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“There is no scientific consensus. There is no human caused global warming.” (Climate Hypochondriac) This position is hardly unique as we can see here.

I grew up playing a lot of Civilization so I know that if you build too many factories without at the same time building recycling centers and enabling mass transit transportation, global warming is bound to create problems. I remember this phase of the game as very frustrating since factories were great for production. You could only have them in a few select cities, otherwise the global warming meter would eventually become bright yellow ( = bad things). Nuclear power plants were no solution either since they sometimes had meltdowns (Bang! City population/2 and nuclear waste around it). The discovery of fusion power always came as a relief. So that is my position on global warming. Sid Meier brainwashed me.

Back to our climate change discussion. Some people seem absolutely certain that humans are not behind global warming. I am perplexed by the apparent certainty, that they do not even see the possibility that humans are behind climate change - in spite of all the evidence that is pointing in this direction. I do not think skepticism is bad (it is usually a good principle) it is just that this certainty is odd, especially now that the burden of proof seems to have shifted to those that do not think humans are behind global warming.

written by Jacob \\ tags: climate change, games