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Re:Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe? by overallduka on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:04AM (#26302837)
It's not first time the experts make mistakes in their catastrophic predictions:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-e...

And let's not forget our dear Al-Gore saying the ice on the artic would be vanished by 2014 :)

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Re:Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe? by christiansakai on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:25AM (#26303019)
Hmm, for long distance prediction it might be wrong, but for short term predictions, everything seems to get worse. Microplastics, trash in the ocean, warmer ocean, bees dying, etc.
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Re:Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe? by ben_w on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:09PM (#26305048)
Looks like Gore didn’t quite understand what he thought he was quoting when he said that: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/al_gore_trip...
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Re:Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe? by aweiland on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:35AM (#26303699)
Oh look, AEI cherry picking.
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