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Satire?

empyrrhicist 3y ago
No, this has been pretty well documented and reported. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-predictions-prove-too-conservative/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...
digdugdirk 3y ago
No, actually the truth. The climate change "hype" comes from journalists and editors. The actual research papers are generally very conservative in their estimations, and we've been exceeding the predicted outcomes for decades without making any real changes to improve our situation.
- taylodl 3y ago
  Sadly, this fact isn't all that well-known.
- boondoggle16 3y ago
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  - ceejayoz 3y ago
    What specific problems have historically been made better by "hanging all the journalists"?
    - boondoggle16 3y ago
      I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. Imagine how our society would change if these liars and grifters were not constantly brainwashing our friends and family on the topics of: - Economics - Climate - Health - Social wellbeing
- ajmurmann 3y ago
  Given the conservative estimates by scientists have been exceeded, how far of where the more exaggerated takes by journalists?
  - digdugdirk 3y ago
    Even today we have no way of really answering that question. Climate science is generally aiming for a timeline around 2050-2100. As an analogy - Imagine I told you that if you ate an extra 3000 calories of junk food every day you'd gain a lot of weight. You disagree, for whatever reason, and we carry out the experiment. If a journalist wrote an article on our experiment, and their editor titled it "Ajmurmann about to be 100kg heavier!", when would we be able to tell if they are correct or not? You might be able to make it a week while still being within normal weight fluctuations, but two weeks? Three weeks? A year? And when would we be able to determine the "correctness" of the 100kg number? Comparing that situation to the Earth's climate - We're still in the first month of the experiment, and shoveling junk food into our metaphorical mouths as fast we can.

Satire?

No, this has been pretty well documented and reported. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-predictions-prove-too-conservative/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...

digdugdirk 3y ago

No, actually the truth. The climate change "hype" comes from journalists and editors. The actual research papers are generally very conservative in their estimations, and we've been exceeding the predicted outcomes for decades without making any real changes to improve our situation.

taylodl 3y ago
Sadly, this fact isn't all that well-known.
boondoggle16 3y ago
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- ceejayoz 3y ago
  What specific problems have historically been made better by "hanging all the journalists"?
  - boondoggle16 3y ago
    I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. Imagine how our society would change if these liars and grifters were not constantly brainwashing our friends and family on the topics of: - Economics - Climate - Health - Social wellbeing
ajmurmann 3y ago
Given the conservative estimates by scientists have been exceeded, how far of where the more exaggerated takes by journalists?
- digdugdirk 3y ago
  Even today we have no way of really answering that question. Climate science is generally aiming for a timeline around 2050-2100. As an analogy - Imagine I told you that if you ate an extra 3000 calories of junk food every day you'd gain a lot of weight. You disagree, for whatever reason, and we carry out the experiment. If a journalist wrote an article on our experiment, and their editor titled it "Ajmurmann about to be 100kg heavier!", when would we be able to tell if they are correct or not? You might be able to make it a week while still being within normal weight fluctuations, but two weeks? Three weeks? A year? And when would we be able to determine the "correctness" of the 100kg number? Comparing that situation to the Earth's climate - We're still in the first month of the experiment, and shoveling junk food into our metaphorical mouths as fast we can.