<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the same thing Exxon did in the 80s when it&amp;#x27;s own researchers came to the conclusion that climate change was going to happen and then spent several decades clouding the issue to keep from being regulated so they could keep making money on drilling.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Yeah, I heard about that but was skeptical that people could take that position non-sarcastically until recently when driving on the PA Turnpike, I saw this...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;co2coalition&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1397912884756107269&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;co2coalition&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1397912884756107269&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cynical dishonesty of an organization creating a billboard like that boggles my mind.</text></item><item><author>SigmundA</author><text>Most of the deniers I know have shifted from it doesn&amp;#x27;t exist to either its not man made and just a natural cycle or it may actually be a good thing because plants like CO2 and warmth...</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>Who still believes global warming does not exist?&lt;p&gt;I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy&amp;#x27;s Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.&lt;p&gt;This book is almost quarter of century old.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>Haha I drive the turnpike all the time and these ones make me laugh the most. The ones that say &amp;quot;the green new deal is america&amp;#x27;s off switch&amp;quot; and the ones that were pro coal at least &lt;i&gt;kind of&lt;/i&gt; make sense (their message is that people will lose their jobs), but these new pro-CO2 ones are just so absurd.</text><parent_chain><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Yeah, I heard about that but was skeptical that people could take that position non-sarcastically until recently when driving on the PA Turnpike, I saw this...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;co2coalition&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1397912884756107269&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;co2coalition&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1397912884756107269&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cynical dishonesty of an organization creating a billboard like that boggles my mind.</text></item><item><author>SigmundA</author><text>Most of the deniers I know have shifted from it doesn&amp;#x27;t exist to either its not man made and just a natural cycle or it may actually be a good thing because plants like CO2 and warmth...</text></item><item><author>lmilcin</author><text>Who still believes global warming does not exist?&lt;p&gt;I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy&amp;#x27;s Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.&lt;p&gt;This book is almost quarter of century old.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>It’s official: July was Earth’s hottest month on record</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news/its-official-july-2021-was-earths-hottest-month-on-record</url></story>