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2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says (theguardian.com)
2016 will very likely be the hottest year on record and a new high for the third year in a row, according to the UN. It means 16 of the 17 hottest years on record will have been this century. From an article on The Guardian:The scorching temperatures around the world, and the extreme weather they drive, mean the impacts of climate change on people are coming sooner and with more ferocity than expected, according to scientists. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report, published on Monday at the global climate summit in Morocco, found the global temperature in 2016 is running 1.2C above pre-industrial levels. This is perilously close to to the 1.5C target included as an aim of the Paris climate agreement last December. The El Nino weather phenomenon helped push temperatures even higher in early 2016 but the global warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities remains the strongest factor.
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Sweden must be full of racist, misogynist DENIERS because they racistly claimed that snow still exists in the world of APOCALYPTIC GLOBAL WARMING and even abandoned their non-patriarchal non-removal of non-existent snow policy: http://dailycaller.com/2016/11...
DAMMIT TRUMP!
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Nothing that can be done now, regardless if you're a supporter or denier. Absolutely nothing.
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You should apply to Harvard with that impressive resume. You'll go right to the front of the line.
Abandon the Paris agreement! Trump is here!
Awww, poor incel beta. Still mad that no woman wants to have sex with your micropeen?
So many errors and tendentious assertions in the article.
Queue the usual global warming kerfuffle....
Just like a 30 year old man says the last 5 years are the tallest he has ever been. The temperature (latest el Nino not withstanding) has been pretty stable the past 20 years, despite increasing CO2. It does not prove the temperatures are rising now, or that it is rising dangerously.
The models are running way too hot, as they are based on unvalidated feedbacks and a politically motivated too high climate sensitivity.
Paris touted a non-scientific 2 degree threshold where bad things are supposed to happen, the 1.5 was just a wish. Warmer is better for humans, plants in general are greening more due to the CO2 food, and food crops are at all time high yields in specific. Most people vacation where it is warmer, they like it. More people die from cold temps than hot ones.
The temperature records are hopelessly corrupted, with many countries caught adjusting data to make it warmer recently and cooler in the past to create a bigger trend. About half the 20th century warming is from adjustments.
With Trump elected, the Paris agreement is pretty much dead. Thanks to all climate deniers who voted republican.
If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Raising taxes makes it get colder out.
It's 1, in the Trump Revolutionary Calendar. It's the 15th of Trumptember.
post 2011 NASA contaminates the satellite data, the raw radiosonde data shows no increased warming since 2000. That is when the truth of 1998 being the hottest year on record was changed.
Just look at these quotes from the article:
> "The El Niño weather phenomenon helped push temperatures even higher in early 2016 but the global warming caused by the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities remains the strongest factor."
(Oh of course)
> "“As the El Niño wanes, we don’t anticipate that 2017 will be another record-breaking year,” said Dr Peter Stott at the UK’s Met Office. “But 2017 is likely to be warmer than any year prior to the last two decades"
Got that? Take away El Niño and we're the hottest in... omg .... 20 years.
On a geologic scale of millions, we're now down to forming conclusions based on a data set of ... 20.
Please send these children back to their safe spaces where they can play with Play Doh and coloring books...
Considering the source...UN is about as reliable as Alex Jones.
UN is a political organization. Or is that in question? It's not a scientific organization. Why should anyone care what a political organization have to say about any particular scientific question? By the very nature of politics, the organization must prioritize its political agenda over unbiased fact-finding.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Luckily for all we Americans, President Bernie Sanders has committed to taking action on global warming, saving the coastal states from massive floods and storms, and ending the massive subsidies for inefficient fossil fuels like coal and oil, while transitioning our workforce to higher paying jobs in solar and wind installation and maintenance, jobs that are 1000 times more than any propping up of a dying fossil fuel pipeline would be.
We dodged one when that Trump guy lost. That was close.
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Meanwhile tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events are at record lows! Exactly the opposite of what Al Gore predicted!
The coldest year on record was also evidence of 'climate change'. Apparently warmer, colder, or the same all is evidence of climate change. Climates change, ice ages happen, and it really has little to do with what humanity is doing or arbitrary co2 emissions.
