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No, we tend to take what people say at face value. Even if they're fraudulent hacks like James Hansen: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20080624&

• flukus 7y ago
  > Hansen, echoing work by other scientests, said that in five to 10 years, the arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer. That's not even a quote, let alone one in context.
  • baruchthescribe 7y ago
    Run along little gamma. He said it in front of Congress. It's in the Congressional record. There is boatloads of coverage of what he said at the time and his prediction, like all of his others before it, is complete bollocks.