On the other hand, if you get your political opinions from the XKCD man, you kind of deserve what you epistemically get.
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@MemberOfSpecies the XKCD man is, as you point out, making exaggerated claims about climate science.
@admittedlyhuman @drethelin Refs to palm trees at poles I'm seeing are for the early Eocene, which was warmer, e.g. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182505/Scientists-reveal-green-lush-past-Antarctica--warn-return.html …
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@admittedlyhuman@drethelin "Remove 400ppm of CO2 and all the plants die. Maybe next century we'll add an All The Plants Die Unit of CO2." -
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@admittedlyhuman@drethelin The "ice age unit" move scummily uses the costs of a parameter decreasing to suggest high costs of it increasingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@admittedlyhuman@drethelin One place where the XKCD man could have made a scarier case is by pointing at continued T rise after 2100.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@admittedlyhuman@drethelin But maybe he sort of meant to do that by showing the rightmost part of the graph.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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