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Seriously. Did you read the article?
This article says that it's the hottest in 20 years.
Do you understand how patently *meaningless* that is?
We're in the middle of El Niño right now. Take that away and it's the hottest in 20 years. That's it. TWENTY.
That is nothing. It's not *remotely* relevant data for any legitimate form of long term climate analysis. It's a tiny movement over a fraction of a nanosecond of geologic time.
This is fear mongering and weak science.
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Who listens to those leftist kooks? 2016 is almost done with. What kind of politically correct crap do you mean by it will be? Either it was or wasn't you damned snowflakes.
Slashdot used to be a site once where actual nerds/geeks/science majors used to comment on science and technology news. You could learn a lot from their opinions and insights, whether they agreed with your viewpoint or not. Now every time someone posts a Global Warming related story on Slashdot, a 4 story building worth of paid-per-post anti-AGW Trolls, each likely operating 20 - 50 sock puppet accounts, seem to post crap that Global Warming "isn't happening" or "cannot caused by human activity". The mere fact that this happens on a once "free" discussion site like Slashdot leads me to believe that a) Global Warming must be getting VERY bad indeed and b) the Energy Industry is very concerned about financial liability issues arising from this. By this I mean that when AGW starts to cause early deaths, natural disasters, major economic and environmental damage, contagious disease outbreaks and similar trouble in different parts of the world, the industry wants to be able to pretend that "nobody is liable for this because AGW simply does not and cannot exist". For this you obviously need a few hundred million dollars worth of Internet Trolls who flood sites like Slashdot with "IT ISN'T US. IT ISN'T US. IT ISN'T US..." Sad. Very, very sad.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
A few years ago, about this time of year, I was told by a co-worker about how that year was forecast to be exceedingly warm. I pointed out that the year wasn't over and it is quite possible to have an unusually cold November and December to average it out. When January came around I found a news article on how the last year was merely average. When I presented this to that same hysterical co-worker merely two months later and he denied he had made any hysterical comments before.
Now we see people not even waiting until the year starts to make such predictions. Those that get all worked up over it now will be exceedingly forgetful if the predictions fail and have very very good memories if it does. Here's my tiny tiny little mention of this phenomenon. It will be interesting if someone remembers this post and revisits it a year later to see how well I did in my prediction.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
There was a lot of hot air from the elections this year.
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I've always found it fascinating that folks accuse China of generating the most greenhouse gasses and while yes by absolute number of people they probably do that's the worst interpretation of statistics ever. China has a LOT of people, if you believe in equality everyone should have the same chance at the standard of living as everyone else. The problem is that we're a very rich country, so per capita alone we generate per person more emissions than a typical Chinese citizen. We use more resources than a typical counterpart in China. (A lot of the stuff that China produces is sold to us.) and so on. It's like a billionaire asking why they can pay a tax of a 1/2 million dollars as pocket change while that would financially bankrupt the average citizen. As the leading country and the wealthiest we need to contribute a bigger share because it will technically hurt us per person less. If we don't how would we expect someone who might not be able to contribute without literally dying to give up a part of their share?
And it is a problem. Climate change is likely to hit poorer countries first, and when conditions are unsustainable, who's door do you think they'll come knocking on first? If you're the one with all the food and everyone else is starving to death, it doesn't matter if you're armed, you're in deep trouble if you don't share. And it's not like we can't share, we do actually have enough for everyone. It's just, it's hard to give up luxury.
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Slashdot used to be a site once where actual nerds/geeks/science majors used to comment on science and technology news. You could learn a lot from their opinions and insights, whether they agreed with your viewpoint or not. Now every time someone posts a Global Warming related story on Slashdot, a 4 story building worth of paid-per-post pro-AGW Trolls, each likely operating 20 - 50 sock puppet accounts, seem to post crap that Global Warming "is happening" or "definitely caused by human activity". The mere fact that this happens on a once "free" discussion site like Slashdot leads me to believe that a) Global Warming must be nothing to worry about and b) the anti-Energy Industry is very concerned about their loss of power arising from this. By this I mean that when AGW doesn't cause early deaths, natural disasters, major economic and environmental damage, contagious disease outbreaks and similar trouble in different parts of the world, the fear mongers want to be able to pretend that "somebody is liable for this because AGW simply must exist". For this you obviously need a few hundred million dollars worth of Internet Trolls who flood sites like Slashdot with "IT IS US. IT IS US. IT IS US..." Sad. Very, very sad.
