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How the political response to climate change has neutered the fight against climate change, and is only making it worse. Plus turning us into proles. CRAIG NELSEN AUG 30, 2023 Everyone has their own mental algorithm they use to help them stake out their viewpoints. For some, they are very simple. What kind of music do I like? Whatever my friends like. For others, they are very complex. My own algorithm tends toward the simple: a) the more unified the media are on any given topic, the more well-advised I am to do my own research, b) the credibility of a viewpoint is inversely proportional to the number of celebrities who publicly express it, and c) any post on r/politics that garners more than ten thousand upvotes is guaranteed to be completely inaccurate, utterly ridiculous, or both. My algorithm gives man-made climate change a “0” on a scale of 1 to 100. But, then there is data like this from the NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information: “The five warmest years on rec...