Comment on xkcd : Timeline of Temperature Changes on Earth
Muun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because I can already see the anti-man-made-climate-change crowd shrieking… how do we go about determining global temperatures thousands of years ago?
I can already hear the anti-man-made-climate-change crowd shrieking…
Generally a good source for this use case. You can sort by popular arguments or arguments by type, and for many answers choose from different detail levels, sometimes even languages.
I didn’t find your specific question in their catalogue of answers, but they have a blog post about that topic: skepticalscience.com/two-centuries-climate-scienc…
There is also that group that says it will get warmer naturally, by whatever solar flare etc bullshit ever. So business as usual, can’t change the course anyway so I will buy a second SUV
Centuries of applied critical thinking.
It’s good to ask the question.
The problem is when they refuse to accept the answer.
crawley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very informative but you see, science doesn’t convince the anti-science crowd, pretty much by definition.
Muun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup, but if I’m talking to someone who doesn’t believe in man-made climate change and I show them the xkcd and answer their obvious follow-up question about how we know past temperature, and they STILL don’t want to listen to me… well then I know I can safely never talk to that person again. :)
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Too bad the anti-science crowd are our elected officials. ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