So, Man made climate change is a thing, is it real? Who cares, as a Pittsburgh PA resident am I glad that the air here is cleaner than it was 30+ years ago? heck yeah! In the US, we seem to have done much to improve as stewards of our environment, Should we do more? that depends on which side of the political spectrum you fall onto.
If you are serious about pollution (notice, I didn't have to say climate change) I would recommend that you consider not importing from countries that pollute, after all, all your doing is moving the smog etc out of your back yard and into your neighbors. What good is it if we cripple our economy while our competitors are killing us in the trade market? It's pretty simple to level that playing field that doesn't involve us polluting here. as the number one consumer of almost everything, we just don't buy from them until they clean up their act.
I'm sure everyone from our businesses that are being put at a competitive disadvantage to our consumers who want to pay as little as possible and feel good about it would agree that this is what would be best for our mother earth and our economy.
Wait a second - what does this mean 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels? Why are we comparing it to so long ago? If I compare to be 10,000 years ago it will probably be even worse!
Does this mean it has decreased in last 15 years?
It's cool, I think a lot of these anti-science types that have invaded slashdot will soon be under water. You need air to breathe lies so this should solve itself. Consider N. Carolina. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/north-carolina-is-still-underwater-from-hurricane-matthew.html . http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-bans-latest-science-rising-sea-level/story?id=16913782 .
Oh God, just shut up about paid trolls already. No one is getting paid to post to SLASHDOT. Barely anyone reads slashdot. Certainly not people who make policy.
Just move on from Slashdot.
I gave up on fighting against the astroturfers here a few years back... wasn't worth the effort and stress anymore. I can still get good discussion about topics that matter to me at reddit -- just need to stay away from some of the subreddits there.
Every once in a while I come check on Slashdot, and remember anew why I left. The place went to shit once the sockpuppet accounts got critical mass on mod points.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
What if the people posting about paid trolls are actually the paid trolls?
As a disabled black lesbian pagan vegan, I think you're just triggered me.
You should apply to Harvard with that impressive resume. You'll go right to the front of the line.
She doesn't have "high cheekbones".
... when AGW starts to cause early deaths, natural disasters, major economic and environmental damage, contagious disease outbreaks and similar trouble in different parts of the world, the industry wants to be able to pretend that "nobody is liable for this because AGW simply does not and cannot exist"...
So perhaps you are a pup, but I went to college in 1991. At that time, we didn't read Shakespeare or Hemingway or even someone politically palatable like Angelou. No we read a quaint book titled "The End of Fall". It described with many footnotes how the season Fall would no longer visit America in the 21st century. As anyone who survived through the year 2010 can attest its 20 year predictions for perpetual summer were all fantastically incorrect.
Using political hyperbole as a beckoning cry for scientific reason has been going on for my entire adult life so you will have to forgive me if I don't dump all my retirement stock to run out and purchase carbon credits.
Huh? The 16th year of this century (and millennium) is still ongoing, what are they talking about? Even it does end "the hottest", it would still be one (the last so far) out of the 16 years.
Unless you include year 2000, which was, of course, the last year of the 20th century and the 2nd millennium, not the first of 21st and 3rd respectively...
Are we supposed to take scientific advice from people, who can't count beyond ten without taking their shoes off?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I was born and raised in the UK before moving to the US about 15 years ago.
Back then it was considered self-evident by pretty much every person in the EU that global warming was not only real, but very definitely anthropomorphic (man-made), and also inevitably going to kill us all if we didn't do something very tangible about it very quickly, which probably meant significant but necessary lifestyle compromises. Anybody that denied global warming was frankly considered a retard.
