Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
This is a just a preview of what is coming when trump loses.
Possibly also what's coming if Trump wins.
No, only if he loses.
If he wins, America is done.
If he wins, America is done.
Which America? It’s a huge country, only parts would be done , only some groups would be persecuted, and the background death rate would only go up by 2 or 3 times elsewhere due to collapse of services and medicine. People as a whole would get poorer, but many are already poor
Vast amounts of people will never notice
And what if he wins? NOAA is fucking gone, given away to corporations.
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Already sorta sold, some records aren't public because of some agreement with a private companies proprietary code.
Like weather records?
As I understand it yes, there were a couple articles about it maybe a month ago.
What jerks. I suspected something was up but I thought it was just govt being cheap with memory. Turns out nope it's corps.
Oh I am very, very much betting on Jan 6th Round 2: Electric Boogaloo.
I will honestly be fucking amazed if there are not widespread conspiracy insanity and terrorism if Trump loses.
We've already got democratic political offices being shot up in drive bys, fucktons of open attempts at taking over election boards and changing all the rules last minute to intentionally sow chaos, militias saying they are out hunting FEMA responders, mass bomb threats called in based on made up stories about Haitians eating cats...
It sure does show the state of things.
Then again I was stuck in a decent amount of traffic today and the sheer amount of people who attempt to "beat the system" of driving in an orderly manner is also insanely high.
I'd love to think that we're better than this as a society, but the reality of the situation is that we're one or two small steps from pure anarchy and it really wouldn't take all that much to get there from where we are.
"We are nine meals away from anarchy"
Also relevant: "Always shoot the messenger first." :)
If news unsettles a person, and there's a cognitive dissonance upon processing their world model ("everything OK with climate") and sensory input ("another big freaking hurricane") then if the person isn't a model of rational thought and already has a fad for conspiracies...
...one might find it easier to add another conspiracy theory to one's collection, as opposed to harder steps like refreshing one's model of how the world functions. :o
These miserable, dimwitted, hateful assholes are going to drag the rest of the world to the hell of climate change.
Privileged twits are a huge danger, yes.
Monty Python - Upper Class Twit Of The Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxSM5y7Pfs
In his official statement, president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho said "The people are right to not trust a science they can't pronounce"
“The people are right to not trust a science they can’t pronounce”
One of the basic arguments against "Ultraprocessed Fods" (UPF)... I shit you not.
Michael Pollan: If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It : NPR
2.) If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It
Don't buy products with more than five ingredients or any ingredients you can't easily pronounce.
😭😭 Because scientists naming chemicals had nutrition in mind
I wish food labels came with the full binomial nomenclature including the variety and subspecies.
Here's your sandwich:
Idiots don't realise that hurricanes are controlled from Australia, from pine gap.
It's all the emus plan to take over the world
Isn't that only for controlling pine trees?