"The belief is that the climate is not static and that it’s better for humans to adapt (as they always have) than to commit economic suicide."

Whose belief? I don't understand how belief is relevant.

"This is unpopular online, but is the actual view of a majority of Americans imo" Not true. Most Americans accept the scientific consensus - that recent changes in temperature are driven by human activities: https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/extreme-weather-poll-...

You didn’t read my comment because you aren’t engaging faithfully. I said that most people do believe it’s caused by humans but that humans will have to adapt to it as they have to multiple other changes in climate.

I’m not kidding about you arguing with yourself here. This comment is actual proof

"You didn’t read my comment because you aren’t engaging faithfully."

Except, I quoted most of your comment directly.

"I said that most people do believe it’s caused by humans but that humans will have to adapt to it as they have to multiple other changes in climate."

You absolutely did not say this.

Oh you're one of those climate change denier deniers, who despite decades of video and written evidence to the contrary, are trying to gaslight (word of the year!) people into believing that it was all just a concern over cost benefit analysis and nobody thought it was a hoax. Because that would be stupid wouldn't it.

This has been a lot more common in my experience.

Driven primarily by folks realizing how wrong/ridiculous their views were years ago, and trying to rewrite history.

Funny how I didn’t mention anything about myself yet you still attacked me as if I had. Again, you’re arguing with a climate denier in your head

I was attacking the thing you said, in the comment I replied to:

> I’ve met very few people who believe climate change is a hoax. The belief is that the climate is not static and that it’s better for humans to adapt (as they always have) than to commit economic suicide.

Continuing using oil as we do today might also end in economical suicide. And embracing more green technology might offer more economic opportunities than oil.

I've met many climate change deniers, both in real life and online. They used to be very thick on the ground on sites like this one and particularly on Slashdot. (Ugh, remember "Climategate?) It has been something of a pleasure watching them gradually disappear from sites with more thoughtful readers. Sadly, the reason they're disappearing is because boldfaced climate denial doesn't fly with reasonably intelligent HN folks anymore, given what we can see with our own eyes.

The smarter new ones have switched away from rants about "AGW" and scientists being untrustworthy. They now tell us climate change won't be that bad and we can "adapt."

> The belief is that the climate is not static

It's a justified belief. Climate isn't static. For example, Sahara desert used to be an oasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period