• fox2263@lemmy.world
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    48 minutes ago

    You don’t even have to investigate the science or anything. Just use your own brain and eyeballs.

    I was looking at old family photos of when I was a child, under 10. It was snowing on Christmas Day. On multiple christmases.

    I can’t even remember a time in the last 2 to 3 decades it’s snowed correctly in winter let alone December and bang on Christmas. Sometimes it snows in may.

    Also when we keep getting record setting heatwaves in summer… hello?

    The cult of do your own research managing to not do their own research in the slightest.

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      Just use your own brain and eyeballs.

      We’re going to need something a bit more robust than that I’m afraid. People who fall for conspiracy after conspiracy are using their own brain and eyeballs. Even schizophrenics use their own brain and eyeballs.

      If someone’s childhood photos show snow-free Christmases, is that enough for them to declare climate change a hoax?

      People need to understand the scientific method better. What a hypothesis is, the importance of falsifiability. There is no truth in the universe, you can’t determine what is true and what is false by looking inside yourself, or by trusting your gut. There is no truth. That is the universe we live in.

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    “Even though you don’t understand the science”

    I think that says so much more than any of the other garbage that spills out of his mouth

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      People that say “you don’t understand science” is like saying they don’t understand how science comes to its conclusions. It’s not political. It’s not personal. It’s what is found with an experiment. And then repeated.

      The person doing those has motivations and personal stuff. Everyone does. To say someone manipulated the results based on that and everyone else that repeated the same damn method is baffling.

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        Trump said “I don’t think even Science knows” as if science is some institution or singular entity. They seriously think there some Big Science organization

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    Argument is that if you are not a scientist, you are “stupid/gullible” to believe in science. Greenhouse gases impact on temperature is as certain as gravity, and a spherical earth. Actual greenhouses can be warmed with CO2.

    Forest fire management is something that requires more resources whether or not goal is to destroy human sustainability, or just adapt to our current warming. Insurance savings pay for it.

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    This is thing about these idiot podcasters … they are our modern day snake oil salesmen and religious evangelists on a soap box in the town square. They know how to talk, how to manage a crowd and how to direct, misdirect or massage people’s modes. They have no affiliations other than making money or separating the masses from their money. They’re salesmen that will say anything to keep your attention because it’s your attention that makes them money.

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    2 hours ago

    This has some serious Mac debunking evolution vibes.

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    Well Mel probably thinks it’s a Jewish conspiracy that his house burnt down or something. One too many shrimps on the barbie, eh?

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    Oh Joe, you claiming anybody doesn’t understand the science is actually the funniest thing you may ever say.

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      “random pictures” describes about 95% of the content here. Funny enough, I never knew that rule, but I have made the same criticism as you. Usually get downvotes or told that the term meme essentially shouldn’t have any specific meaning…

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    5 hours ago

    it’s not as impactful when the “victim” can just pull out their wallet and buy a few more mansions anywhere on the planet

    that’s even without assuming they bought enough insurance to be covered 100%