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by cagenut 2429 days ago
it is really disturbing how relentlessly hacker news reactionaries will downvote anyone who dares phrase the ipcc reports in plain english.

what does it mean to our concepts of reason and engineering if one of the most "technical" self-selected audiences on the internet cannot read basic graphs and charts?

what possible hope is there to get policymakers to base their understanding and decisions in the science if self-professed engineers can't or won't?