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No one "denies climate". Stop being ridiculous. What people deny, because there's no evidence, is human-caused catastrophic global warming.

Funny that it used to be called global cooling. Then it became global warming. And now, surprise surprise, it's just "Climate Change".

> Surely, no one will deny the climate?!

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I've seen, with my own two eyes, the terminal moraines and the photos on a sign where a glacier was 100 years ago, then hiked a couple kilometers up a valley to where it is today, on multiple continents.

I've seen, in my lifetime, dramatic shifts in the climates of places I've lived.

If that's not climate change, what is?

What's the difference? Even if it's not anthroprogenic it is happening and it will destroy large parts of the ecosystem. The cause is irrelevant. Unchecked climate change will inflict trillions in economic damages and billions of lives.

If you don't agree with the fact that this is happening and that we must do something about it, you're a climate denier. Whether we caused it or not (and we absolutely, definitely did) the effect is the same and the solutions are the same.

Jackass.

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