[grogenaut]

his statement isnt denying climate change, its just saying short term freaky weather happens. And people often use short term weather within statistical bounds as evidence of climate change when it is mor of a long term thing that is statistical to measure.

Read his statement with the missing nod to consensus "while climate change is real" at the beginning.

[bscphil]

Your speculative explanation is incorrect, as is clear from this user's other comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559481

This appears to be a bugbear for them.

[hammock]

What does it mean when dialogue can’t be had without first incensing the air with the quasi-religious rites of “jabs are safe and effective,” “climate change is real and manmade,” “there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud,” “peace be upon him” etc?

[whythre]

It does seem to be a weirdly ritualistic way of quickly signifying that ‘I am on your team, I am not one of the crazy ones; however, I would still like to talk about [touchy subject] without you making baseless assumptions.’