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Ask HN: HN-like site for climate change discussion?

14 points by deftnerd ↗ HN
Many on HN are interested in climate change, but at some point the amount of climate-related submissions might grow so large that it'll be filtered more strongly.

There are some communities on the web that I've run across that talk about climate change, but I haven't found any yet that have the same kind of thought/industry leader participation, deep technical knowledge, and ability for participants to debate constructively.

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jessehorne
Is your goal to facilitate discussion on efforts to solve climate issues or to participate in the development of technologies to solve climate issues? You could be working on a project that is focused and could use Hacker News to gain attention to the issue. You could also be looking to participate in a project, which means a thread could show up here to grab your attention or you could find a project somewhere else on the net to sink your time into. Either way, a focused communication app is great, but I guess my suggestion is to find a community and aim to improve it, or find a project and use sites like HN to achieve your goals.
jessehorne
If you created a HN-like site to facilitate communication on a broad range of subjects, your goal would be to get the right sort of people to actively participate in constructive discussions. You'd end up casting a pretty wide net and I'm not sure how much good could come from a bunch of people talking and not doing.

However, when you focus on a specific project, knowing that it's much more reasonable to assume you'd be getting more done in terms of actually solving climate related issues, then discussion that is needed can happen a lot easier, with your team and with the smaller net you cast when needing specific feedback.

qnsi
best to go and just follow a bunch of cool people on twitter. Know this is not optimal, but better than dead community