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Pedro Domingos destroys climate activists with one simple fact! (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I like how climate-change denying trolls in the replies are mainly advancing these two arguments:

Temperature hasn't been rising over the 20th century, it's only an artefact of changing thermometers
It used to be even warmer during the Roman Empire anyway

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

changing thermometers

speechless

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Temperature hasn't been rising over the 20th century, it's only an artefact of changing thermometers

It's such a dumb argument because while it's true that we have mostly gone over to digital thermometers, for ease of use, the old Mercury thermometers are still available and still work. Manufacturers verify digital thermometers against Mercury thermometers precisely so that a discrepancy like this doesn't happen. Independent verification is very easy, just go on Amazon and order a Mercury thermometer, they're not restricted technology.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You’re assuming a world in which thermometer manufacturers and/or standards bodies validate new technologies against legacy ones for consistency, rather than one in which there’s a directive from the Illuminati lizard people prohibiting any such validation, in order to take free people’s giant SUVs and holiday flights away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I forgot about the lizard people and their ability to control the vaporization point of liquids

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

@echodot @Amoeba_Girl are you assuming that any of them are arguing in good faith?