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It might not be exactly political. We seem to get about a dozen articles per day on climate change and that just gets tiresome. Dedicated climate change blogs a
by burfog 7y ago
It might not be exactly political. We seem to get about a dozen articles per day on climate change and that just gets tiresome. Dedicated climate change blogs are elsewhere. When I look at the new articles just now, 3 out of 30 are obviously about climate change. That's 10%, which is absurd. I probably missed several, because I just looked at headlines. Of course people are going to play whack-a-mole with that.
Flipping your judgement around, did you like the article for political reasons? We could equally well say this: "a few left-wingers very very obviously upvoted it for political reasons and spammed it on to the front page. Which should be actionable." We're not supposed to be doing political battle on Hacker News.
There were other articles that could have been used, without beating a dead horse. Here is one, with an insightful comment section, that doesn't needlessly push the climate guilt trip:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/16/university-of-alaska-faces-major-budget-cuts-could-drop-40-degree-programs/ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/16/university-of-alas...
Even better would be an article that actually lists the degree programs being kept and cut. There should be some concern about the loss of research that would help with petroleum extraction and mining, or a confirmation that those important programs are safe. There could be some mention of HAARP.