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CLIMATE CHANGE ERROR

Due to the claims in regards to the aforementioned habitat requirements of the giraffe, we are able to infer one of the groups playing a role in the conspiracy. Anti-climate change groups have furthered the giraffe in order to convince the public that a 20 foot tall mammal can survive on desert trees to create public confusion about the state of the global environment.

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People keep answering Climate Change Error as if the claim were that a giraffe changes the weather. The claim is that getting people to accept this much animal living on that little landscape changes what they are prepared to believe about the landscape.

“survive on desert trees” is the bit I keep coming back to. You are shown a huge body and a few branches, then told the combination is ordinary. If the picture works, nobody asks what has to be supplied outside it.

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brickwork
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The animal gets all the attention and the trees become background. That is a very effective way of making the background seem sufficient.

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rustred
Collapse or expand reply by rustred

The usual reply is a greener photograph. It still has the same giant animal in the middle doing the work of convincing you that the place can support it.

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metricsea
Collapse or expand reply by metricsea

You have put a quantity in the argument without measuring it. “A few branches” in one photograph is not the total food available.

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cansleeve
Collapse or expand reply by cansleeve

Yes, and “it eats trees” is not a measurement either. I would like the explanation to include how much tree it needs, rather than using the animal as proof that the trees are enough.

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metricsea
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I want the food question answered too. I still do not see how an unanswered food question identifies the group responsible.

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halfstep
Collapse or expand reply by halfstep

The preceding habitat argument matters here. This paragraph takes that objection as established; it does not start by proving it again.

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marl
Collapse or expand reply by marl

Why would an anti-climate group pick this animal? Would a small animal living on very little make the same point with less to explain?

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wrenched
Collapse or expand reply by wrenched

A small animal is easy to overlook. With a giraffe you have to accept a conspicuous amount of animal. That is the purpose being alleged: the scale is part of the persuasion.

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flatlander
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And people repeat the habitat explanation themselves. Nobody has to put a statement under every photograph once the viewer supplies it.

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