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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@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 …
@admittedlyhuman @drethelin But maybe he sort of meant to do that by showing the rightmost part of the graph.