1/ While I was high school, my bias solidified away from science and toward technology. I wasn't aware of it at the time but my unconscious decision may have been largely based on the fact that while the basis of science, those immutable laws of the universe, will...
2/ ...be forever argued in the #DunningKruger-afflicted minds of the uneducated, put a computer in front of somebody and they suddenly have the same power as any world-renowned #ClimateChange scientist.
3/. I have a lot of sympathy for the hardworking @KHayhoe 's and @MichaelEMann's of the world. Because while they are forever reminding the #Twitterverse of what has been known for centuries, the average conspiracy hack has at his or her fingertips computing power...
4/....only dreamed of by their predecessors, and with that the ability to invent and promote any type of virtual universe that suits their whims. A universe where magical undetected sun rays raise global temperatures and cause carbon molecules to suddenly pop into existence.
5/. Or where coral reefs will suddenly, without any explicable reason, suddenly turn a beautiful shade of white.
The mind boggles at the possibilities.
The mind boggles at the possibilities.
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