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Nah man, I'm not a search engine, but I can recommend one: Google or Brave will return a nearly complete list as their first result.

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I feel like you don't need to be a search engine to remember some buzz words. Seems to me you just can't justify your point.

No, I’m just tired of the lazy “source?” style comments that are just thinly veiled attempts at sabotaging any further discussion. I have a hard time believing that someone has not yet seen the “global cooling” bullshit from the 80s, or “Florida will be underwater” bullshit from late 90s

I remember all that.

Also as a Floridian, I can confirm for HN that it was definitely hot today and I am not presently underwater. Dispelling both the impending ice age predictions from the early ‘80s and the Florida will be underwater predictions of the ‘90s.

> I have a hard time believing that someone has not yet seen the “global cooling” bullshit from the 80s

I wouldn't blame anyone for having dismissed "global cooling" way back in the eighties as a dipshit FUD response to the uncertainties surrounding early global warming models by business interests, conservatives and some of the less credible scientific skeptics - and then putting it out of their mind.

Are there perhaps still “uncertainties” around global warming, or will you call people “dipshits” 20 years later when we all not only survive and do OK, but add another couple billion to the planet’s population? That’s the point of my OP. I’ve seen this doomsday bullshit a few times now. They should tone down the rhetoric and look for solutions that do not send us back to preindustrial times, and do not involve “paying more taxes and eating bugs”

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