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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe spend a few minutes googling this stuff because it's been answered many times over and it just looks like you're deliberately trying to poke holes in what is ultimately very well established scientific fact.

To give you a TLDR though it's ice cores. You look at the air trapped in ice cores, the deeper you drill the further back in time you go because the ice and therefore the air trapped inside is older.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Its a simple question about an unsourced graph. Don't you think you're being a bit too adversarial?

Not everyone is here pushing an agenda, some people use the comments to talk to other people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thought the same. Trivial questions are asked and answered all the time (more trivial than this one too, where the question to enter into Google isn't even that obvious). When it comes to politically loaded topics people always like to swing the downvote hammer.

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 1 month ago

And even if the question isn't being asked in good faith, just dismissing it might feel like you're showing them up, but someone who would be convinced by the bad faith question isn't going to change their mind when they see a "just Google it, it's so simple".

And even for those that do search it, who knows what sources they end up looking at. "Oh, 9/10 oil execs say it's actually ok while the 1/10 remaining just laugh when asked, so it must be ok! Oh and Fox News confirms it!" Buys another unnecessarily large truck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

To be honest, I probably am yes. Climate change as a political issue has been around for decades and there are many folks working hard to discredit the science so it's very easy to assume the worst when people ask these kinds of questions.

It's entirely possible that the commenter was being genuinely curious but those aren't the vibes I got, maybe I'm just too jaded though.