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Personally I believe there’s a group of people, and I’m not saying you are one, who expect disaster because they hold an opposing political opinion. It’s similar to wanting to see your enemy fail, except seeing your enemy fail also means you fail in this case.

A huge amount of climate research data has been faked. Multiple times “scientists” have been caught for this. Global temperature differences are currently not statistically significant.

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Sure, it's all been a big conspiracy perpetrated by 97% of the world's Climate Scientists. But thanks to a plucky band of right-wing ideologists and oil companies, the truth will be exposed.

Seeing as this is HN and not Facebook, produce your data or go home.

And how do you explain that basically every village in the European Alps (or any other mountain range) has old pictures of how their glacier looked ~100 years ago, where you also see how much lower the tree line was etc. Or all the local legends about winter activities that somehow would never be possible nowadays. There is always some level of fraud in any scientific (or human) discipline but not on such a global scale.

> A huge amount of climate research data has been faked.

Evidence, please? And, just to get my bearings, are we talking about a relatively huge amount or an absolutely huge amount? Because unless it’s a huge amount relative to the overall body of evidence, it doesn’t change the epistemic landscape.

> A huge amount of climate research data has been faked. Multiple times “scientists” have been caught for this.

This was fake news before we had the term fake news. You're chosen news sources have been lying to you about this for a long enough time that you will probably never accept it.

Can you gives any proof of that faked data?

Will you accept a blog post repeating a daily mail article citing a blog post that completely misrepresented a published paper?

Firstly, You're wrong. I'm not going to say you may be wrong, or that you're possibly wrong. Denying climate change is as wrong as claiming the earth is flat. The other replies to your comment should (but probably won't) convince you of this. As well as the vast consensus of scientific (actual, not "scientific") opinion.

Secondly, did you really create an account in order to make that comment? A tip for future comments: If you're going to make contentious claims, it's best to bring some citations to the table.

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