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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by tasty_freeze on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:02PM (#21083566)
It is always amusing when climate change deniers, uh, sorry, I mean skeptics, cite historic climate data to try to discredit climate research.

The historical record they cite was collected by the very community of researchers whom they attempt to discredit by those facts. It is as if they think the researchers are unaware of those historical facts and that they never realized that there have been warming and cooling periods before.

It just exposes their motivations: scientists are charlatans who don't understand anything when the climate scientists support AGW, but the data from the same scientists is heralded as the real truth when the deniers/skeptics think it supports their own beliefs.

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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by bequanna on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:47PM (#21084133)
> It just exposes their motivations: scientists are charlatans who don't understand anything when the climate scientists support AGW, but the data from the same scientists is heralded as the real truth when the deniers/skeptics think it supports their own beliefs.

I don’t think that is quite correct. Most ‘climate deniers’ I have spoken with don’t question the competence of scientists, they question their motives and suspect they are simply seeking funding, attention, or both.

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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by pstuart on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:39PM (#21084679)
motives are simple (for both sides):

  advocates = the planet is in peril
  deniers = fossil fuel companies are paying us (or, "I hate liberals")
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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by bequanna on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:50PM (#21085951)
"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."
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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by ryanobjc on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:20PM (#21083805)
There is way too many people like this on hn. I guess this means that HN is essentially 'mainstream' now (at least in SV?), but it's also disappointing.

It's like discovering your close circle of scientist friends has a anti-vaxxer.

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