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Obviously, the arctic is heating up more because heat rises. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night.
by jdblair 11y ago
Obviously, the arctic is heating up more because heat rises.
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all night.
- cryptoz 11y agoI am hopeful that HN will have a useful and productive discussion about climate change this time. Your comment is not helpful to that end. Please consider how important this issue is and refrain from jokes about the catastrophic destruction of our environment and its stability.
- misnome 11y agoIt would be easier to take seriously if it wasn't a pseudo-clickbait title. It's practically; "You won't believe what scientists think about these results!"
- jdblair 11y agoSo serious! I think we can make jokes and still have a serious discussion.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoHow? If jokes were encouraged, they'd naturally float to the top, pushing serious discussion to the bottom. On Hacker News, we might appreciate your joke, but we'll still downvote, because we prefer the serious discussion on the top with the jokes on the bottom.
- dang 11y agoPeople here mostly react adversely to lame/predictable jokes. Exceptionally good ones get the opposite treatment. A current example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11124967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11124967, which currently has over a hundred points. Personally I don't care for it, though pierrec's reply is amusing. But as an example of how the community responds to humor, it's typical. I think scott_s got it right (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7696013). HN isn't against humor, it's against stock humor. Stock humor is internet crabgrass.
- mey 11y agoHN's community generally doesn't joke and tries for informed discussion or constructive criticism. It isn't Fark or Reddit. It's the community norm and is enforced by the people visiting the site.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoI have seen quite a few well received jokes on HN. I've even made one or two myself. But as far as I can remember, those jokes tend to continue towards relevant discussion. A relevant point that can be made without humor, to which humor is added, is continuing the discussion and has a far better chance of being accepted than a joke that, if you took away the humor, leaves nothing to be discussed.
- meggar 11y agoDon't they need to redesign all the climate models now that gravitational waves exist? A giant wave would make the sun closer to the earth and thus global warming.
- Aeolos 11y agoYou are being downvoted for two reasons: 1. No, the existence of gravity waves does not, in any way, impact our climate models. Both because their effect is way too small to change anything, and also because we measure the distance to the sun constantly - these measurements are not affected by the existence or not of gravity waves. 2. Your question appears loaded, as if you are implying "climate scientists were wrong all this time."