The (Long, Slow, and Painful) Death of Global Warming
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The (Long, Slow, and Painful) Death of Global Warming
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#3Looks like an article about politics to me.
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#4Looks like an article about politics to me.
Judging by how well global warming articles have been doing on HN, I think it is pretty safe to say that hackers are interested in the intersection of science and politics. Myself included.
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#5Looks like an article about politics to me.
Judging by how well global warming articles have been doing on HN, I think it is pretty safe to say that hackers are interested in the intersection of science and politics. Myself included.
Hackers, being inquisitive, thoughtful people, are interested in a great deal of things, politics and economics included. They're topics that are best avoided on internet forums as they generally turn into flame-fests and attract people interested in discussing politics. In my experience at least.
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Yeah, but I would really like C02 not to be classified as a pollutant. I think that's just too extreme.
Re: The (Long, Slow, and Painful) Death of Global Warming
#7Looks like an article about politics to me.
You're right, and this is not even a good article to function as a framework for a discussion of global warming, which is much, much more complicated than the article makes it out to be.
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#8Looks like an article about politics to me.
Judging by how well global warming articles have been doing on HN, I think it is pretty safe to say that hackers are interested in the intersection of science and politics. Myself included.
That's also true, but not a very good reason to submit more global warming articles here, unless the article has something actually new to say about global warming.
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#9Science had little to do with the failure of the anti-Global Warming movement. It's just an example of how bad marketing can be worse than no marketing. They've hit two home runs since the beginning of the movement, "greenhouse gasses" and the "green" trend. Apart from that, it's an incoherent jumble of wishful thinking.
A single sentence from Obama's State of the Union address did more to sell green energy than anything else I've seen in the past decade:
"But here's the thing -- even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -- because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy."
This gives a path to the future: combining American Exceptionalism and Green Energy into the same thought