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Considering that I'm being downvoted to oblivion, I think that there are quite a few climate change deniers on HN, of all places. Wow.
by thewhitetulip 5y ago
Considering that I'm being downvoted to oblivion, I think that there are quite a few climate change deniers on HN, of all places. Wow.
- swader999 5y agoIt's changing but not at a rate that will be of any impact to humanity. We've been warming since the last ice age.
- Tijdreiziger 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/
- swader999 5y agohttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...
- ehsankia 5y ago> It's changing but not at a rate that will be of any impact to humanity Yet here we are, with "once in a century" floods, fires, hurricanes and heat waves happening nearly every year in the past decade. Are you claiming these don't have "any impact on humanity"? > We've been warming since the last ice age. It has gone up and done over the centuries, but absolutely not at the rate that it has been (completely coincidentally) since the start of the industrial age. If you look at any graph of average temperature, there's a huge spike in the past few decades. When in history has there been a sudden spike like this in such a short period of time?
- swader999 5y agoLook at the USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.
- ehsankia 5y agoWhat about Figure 6.5? Why do you conveniently ignore that one which completely contradicts your point?
- swader999 5y agoAnd look at the rate of sea level change since the last ice age: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...
- MattGaiser 5y agoTech attracts plenty of contrarians.
- SilverRed 5y agoClimate change isn't convenient for the value of their stocks.
- connectsnk 5y agoI feel you. Did my part my upvoting your comment.
- thewhitetulip 5y agoThank you. I just don't understand how anyone can be blind to this obvious fact. Mind blowing.
- vardump 5y agoSometimes it's enough just for the link to appear in some particular group on Facebook, Reddit, etc. for similar things to happen. Just give it some time. The reasonable ones will follow.