sprinkles
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I refuse (and have for several years now) to debate or discuss the issue of climate change against those who think it is a farce. I kind of slipped with that in the beginning because I didn't want to watch the thread become only that, but alas it did. It is a waste of energy and they don't have arguments to stand on anyway. I stand by this and still refuse to do so.
Nevertheless, I find it painfully ironic that this thread is being hijacked by climate change deniers to push their issues, when the premise of the thread was discussing the issue of the general public disagreeing with the scientific consensus and views of the scientists who have worked on these very topics. Honestly, I also find it to be really sad.
The above that Tellenbach just posted was exactly the kind of thing I just got done talking about too. Notice how it goes nowhere. Look at the comments on the article for the relevant public opinions and a demonstration on how facts do jack all to effect them on either side. There's people commenting about how the author of the article is an idiot and pretty much wrong time and time again so it is rather plain that the article itself does practically nothing except stir up more shitposting. It's not like the readers can do anything about it, most aren't scientists, most can't verify the truth of the article in any way, and it is more simply polarizing than it is informative. Also it totally doesn't have an agenda and there's no agenda going on here and I'm a space penguin from another dimension here to conquer the earth.
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Also I might have actually been interested in what it had to say if I could trust it but I pretty much can't trust hardly anything these days because you never can tell.