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Denying Global Warming Is More Ridiculous Than Denying The Moon Landing |
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Posted by Nilet on Sat Aug 2 19:56:41 2014, in response to For all you Polar Vortex deniers..., posted by bingbong on Thu Jan 9 20:22:02 2014. After all, claiming that the moon landing didn't happen only requires assuming that a few thousand people working for one organisation keep quiet about something they claim happened over 200,000 miles away, which they faked due to the immense political pressure to one-up the Soviet Union. It's absurd, of course— if the NSA can't keep its spying a secret for a few years despite secret-keeping being an essential part of its purpose, do you really think NASA could keep this a secret for decades? There'd be a dozen Ed Snowdens proving it was faked by 1970. Still, it's within eyesight of the outer reaches of plausibility compared to denying global warming.Claiming that global warming is a myth requires assuming that millions of people, from all over the planet, with very different political and economic motivations have somehow managed to keep quiet about something they claim is happening everywhere on Earth where anybody can verify it, in spite of the fact that every single one of them has no incentive to do so and every incentive to tell everything. After all, a scientist who could actually prove that global warming wasn't happening would be world-renowned for his genius and then be able to top it off by collecting a few million in speaking fees from the right wing. |
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