I know someone working in a pharmaceutical lab that believed climate change was fake because the atmosphere on Mars was mostly CO2 and it wasn't hot there.

God save us from the kakistocracy.

[–] piccolo@ani.social 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes... use the desolated planet thats straight out of mad max universe as evidence against cilmate change...

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jfc

[–] Midnitte 6 points 3 months ago

You'd be surprised how conspiratorial scientists are - especially if it's outside their domain.

You'd think more deference to experts would be the default mode.... just because I took one physics class does not make me an expert on climatology or the green house effect

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Couldnt he percentage just be false?

Also, where did you get the 4.2 million US citizens from? Im pretty sure 13% is much higher

[–] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m an idiot. I put it as .013 because my brain clocked it at a far more reasonable rate.

It’s actually 42,900,000 which is way worse 🫠

[–] shani66@ani.social 7 points 3 months ago

~~Iirc that's also the percentage of Americans who are functionally illiterate~~

Looked it up, it's worse.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it doesn't actually matter whether it happened, but whether the technology to do it existed at that time. And they surely did.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

To build on this: The technology to fake it didn't exist back then.