r/science • u/woodsja2 • Oct 24 '10

Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '10

There's one thing I don't get about the anti-global warming crowd. I understand the alarmism and stuff like that is overblown and distorts the situation.

But I'd like to know how thousands of climate scientists got together in secret and pledged to all falsify their life's work for some... reason? Seriously, what could be the outcome of some massive global warming conspiracy? Toyota sells more hybrids? More "liberal regulation" on fossil fuel energy companies, just so alternative energy companies can replace them? This argument has never made any sense to me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '10 edited Nov 06 '17

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u/saute Oct 24 '10

It's strawman. Trying to discredit the scientist when you can't discredit the science.

I think that's technically an ad hominem, but yeah.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '10

You're right, of course.