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I like how republicans in North Carolina, USA, backed by real-estate developers, voted to ignore rising sea levels six years ago, yet since then, the sea has risen by an inch a year.

I always felt that, in cases where you can either trust science or create new jobs, you're usually better off trusting the science.

In our postmodern culture, every truth is relative. Scientists are inconvenient in this scheme, because they find evidence for absolute truths.