Humans need to become smarter thinkers to beat climate denial | Dana Nuccitelli

A new paper shows that climate myths consistently fail critical thinking testsClimate myths are often contradictory - it's not warming, though it's warming because of the sun, and really it's all just an ocean cycle - but they all seem to share one thing in common: logical fallacies and reasoning errors. John Cook, Peter Ellerton, and David Kinkead have just published a paper in Environmental Research Letters in which they examined 42 common climate myths and found that every single one demonstrates fallacious reasoning. For example, the authors made a video breaking down the logical flaws in the myth 'climate changed naturally in the past so current climate change is natural.' Continue reading...