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Cass, you idjit! You have been on earth from how long and still don't know how humans work! They are just going to think the OP is delusional!

It is more than just weather, nobody said that anyway. We are on track to make large sections of the earth uninhabitable for humans, crop failures, costal city flooding, and catastrophic weather events. Suffering at a scale we haven't seen since WW2, possibly worse. If you are under 50, probably in your lifetime, maybe even under 60.

It sounds like the intent is for media outlets to add a climate page along with the rest of their sections and for A/V media to add a few seconds to their regular content to say: Donate to X climate organization, or adjusting your thermostat saves Y emissions and X% dollars, or visit our climate page, or call your city council, use your imagination.

people who have not divested from fossil fuels industry will lose a lot of money.

I've read half a dozen books on investing and as much content online. Fossil fuels isn't that great of a long term investment. Forget recent numbers. There is a lot of regulatory risk, a lot of falling out of favor with the general public, and alternatives to the product. Even worse, the more of it that is removed, the higher the capital and R&D costs there are to continue to extract it. Even worse, with the exception of coal mining, there isn't an obvious transition to a new business model. Even cars (electrics) and airlines (trains can't cross water, ships slow, sustainable jet fuel in the works) have a better long term outlook.

So this means things are more dire than we might think?

Better get to it. I love car analogies. So fitting as they are a huge culprit because they require all of the above.

Cleaning up your industry is like maintaining your car. Sure, it can be expensive, but a lot cheaper than an engine, transmission, or the worst case, brake failure.

We can clean up our planet now, or deal with some sort of catastrophic failure later. Failures are famine, displacement, resource wars, natural disasters.

This is what you would expect if it were run by someone from the fossil fuel industry...oh wait:

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/cop28-climate-summit-fossil-fuels-sultan-al-jaber/

TLDR - stop calling it natural gas. Call it what it is: methane.

Coal is natural - I don't want to breath the smoke

Lead is natural - I would never use lead silverware

Box Jellyfish stings are natural - I'll pass

Grizzly Bears are natural - I don't want to fight one

One plus side to record setting temperatures, heating demands are likely lower. A good stop gap is electric space heaters.

Perhaps the EPA and other countries' equivalents needs to hire auditors that show up at random and audit orgs that sell them. If they are lying, fine fine them and press criminal charges.

Speaking as a US citizen, you aren't wrong. I wouldn't make agreements with the US unless it is February of an odd numbered year.

ETA: Late January of odd years is when we get a new president or a new Congress. I say February so there is time for the transition.

Maybe we should all just start riding bikes and wearing MAGA shirts and other GOP dog whistles to dissuade coal rollers and such? Eventually the MAGA crowd will see their own riding bikes and think it was their idea. Cities will then be forced to build bike infrastructure.

When has Shell ever cared about anything in Nigeria except how much money they can get out of it?

When has Shell ever cared about anything ~~in Nigeria~~ except how much money they can get out of it?