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I must not pay attention, but how common are climate skeptics on HN?

• krastanov 5y ago
  Might be some confirmation bias on my end, but it seems common, especially if you turn on "show dead comments" in your account settings.
  • Unbeliever69 5y ago
    I didn't know dead comments was a thing. What is the correlation between dead comments and climate denialism being common on HN?
    • krastanov 5y ago
      My bad, I was vague. It is *very* common to see one or two conspiratorial crazy "global warming is a hoax" comments that are just flagged and dead. It also definitely happens, but less reliably, to see "middle brow" "polite but trivially wrong" climate change denialism comments that are either downvoted or dead. I have also seen non-downvoted comments of that nature, but these were not what I was referring to (and they usually have well argued factual responses).
    • scollet 5y ago
      It's more a correlation of dead comments and value added. I haven't seen a compelling denialist argument, so maybe they're dead because they're not compelling? From a distance I'd estimate maybe 40-50% of commenters are in the leaning neutral sceptic to oil apologist zone but I'm probably biased.