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.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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 …4 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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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."1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@MemberOfSpecies@drethelin I feel like I maybe played my card too soon10 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@admittedlyhuman@drethelin That's all based on IPCC estimates, which some people think are too pessimistic, e.g. http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2014/02/A-Sensitive-Matter-Foreword-inc.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman@drethelin Here's some reasonable-seeming discussion of that issue http://www.climatedialogue.org/climate-sensitivity-and-transient-climate-response/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@admittedlyhuman @drethelin One interesting thing is the confidence interval stayed the same across some amount of data/theory change.
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