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by ChuckMcM 4650 days ago
Weird parallel between the NSA revelations and the Global Warming movement, every odd weather event is attributed to global warming, every odd security event it attributed to the NSA.

That said, as I recall the "hack" was a lot less impressive than it seemed (some folks in Google's Linux team were administrators of kernel.org). I do wonder about the lack of a definitive online after action report though. Seems someone dropped the ball on that one.

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That's not a weird parallel, it's confirmation bias. There are both AGW sceptics and AGW believers who draw broad conclusions from localised data when it suits their view. It's a very normal human foible.
Could you stop lying about Climate Science please?
I think that he (she?) was comparing some extra-alarmists' (Al Gore-type) tendencies to attribute every abnormal weather pattern to global warming. We should all agree that crying wolf weakens legitimate claims about climate change and ocean acidification.