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Re:The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real by EricE on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:18PM (#28722984)
When I was growing up in the 70's the climate fear pR0n was about the impending ice age. There's always something that has to be a crises - otherwise these media types wouldn't be able to drive eyeballs to their stories.
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Re:The scramble to make climate change in Alaska feel real by smolder on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:47PM (#28723246)
The people who pushed that story in the 70s should be ashamed, considering there was more evidence to support a warming theory than a cooling one, even then. Alternatively, they might be pleased if it was some kind of intentional misinformation.
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