Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 549362-30499 3047 days ago
This is not propaganda, it's science. Anthropogenic climate change is a factual reality.

The polar bear is mentioned in the article as a simple example of species whose habitats are changing because of human actions. It's a bad faith argument to suggest that the article is invalidated by this reference.

2 comments

They way I read it is that the changing habitat will hurt the polar bear (now click here to see polar bear starving because it can't find food due to ice melting).

The data does not YET bear(no pun intended) this out and alluding to a viral video is a sympathy play and not anything backed in reality but rather speculation and prognostication.

So by its very nature its propaganda since it's using misleading information to put forward a point of view as absolute truth.

Misleading tactics will always hurt your argument in the long run.

Climate change is real, but that it is anthropogenic? There is no clarity on that at all. I have seen various evidence that has been presented as being "clear evidence of anthropogenic causes" and if you look at it at through specially designed glasses, you might be able to say that.

Climate change covers a vast set of conditions and has a vast set of causes. To claim that anthropogenic causes are the major or only significant causes is "pulling the wool over everyone's eyes".

Since we have essentially no understanding of the causes or interactions in how or why climate changes, the "anthropogenic climate change" leads us to conclusions and solutions that will be ineffective and more than likely be more destructive than stopping and actually doing proper investigations.

All "catastrophic" scenarios so far given by "climate scientists" do not answer where the energy comes from for their scenarios. The energy requirements are so large that this planet would be long dead before their scenarios would play out.

Since even school children can study up on polar bears (and have done so) and see that the "polar bear" story is just propaganda, so can you.

Another thread here on hn was talking about "fake news" and what could/should be done. In that I commented that it is up to people to investigate for themselves the information in question. There are various researchers who are doing interesting research in related fields and showing results that do not fit in the "anthropogenic climate change" mindset.

There are questions being asked and are actively being ignored by climate scientists. Why?