Re:Ask HN: Climate Denialism on HN?
by dnsworks on Monday February 15, 2010 @01:22AM
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I blame the sensational state of scientific reporting. Content providers have been in a rush to scare people for as long as I can remember.
It feels that anything reported on in the scientific community I read today which gets enough coverage to become "common knowledge" will have that popular stance make several 180° turns over the next decade. The climate feels like it's in the same vein as vaccine links with autism, or drinking wine while you're pregnant.
To quote Operation Ivy, "All I know is that I don't know, all I know is that I don't know nothing."
What I do know is that climate related science has more revenue, and green products are seeing more investment than ever before, and it's now big business.
It feels that anything reported on in the scientific community I read today which gets enough coverage to become "common knowledge" will have that popular stance make several 180° turns over the next decade. The climate feels like it's in the same vein as vaccine links with autism, or drinking wine while you're pregnant.
To quote Operation Ivy, "All I know is that I don't know, all I know is that I don't know nothing."
What I do know is that climate related science has more revenue, and green products are seeing more investment than ever before, and it's now big business.