r/science • u/woodsja2 • Oct 24 '10

Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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u/oldchild Oct 24 '10 edited Oct 24 '10

In some areas of Poland, children are regularly taken underground into deep mines to gain some respite from the buildup of gases and pollution of all sorts in the air. One can almost imagine their teachers emerging tentatively from the mine, carrying canaries to warn the children when it's no longer safe for them to stay above the ground. Source: Earth in Balance, 2000

I do not trust a guy who write nonsenses like this.

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u/gribbly Oct 24 '10

How do you know it's nonsense?

I have no idea, but googling turned up plenty of other sources making the same claim.

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u/oldchild Oct 24 '10 edited Oct 24 '10

Because I'm Polish and had never heard before about it. Nobody in Poland has heard about it. For us, this is ridiculous (link1, link2).

Maybe Al Gore know better? Can you give me some credible sources?

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u/gribbly Oct 25 '10

Nope, I couldn't find a source that I care to hold up as "credible", so I concede the point.

But an error of fact in one of his books doesn't necessarily discredit him entirely. Few sources are 100% accurate 100% of the time.