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This is true, still today I saw a BBC article stating that July was the hottest month recorded - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49165476?intlin...

A minute later I go back to the home page and it was wiped out without a single discussion comment.

I don't see any reason why this type of articles should be taken down, they are scientific in nature and highly relevant.

Things like climate change denial should have no place in a site like Hacker news, it's unbelievable.

>>vfc1+(OP)
>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There's plenty of climate change reporting about the web. I just don't care to see HN lists articles that are ultra hot topics. You just get the same comments over and over again.

>>vfc1+(OP)
Because hottest month on record isn't scientifically interesting? Yes, climate change is happening, no, we didn't forget. The article isn't even about any attempts to do something different to fix it.

>>deburo+vf
I feel that a huge amount of people have still a hard time accepting that it's true, especially if doing something about it means changing something so deeply ingrained as their food habits.

On the other hand, major announcements like the latest UN report frontally calling for a diet change are still allowed on HN, so there is some filtering going on - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7

Many of the same comments that we read each time is that its not clear that the weather is changing due to human action, or that its not clear if stop eating animal products would help that much, etc. which shows that a lot of people are still misinformed about the topic and in a state of denial.