After doing significant ongoing research on the Internet I still believe that global warming is very real and anthropomorphic, and even though we don;t have absolute proof, since 99.9% of the scientific community and all indicators point that way, (and for those that don't, all have connections/funding to big oil), it just makes basic common sense to take global warming seriously and do all we can before its too late to do anything.
Fast forward to today. I now live in the US.
I'm honestly amazed by the number of Americans (including some of my best friends and apparently also including our next president) that apparently sincerely believe that global warming is not even happening and is all just made up by the scientists, or worse, just some commie plot.
With Trumps recent announcement of cutting the EPA and appointing Myron Ebell (famous climate change denier) to head the EPA transition team, I've got to ask:
Am I the fool for unduly worrying about our only means of survival, or is the majority of the rest of America the fool for being so willfully ignorant of all the scientific research and the associated danger of ultimate extinction of much if not all life on earth, for a few short-term dollars?
Care to cite that, please? In general, temperatures have been trending upward for quite some time now, so I'm suspecting you're just another moron citing some denier meme you read somewhere.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The ultimate irony is that even Saudi Arabia understands that the age of fossil fuels comes to and end, and prepares accordingly But not the US extremist right wing.
If even a backwards kleptocratic monarchy, rooted in a Middle Ages value system, beats you in terms of mental flexibility, you know that you are truly fucked.
Just move on from Slashdot.
I gave up on fighting against the astroturfers here a few years back... wasn't worth the effort and stress anymore. I can still get good discussion about topics that matter to me at reddit -- just need to stay away from some of the subreddits there.
Every once in a while I come check on Slashdot, and remember anew why I left. The place went to shit once the sockpuppet accounts got critical mass on mod points.
Yeah, I'd been reading for about 12 or 14 years, and I finally gave up. I just can't handle the anti-science and libertarian bros anymore.
Thing is they aren't predicting the weather...weather is a short-term phenomena which is pretty chaotic.
They are predicting *climate*, which is a long-term phenomena that averages out over time and is fairly predictable when you account for all the variables in your model.
It's like trying to predict a single coin flip versus giving the relative odds of the flip over a million flips. Get it now?
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You are right !
Hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, all show no trend except in the warming alarmists minds.
Lives lost due to weather are down.
Story I saw a few days ago about how quickly the land temperature is dropping over last 8 months.
I guess the UN will ignore that data, or it will be labeled as "just weather"
Data for those who say that "deniers" refuse to look at the data. Clearly shows massive cooling.
Lighting your hair on fire will hurt you today. Too much salt may (16% probability) increase your blood pressure which may be the thing that helps kill you, and will certainly put more stress on your kidneys etc, which again may be the thing that kills you eventually. Pollution (of various types) damages populations NOW, whereas global warming is actually beneficial for the first couple of degrees for humanity as a whole, according to the IPCC even (AR5) . So your example was a mirror image of the actual situation.
Incidentally, the alarmists as ever seem keen to confuse weather and climate. We are in the peak of an El Nino. They are hot. next year you'll see cooler temperatures, and who knows, we might even see another pause. That would be funny. None of this has to with climate, which I agree, is getting a little hotter on a decade by decade, on average. Nonetheless the CO2 based models are still getting it hopelessly wrong.
Slashdot used to be a site that didn't discuss global warming every day, or any of the other political bullshit that is used to justify the seeping United Nations encroachment on national sovereignty occurring worldwide.
The reality is simple. No one believes the leftist diatribes any longer. We've been hearing for decades how global warming will kill us all, but no one notices any temperature changes really. We also know that pollution is way down (if you are old enough, you will remember when smog was a real, visible problem). Few believe in the fantasy that racists, and sexists, and homophobes are secret wreckers undermining society. Certainly, decades of claiming every Republican president is the next Hitler has turned out rather absurdly.
In fact, Slashdot of today, versus Slashdot of 2000-2004 is actually a fascinating analysis of just how far the left has declined. There was real substance in those days. Principled resistance to the Iraq war and responses to 9/11. Real resistance to globalism.
Now, it's just "wahh! bad racist! bad sexist! bad homophobe! bad climate change denier! once we are rid of you, utopia!"
