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it's a hard sell for skeptics because basically every major politically-charged doom-and-gloom x-years-from-now climate change prediction has ended up not comin
by adamrezich 5y ago
it's a hard sell for skeptics because basically every major politically-charged doom-and-gloom x-years-from-now climate change prediction has ended up not coming to pass thus far[0]. obviously it's not like it's literally impossible for such a scenario to occur but at some point when a boy cries wolf enough times over the decades it's hard to take any headline phrased like this one immediately seriously at face value.
[0] https://extinctionclock.org/ https://extinctionclock.org/
- lanstin 5y agoMost of the predictions issued by climate scientists have been correct or overly conservative. We are also seeing just the same amount of warming that Exxon predicted in 1970 in their se ret study. At some point climate “sceptics” are like the people avoiding vaccines. Dumb babies indulging in sophistry while ignoring real actions that can alter reality in massively useful ways.
- adamrezich 5y agoI find the way many people very easily equate covid vaccine skepticism and apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change skepticism, as you've done here, to be incredibly interesting. nothing I wrote above made any sort of correlation or even allusion to any correlation (I did not bring up vaccines) yet you made it yourself, unprompted, and characterized the apparently unified belief system between the two as "dumb babies." there's many conclusions that can be drawn from this that I personally find incredibly interesting but there's probably not much use in expounding on any of this here (flamebait rules etc.)