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Just absolutely floors me we have people in this very thread still "being skeptical" about this issue that's probably the second most-studied thing in science,

• hocuspocus 2y ago
  It's not so surprising. We (the average tech worker on HN) are part of the problem, not the solution.
• bayindirh 2y ago
  Some of these people saw the differences and still deny that anything is changing. a: We had more snow in the past. b: Maybe we have less now because everything is warming up? a: Nah, bullshit. It's just a phase, it'll pass. I mean, we know microcliamtes, city/neighborhood heat traps, their effect on local climate, the effects of greenhouse gases in heat retention and how these effects global climate, heat storage in water and earth... For God's sake, people believe when their app says that it'll rain in 15 minutes, but won't believe it that they'll be broiled in 15 years. It's the same calculations basically! ...and despite all this knowledge and we know what we're doing and how we're doing it, many people deny that we did something to the environment and we're here now. oh, boy.