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Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
(www.theguardian.com)
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At this point I feel like I've had as many final warnings on climate changes as I have had for my car's extended warranty.
Climate change IS real, not saying that it isn't but you would think Scientists would pick a different tactic given that "But 20 years ago you said the world would end in 5 years!"
Is a common skeptic gotcha.
Our real final warning was 20 years ago. Everything after is just a desperate attempt to get people to actually realize how fucked we already are and how much worse it'll be if we don't do something about it.
Then there's people like you who apparently don't pay attention to weather patterns because globally they're fucked right now. And all scientific data shows they're just gonna keep getting worse.
Remember how bad hurricane Katrina was? How it was talked about for years? We're gonna be getting storms much stronger than that on a more regular basis. Some parts of the world already are.
The category 5 that hit Mexico recently was insane.
It also makes me wonder how many more sudden/suprise category 5 hurricaines we'll see.
You also have the mass flooding in the Slavic regions that have already displaced millions of people.
Weather phenomena around the world is growing stronger and stronger every single day.
The Day After Tomorrow is looking a lot more realistic nowadays though it won't happen that fast.
No, I'm paying attention and I'm well aware of how bad the situation is, but saying this is the last chance every 10 years is the kind of talk that creates skepticism at a time when we can't afford skepticism
The problem is when people claim the end of the world they get put into the "crazy" box. A lot of people throughout human history have claimed "the end of times" due to delusion or misinformation.
What we have now though is actual scientific evidence that shows what's going to happen and that it's happening.
The best time to start fixing this was 40 years ago. The second best time is now.
They need to figure out how to do this without sending off the "woo alarm"
we really have to spoon-feed this shit to a billion children throwing a tantrum of idiocy
Which is a very difficult thing to achieve especially in the age of disinformation.
And again when you tried using the apocalypse is here as a scare tactic for several decades, when facts alone would have sufficed
But they didn't. We were presented with the facts in the 80's. We saw the effects in the early 2000's. Remember the hole in the ozone layer? The one caused by mass pollution? Govts around the world chose to believe science and ban the production of a lot of chemicals and the ozone layer healed.
Then everyone collectively forgot pollution was dangerous and started pumping it out as much as they could legally* get away with.
*It's not hard to get away with doing it illegally
Maybe if Al Gore hadn't talked like he was literally a magical fucking wizard we wouldn't be in this mess
They're all the same one, we just keep fucking up the future even further and constantly choosing to blow by terrible milestones
and nothing happened time and time again. reminds me of that 2012 doomsday thing
Except that it is happening already - incremental change is hard to notice. But the summers keep getting hotter, and the natural disasters worse and more frequent.