Comment by NiceWayToDoIT | Hacker News Reader

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It is interesting tone of this article, even now scientist are struggling to convince wide public and policy makers, that global warming is real. Outcry of desperation. I see in that parallel with Covid pandemic:

- "not it is not real"

- "it is just a flu like any other"

- "all things will be ok"

- "oh sh* it is real"

- "f** it is real"

- "we are screwed run for your lives"

- "..."

- "no we have not said it is not real, we ..."

Point being, just shut the fork up and listen scientist in the first place not wasting time. By the way when down vote could you at least comment :D

Edit: Sorry for misunderstanding now I see multiple ways how what I said may come out wrong. Dialog was meant to be voice of non-believers. Global warming science is settled and it is real and may be a threat for all life on planet. What I find strange is struggle smart people need go through to convince people without knowledge that what they say is truth. Like frustration person with vision (scientist) would experience trying to convince blind person about the look of the reality. It is not about knowledge it is about trust. And in this case it seems oil money was blinding factor for many for very long time.

I downvoted you because it’s just not true that being against covid lockdowns means one is scientifically illiterate or doesn’t care about climate change, so it’s a bad analogy.

Covid is much less serious than climate change.

I believe the scientific consensus on the seriousness of Covid (death rate of 1 in 100-200, nonzero but unquantified risk of long-term side effects), and I think our measures to combat Covid were an extreme overreaction. I also think climate change is by far the most serious problem facing humanity and that no reaction would be too extreme.

I agree with you Covid is small percent human problem, Global Warming is almost all life on planet threat. What you have misunderstood from my comment, is that I my comment was about reaction of policy makers, wealthy people and wide public, as it is not in line with level of threat and what smartest people on planet say about that threat.

It is some strange irony of being human - only when we start experiencing issues we perceive it personally as real danger then it becomes real, and often at that time is too late. Way too late.

And we are already 20 years late with global warming fixes. I am not saying it is end of story, but time for making a dent is quickly closing and we are still at the stage of convincing people it is real.

Just look at how hard they try to convince themselves that it's just temporary.

This is the same part of the mind that rejects any thoughts of death, even though we know it's certain for everyone.

Tell me with a straight face all the human industry doesn't affect the weather.

Last two hours I am looking how points on this post going up and down, and only think I can think is - how divided people are about something this is so crucial for their survival.

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