansen's prediction about the West Side Highway
There's been about a 30% increase (so far) and the sea level rise measured (so far) is in centimeters, not tens of meters.
Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide | NOAA Climate.gov
You would know this if you'd bothered to read my post
EvC Forum: Trump and Trump supporters keep using the Y2K Fallacy, and it is driving me crazy
Sigh.
Nobody reads my posts. I don't know why I bother posting.

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Message 122 of 190 (888125)
09-05-2021 12:01 PM
Reply to: Message 107 by Percy
08-04-2021 12:19 PM


I posted the sources at
EvC Forum: Trump and Trump supporters keep using the Y2K Fallacy, and it is driving me crazy
I clearly wasn't implying they were some sort of consensus, merely pointing out that if you're going to try to persuade people to do something about the environment (which is a good thing to be doing, whether it involves reducing CO2 emissions or heavy metal pollution or agricultural nitrate runoff or . . . ) it helps if you're accurate, rather than hyperbolic.

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Message 127 of 190 (889379)
11-21-2021 1:26 PM
Reply to: Message 123 by ringo
09-05-2021 2:32 PM


As far as I can see, the "fact-checking" in both places consists of some posters looking at other peoples' posts and doing some research (or not, as the case may be) before making replies to dispute (or agree with) those posts.

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Message 128 of 190 (889380)
11-21-2021 1:27 PM
Reply to: Message 124 by AZPaul3
09-05-2021 5:27 PM


Oh, by all means, scare them.
But if the scary things you say turn out to be untrue, then you've shot yourself in the foot, haven't you?

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Message 129 of 190 (889381)
11-21-2021 1:30 PM
Reply to: Message 126 by Percy
09-06-2021 10:14 AM


If it feels unethical, it probably is. Besides, crying wolf (which is what inaccurate predictions are, really) is unlikely to convince anyone, isn't it?

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Message 144 of 190 (890141)
12-27-2021 6:42 PM
Reply to: Message 130 by vimesey
11-22-2021 3:37 PM


You're missing the distinction between convincing people of things that do not conflict with their current views and convincing people of things that run contrary to their current views.
If you make predictions which turn out to be alarmist hype you may not have problems with people who already believe you (they just shrug it off with the reasonable statement that predictions of the future are never 100% certain). On the other hand, people who are skeptical of you in the first place may have their preconceptions confirmed.

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Message 145 of 190 (890142)
12-27-2021 6:43 PM
Reply to: Message 131 by AZPaul3
11-22-2021 3:58 PM


But the whole point is to convince people to change their behavior so you CAN save the environment. If you shoot yourself in the foot by making predictions that turn out to be alarmist hype, people won't change their behavior and you've endangered the environment.

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Message 146 of 190 (890143)
12-27-2021 6:45 PM
Reply to: Message 134 by Percy
11-23-2021 9:34 AM


I think this started with a discussion about global warming predictions that turned out to be inaccurate.
It's an interesting question, a case of "does the end justify the means?" when you think of how to persuade people to save the planet. Maybe it's like a game of chess. You can sacrifice a lot, if you succeed in checkmating your opponent. If however, you don't succeed, you're in a worse position.

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Message 147 of 190 (890144)
12-27-2021 6:46 PM
Reply to: Message 137 by ringo
11-23-2021 11:06 AM


That's silly. People posting on Facebook post links all the time, to actual facts as often as posters do here.

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Message 148 of 190 (890145)
12-27-2021 6:49 PM
Reply to: Message 138 by Percy
11-23-2021 4:18 PM


I was just speaking to the fact-checking on various online forums, not to party affiliations.

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Message 155 of 190 (891412)
01-29-2022 3:02 PM
Reply to: Message 149 by AZPaul3
12-27-2021 9:05 PM


Re: Ideas For Sale
So, what do you think, is it useful in dealing with such people to cry wolf? To make alarmist predictions that won't stand the test of time?
If yes, why?
If no, what's your alternative?

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Message 156 of 190 (891413)
01-29-2022 3:03 PM
Reply to: Message 153 by ringo
12-28-2021 11:43 AM


That may well be. But a casual glance at this evcforum.net website also will show an inordinate, nay heaping pile of opinions (with or without links).
Even more, a lot of the posts could be characterized as "blather" rather than being dignified with the title of "opinion."
Look at your own post, you know, the cleverly argued one beginning "Bullshit. . . . "

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Message 165 of 190 (892322)
03-05-2022 3:34 PM
Reply to: Message 159 by ringo
01-31-2022 10:50 AM


Perhaps FaceBook has less "information" in relation to chatter compared to evcforum (though the fact that the name of the forum implies that evolution is something to be disputed indicates that . . . perhaps not), but even so, what is your problem? Did someone cite a post from FaceBook that got your goat?

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