He will shut up for once, and America's largest source of hot air will be eliminated.
Don't forget the Russians, who have a vested interest in fossil fuel consumption and use paid trolls in psy-ops campaigns.
I've had interactions here with people who are very likely Russian trolls: very pro-Putin, even pro-Yankuyovych, the disgraced and deposed Ukranian president who embezzled 70 billion dollars from the treasury and built this at a cost of a hundred million dollars of laundered money.
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I agree completely, it's sad to see that the puppets are either swamping the moderator controls or worse still, actually influencing real moderators and commentators to the point that anti-AGW appears to be the more popular stance even on slashdot.
Also, I don't believe industry is going to be able to deny AGW forever. I'd bet that industry heads are doing everything they can to kick the can down the road so that by the time the evidence is truly overwhelming they (as individuals) have collected their bonuses and are out of the picture in terms of personal prosecution so that it is their future replacements who are left standing when the music stops.
Climate change is a hoax. You lost, get over it.
Or:
The professional anti-AGW trolls have campaigned successfully and there are otherwise intelligent people here who honestly believe the BS they have been fed elsewhere.
We saw the same thing here recently when /. was flooded with SJW posts that pushed every tiny LGBTQRSC issue as if it were a matter of fundamental human rights.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
It's already too late. Nobody is really making any serious efforts to address what is a very real problem and we're all going to cop it in the neck as a result. Greed and stupidity will have killed us off better than an asteroid.
At least we have another possible solution to Fermi's paradox - "where are they?" They were clever enough to get themselves into some serious trouble but not clever enough to get themselves out again.
Hillary and Bernie aren't hard denialists like Trump, but they are deniers nevertheless. They think AGW is really happening and must be stopped. But they think a nudge here and there is enough to avert any discomfort. Plans calling for reducing CO2 emissions by 50% by 2050 and the like is really really too little too late.
Say what you will about Putin, at least he admits that Climate Change is real. He's not doing anything about it, but he knows it's real.
Hacker News is decent as far as civil intelligent discourse goes, albeit not much "regular news" to be found there, and the comment layout is such that it makes following a discussion thread more difficult than it need be.
Soylent News is barely even worth your time. The same clique posting and being upvoted, with more than a few of said clique posting the most bogus crap - that gets upvoted... that you can't vote down (unless you're in the regular clique) - even though everyone has 5 mod points/day.
Back before Slashdot was sold the first time, it always seemed (to me) that Slashdot almost always had the right mix of Odd News|Tech News|World News
Today - Slashdot is far too focused on Global Warming and the minutiae of American Politics.
Record high temperature for recent years, but CO2 is flat for last three years. How to reconcile?
Oh, yes, very definitely a record-breaking temperature drop, the like of which has never been seen before!
> The coldest year on record was also evidence of 'climate change'
What, 1910?
Buuuut, seriously folks...Yes. It is part of the evidence. The other part is the 106 years that followed 1910.
https://judithcurry.com/2016/11/12/climate-models-for-lawyers/#more-22472
Climate models infer that all of the warming since 1950 can be attributed to humans. However, there have been large magnitude variations in global/hemispheric climate on timescales of 30 years, which are the same duration as the late 20th century warming. The IPCC does not have convincing explanations for previous 30 year periods in the 20th century, notably the warming 1910-1945 and the grand hiatus 1945-1975. Further, there is a secular warming trend at least since 1800 (and possibly as long as 400 years) that cannot be explained by CO2, and is only partly explained by volcanic eruptions.
Given the uncertainties in equilibrium climate sensitivity and the magnitude and phasing of natural internal variability on decadal to century timescales, combined with the failure of climate models to explain the early 20th century warming and the mid-century cooling, I conclude that the climate models are not fit for the purpose of identifying with high confidence the proportional amount of natural versus human causes to the 20th century warming.
