I’m not surprised. It seems like engineers tend to have a strong contrarian streak. Climate change is an ideal target for contrarian tendencies: it’s controvers

I’m not surprised. It seems like engineers tend to have a strong contrarian streak. Climate change is an ideal target for contrarian tendencies: it’s controversial enough to not feel like you’re just tilting at windmills, but it’s still extremely lopsided. And it’s fuzzy enough that a smart person can dig into it and come up with a lot of good-sounding reasons to hold the contrary position. It’s not just climate change. Another prominent example that comes to mind is dark matter. HN posts about dark matter tend to have lots of comments about how it’s a cop-out, or how MOND is a better theory despite failing to match many observations, or whatever.