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comment by Sebaensah
Sebaensah  ·  4027 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to understand global warming better than most people, in less than a minute.

I find that the amazing thing here is not the quick learning by students upon providing the oversimplified background (that's somewhat expected if the exam material is 400 words long) but the complete lack of initial understanding. Smells purposefully anthropogenic to me.





Mindwolf  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Climate change is anthropogenic.

Sebaensah  ·  4025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Climate change is not synonymous with global warming, mind you. The latter is certainly anthropogenic while the former has existed billions of years before humans did.

Anyway, my point was that it feels like there is some anthropogenic (pun was intended) entity that is making great efforts trying to keep the students uneducated on the matter.