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That’s weird phrasing from a paper that declared it all a hoax

• pavel_lishin 3y ago
  - "Global warming isn't real." - "Global warming is real, but not caused by humans." - "Global warming is real and caused by humans, but it's not that bad." - "Global warming is real, caused by humans, pretty bad, but it won't happen as fast as we think."
  • secretsatan 3y ago
    Progress i suppose
    • secretsatan 3y ago
      I’m just waiting for the last iteration, well, it’s happening, and now there’s nothing that can be done, anyway, this is why it happened for very sensible reasons and was utterly unavoidable, i went to a public school btw, then oxford or Cambridge
    • toomuchtodo 3y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
      • pavel_lishin 3y ago
        Sure, as long as a new generation actually has a chance to grow up.
    • kadoban 3y ago
      There is no progress there. The people saying these things are coming up with their plan (do nothing) and then generating a rationale to match. Humans have a great capacity to rationalize, they won't ever run out of excuses.
  • euroderf 3y ago
    - "Global warming is real, caused by humans, pretty bad, but it's far enough along that nowadays we can pretend to feel bad about it while we continue to cozy up to our terraforming reptilian overlords."