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global warming really should be called "Global Weirding" the fact that a major ice formation is not freezing (coupled with anomalous temp fluxes in other areas

global warming really should be called "Global Weirding" the fact that a major ice formation is not freezing (coupled with anomalous temp fluxes in other areas) IS the model and is the point of concern. in that context, the "child playing with fire" is not taking any kind of notable actions. reasonable people trust scientists across the globe who spend their entire careers studying this who all say the same thing in the same way. we are doing this it is bad it is going to get worse we need to change defying that is idiocy

aristophenes 6y ago
> reasonable people trust scientists across the globe who spend their entire careers studying this who all say the same thing in the same way. This appeal to authority is another example of what I am talking about. It's meaningless because if there was a scientist questioning global warming they wouldn't be able to hold a related job or get funding. Additionally, people tend to conform, especially in fields where your career depends on your reputation. For example, the scientific consensus prior to World War 1 was that citrus didn't cure scurvy, even though it had been doing so for hundreds of years prior and had been scientifically proven before.[1] So people started dying from scurvy again. Even the very well prepared, intelligent polar explorers were unable to deal with it properly even though they researched and planned for it, because they relied on the consensus of the scientific community instead of good science. [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/24149/how-scurvy-was-cured-then-cure-was-lost https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/24149/how-scurvy-was-cur...