how so? i'm not being snarky. i'm attempting to understand the metaphor.
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Replying to @theminorarcana
The rough scientific consensus is that the world is going to get a little warmer (and greener) over the next century. The rest is whipped-up hysteria.
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Replying to @Outsideness
It will certainly have deleterious effects for human life, I guess was my point. Rise in sea level, more intense storms, increased wild fires, droughts, and disease. That's all part and parcel with "a little warmer." & that's assuming methane beneath permafrost doesn't leak
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Replying to @theminorarcana
It's certainly a vastly less serious problem than planetary dysgenic collapse.
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Replying to @Outsideness
could inaction in the face of a clearly defined scientific problem, indeed, refusing despite the opinion of experts to intervene through technology and commerce to deal with a climate problem not be an indicator of precisely the sort of dysgenic collapse you augur?
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... Since the left is doing what it can to usher in a global population incapable -- per your hypothesis -- of responding to the apocalyptic climate panic religion they want to propagate.
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Replying to @Outsideness
While I admit the left has made something of a reverse cargo cult out of environmentalism, I'm less interested in their hysterics than in the science. Indeed, if the left spent more time on the science and economics than the humanism, they'd be better of
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Replying to @theminorarcana
The science consists of multiple hypotheses and simplified models, engaging extremely noisy data, which are converted into dogmatic screeds when adapted to a format for mass consumption.
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Science is supposed to lean against human stupidity, not into it. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @theminorarcana
... A climate scientist who rather than saying "That's interesting" says "We've got to do something (and if it involves lying, that's okay)" has ceased to be a scientist in any serious way.
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