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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by Izkata on Sunday May 10, 2026 @12:55PM (#48085569)
It's like the climate people never heard the fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". It's exactly that.
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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by idiotsecant on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:19PM (#48085827)
Who are 'The climate people' you seem to think are doing this? Do you think there is a club where the climate people president takes a vote from the climate people council on how many news stories hacknews user Izkata should read?

If you lived under a big precarious rock and people always talked about the big rock falling on you would you ignore the big rock because the big rock people keep crying wolf?

This is honestly the most baffling worldview.

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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by senordevnyc on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:34PM (#48085987)
If you lived under a big precarious rock and people always talked about the big rock falling on you would you ignore the big rock because the big rock people keep crying wolf?

Yeah, that’s exactly what we do, all the time. From nuclear weapons to pandemics to climate change, people become accustomed to the background risks they live under, and go about their lives. Especially when there’s almost nothing they can do about it anyway.

And well-meaning people constantly predicting calamities that don’t materialize only hasten that process.

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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by joquarky on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:35PM (#48087699)
Yes, this is what most people do. If you don't know people like this, then try visiting a large church.
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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by postflopclarity on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:41PM (#48086069)
except that every time the boy cried wolf, there actually was a wolf and it ate some people, but then the people it didn't eat were like "idk what you're talking about, I'm doing just fine" and then plugged their ears.
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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by cagey on Sunday May 10, 2026 @02:45PM (#48086608)
Well that's not how I heard the fable, and not how the authoritative reference recalls it either[0]. If "every time the boy cried wolf, there actually was a wolf and it ate some people", then it would hardly be a fable about giving a false alarm, would it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by postflopclarity on Sunday May 10, 2026 @03:04PM (#48086793)
... yes. that's my point. the fable is not a good analogy in this context.
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Re:Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down by joquarky on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:37PM (#48087724)
Anyone who doesn't get this must have lived under a rock during COVID-19.
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