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It might come as a surprise to you, but most people can’t reason about life sciences. Climate change is more tricky than the rest, as you can’t make an experiment to prove a theory. Yes, there’re models that can probably prove the point, but 99.9999% won’t get it. So unless you tell people what to think (aka propaganda) there’s no way to convince the masses.

That’s why it’s been explained a countless number of times in layman’s terms. We also have an education system that in theory should be teaching people about it

You have to go a great length to convince children it’s important. My feeling is that most don’t care about natural sciences.

Also, boiling things down to ELI5 means you have to trust the scientists. It’s not like Newtonian physics where you throw a ball and a feather and they fall at the same time in vacuum.

I hope your downvotes are because people don't realise it's sarcasm. It is sarcasm, right?

Someone Role Playing an idiot is just as rude and annoying as an actual idiot.

In fact it might even be worse because they should know better.

This style of "debating" on the internet where people just repeat what they imagine the "other side" think but with implied sarcasm is incredibly unhelpful. It does nothing to further the conversation and exists only for everyone to set out their stall on their position.

I fully understand your point. I didn't find the comment rude or annoying personally. But there is a reality in that comment - my own brother pretty much echoed those words, calling me out for asking him to look at the data. Got pretty angry actually and called climate change "a carbon tax scam" and dismissed me as a fool and rational science as fake. I was genuinely shaken by that as it's not an anonymous internet comments spat, but your own flesh and blood - up close and personal.

Everyone understands it's sarcasm. It's just annoying and unhelpful.

The downvotes are because their comment is pointless and not adding anything to the conversation

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