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> I usually flag all of the climate change stuff here, but this one got an upvote.

Wait, you usually flag the articles that show the science for climate change, or the science against climate change - you flag those, but you upvoted a political call to action written by a non-scientist?

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The overwhelming majority of posts here on climate change are mediocre editorials by non-scientists:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/climate+change?sort=by_date

I don't flag the ones that are data-oriented, but do flag most editorials. This one, specifically, was a mark above most of those enough that I found it worthwhile. While Gore is obviously partisan, I find it disingenuous to lump him in with the bulk of partisan hackery on the topic.

It is not, however, disingenuous to lump him in with the mediocre non-scientists.

I hope you know there's a downvote button you can use instead of a flag.

What threshold do you need to get that downvote button? I don't see it yet.

I think I noticed my downvote button showed up around 200 karma?

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