13 Misconceptions About Global Warming

Why HN readers recommended it

Used as a short, well-made rebuttal to common global warming arguments in climate threads.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Veritasium

Topic

climate change misconceptions

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Veritassium debunks this claim on climate change, along with a dozen others, in less than 7 minutes in an informative and entertaining way. It's a great video, you should at least watch it. [VIDEO] In short, during the 70s, there were some papers on global …

• I've linked a short well made video below which addresses your arguments. TLDW Just because man's emissions are relatively small in comparison to the over all natural emissions does not mean they don't affect things. I implore you, (as you seem a reasonable fellow who …

• That’s actually a myth. Global cooling was a small minority of published papers in climatology at the time. They were many more papers discussing warming. Source: [LINK] P.S. I learned this watching the excellent video by Veritasium on climate change misconceptions: [VIDEO]