Disgusting!

[theophilus]

I have noticed for years that whenever a climate change related story appears at Yahoo News there are quickly hundreds or thousands of comments that are denying human caused rapid climate change. Where do these posts come from?

There is a story up now about Greta and the "responses" are disgusting. Please give me your informed opinions as to where the bulk of such suicidal ignorance originates. Just ignorant mean spirited individuals? Paid propagandists? Foreign interference? It is very sad. We are all going to suffer because of this mess. Can't these people see that?

[Runningdawg]

1. I lurk on a FAR right wing survivalist forum

They posted this article and they post others like it on a regular basis for their members to troll. They do the same thing with polls. I don't know if this is the "bulk" but if other R wing forums are doing the same, then it's certainly a factor.

[theophilus]

2. That makes sense. Thanks for the insight. n/t

[dewsgirl]

3. Many are likely bots. I just learned that they vote in those

Twitter polls also. Paid propagandists are likely.

[Wounded Bear]

4. A lot of this going on...

another reason that most on-line polls are worthless.

There are some that use some tools to restrict voting to real people, but most are a waste of time.

[smirkymonkey]

6. This might be a dumb question, but why can't we do anything about these

Russian/foreign "bots"? Can't we block them or do anything legally? This is cyber-warfare. There has to be something that can be done about this.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Blame Faux Snooze

[lunatica]

7. Echo chamber tactics.