As for predicting the future, Curry said the models are "warming too much":
The IPCC’s projections of 21st century climate change explicitly assume that CO2 is the control knob on global climate. Climate model projections of the 21st century climate are not convincing because of:
Failure to predict the warming slowdown in the early 21st century
Inability to simulate the patterns and timing of multidecadal ocean oscillations
Lack of account for future solar variations and solar indirect effects on climate
Neglect of the possibility of volcanic eruptions that are more active than the relatively quiet 20th century
Apparent oversensitivity to increases in greenhouse gases
There is growing evidence that climate models are warming too much and that climate sensitivity to CO2 is on the lower end of the range provided by the IPCC...
The 21st century climate model projections do not include:
a range of scenarios for volcanic eruptions (the models assume that the volcanic activity will be comparable to the 20th century, which had much lower volcanic activity than the 19th century ... Hence we don’t have a good understanding of the relative climate impacts of the above or their potential impacts on the evolution of the 21st century climate.
a possible scenario of solar cooling, analogous to the solar minimum being predicted by Russian scientists
the possibility that climate sensitivity is a factor of two lower than that simulated by most climate models
realistic simulations of the phasing and amplitude of decadal to century scale natural internal variability.
Year of lies and propaganda by the GOP and the denialist finally hit the mark : people really DO think AGW is an hoax. Repeat a lie often enough and some people will start believe it. After all there is quite an incredible number of holocaist denialist, moon landing denialist and 9/11 "truther". It should not surprise you that there is now a lot of people which believe AGW is an hoax.
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>paid-per-post pro-AGW Trolls
paid by whom ?
half the people on slashdot told me warming has paused for over a decade now.
Could they have been lying ? Never...
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Yet to change this factor for prevention of Global Warming. What other factors you suggest must be taken care for Green house Effect ??
Wow - 16 of 17 of the 'hottest years on record' have been this CENTURY! And when did records begin? Not very long before this century... so more alarmism from the great global warming swindlers.
Don't believe me, research it all for yourself.
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Since Trump already is installing a climate change denier as head of the EPA and wants more smoke stack pollution to be legal we can all assume that pollution and global warming will become amplified rather than resisted. A nation that elects such trash deserves what is going to happen to it.
One can hope... Sitting in the basement of one's mother...
The UN is all about destroying economies so everyone, except them of course, live in squalor. Plain and simple - they cook numbers so if the data says that it was "Normalized" or anything but raw data - it's BS... Plain and simple...
I make energy policy and have read slashdot for 18 years.
Yeah I know right. All those LGBTOMGWTFBBQs claiming they couldn't learn programming because programming languages are fundamentally sexist. All those GBTs claiming rampant discrimination in tech hiring despite there being no GBT CS students.
Oh wait... that was the work of straight white male cisgendered dorks hoping to get laid by accusing GBTs along with the rest of you white male cisgendered folks who just want to work with other talented people of somehow hating cisfemales because cisfemales CAN'T FUCKING PUT ANY EFFORT INTO LEARNING ANYTHING.
Strange that GBTs just don't have that problem. Only cisfemales do. Only cisfemales feel privileged enough that they should just get tech jobs without knowing a single damned thing about how anything works and being too arrogant to give a fuck. Programmer Barbie--a perfect metaphor for the privileged cisfemale who can't fucking do basic fucking algebra.
Oh God, just shut up about paid trolls already. No one is getting paid to post to SLASHDOT. Barely anyone reads slashdot. Certainly not people who make policy.
This is exactly what a paid troll would say!
Who's paying you and how much?
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
College grad here, CS Major. Still come to slashdot because i love the community which always has comments more informative than the article. Not paid to make this post. Haven't seen any other 'shills' for big oil on the site. That said, i am still skeptical about the dangers of global warming, and i am even MORE skeptical of the politicians who offer 'solutions' for it.
How is that an anti-science opinion? If you are indeed a skeptic, shouldn't you remain skeptical about Global Warming alarmists? ESPECIALLY when it comes from the U.N. which is an extremely biased organization with a clear incentive to alarm the world about global warming so they can gain the world government power to tax all carbon emissions.
Says it's a Chinese hoax. And so we must believe him, or else we risk a president who had a private email server in order to please her master Satan.
We have only measured temperature with some precision for a few hundred years so this isn't saying much.