• Smoogy
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    311 year ago

    It’s crazy to me that the highest populated countries that are most affected by it by that article (China and US) are contributing the most to it (unchecked capitalism) and still refuse see their connnection to their own discomfort

    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 year ago

      Now you work to change the rules of society so that we can stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and limit the amount of additional warming we see.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      At the risk of sounding doomerish, nothing will change until it’s too late or there’s a revolution and heads roll.

  • Turkey_Titty_city
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    41 year ago

    So what? Not like there is anything anyone of of us can do about it. And our politicians don’t give a F as long as oil companies pay their bills.

    • timicin
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      71 year ago

      i had the same thought: NPR did a story on alaskan pipelayers & plumbers that were starting to experience the effects of climate change on the soil about 15-is years ago and then revisited them again about 5-ish years ago. in the first set of interviews from 15 years ago, a big majority refused to attribute the issues that they were experiencing to climate change and in the second set 5 years ago, they nearly unanimously refused to attribute the issues to climate change.

      climate change is now politics and any and all politics will be denied if you want it bad enough

  • zephyrvs
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    -241 year ago

    Not a Climate Change denier but it feels weird that scientists who projected climate change to take a few decades to really fuck us is suddenly melting the planet.

    Right after a pandemic, while AI is killing jobs and a war between Ukraine and Russia can officially escalate to WW3 any day.

    • Solivine
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      371 year ago

      Well they projected it to take a few decades… a few decades ago

      • Turkey_Titty_city
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        251 year ago

        Since the 70s. 50 years ago.

        Jimmy Carter make a speech about it. Everyone laughed at him and called him a pussy.

        • Smoogy
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          201 year ago

          And again when al gore warned everyone with uncomfortable truth in 2006

          • @[email protected]
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            111 year ago

            With an Inconvenient* Truth.

            An uncomfortable truth would have been in the backseat of a Volkswagen (that’s a Mall Rats joke for anyone keeping track at home).

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in the nineties. But we had lots of time then, so no rush…


        Back when I was young and naive I figured the Kyoto Protocol would work. We had lots of time then. The climate change is a hoax thing didn’t really take off until the early aughts as I recall.

    • l_one
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      191 year ago

      To my knowledge, there had been an understanding that scientists were being fairly conservative with their statements of how bad things were going to get, and how fast it was going to happen.

      I know of two primary drivers for this (which I am somewhat oversimplifying for brevity):

      1. Scientists really didn’t want to get it wrong by saying X will definitely happen by year Y, and then be wrong, thus giving ammunition to climate deniers and vested interests running counter-PR such as oil companies.

      2. Scientists didn’t want to paint a picture of unstoppable, inevitable doom that no person could possibly imagine a way for them to fix, or contribute towards fixing, thus leading to the mindset of ‘if there’s no way to stop it why even try?’.

      • Goddard Guryon
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        81 year ago

        For your first point, I’d just like to add that the scientists didn’t give conservative estimates to stay clear of conspiracy theorists, but to stay clear of criticisms of fellow scientists. If there’s insufficient data to back up the claims a researcher makes, you can bet the other researchers will always beat the conspiracy theorists in calling out the bullshit.

    • BrotherCod
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      71 year ago

      That’s the whole point. They’re surprised that it’s happening so fast. The acceleration at which things are happening has gone far beyond anything they predicted. My local area hit 40°C a couple of days ago, the highest recorded temperature on record since we started taking temperatures. We’ve had constant temperatures in the high 30s for the past 2 weeks. I can’t remember temperatures this high and I’m almost in my fifth decade on our little blue dot. The icebergs that we see every year failed to show up this year because of the large amount of melt happening in the Arctic, something I can’t remember seeing in my lifetime. I know what I’m saying is all anecdotal but there’s also plenty of evidence supporting global atmospheric warming that’s backed up by scientific data.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      the climate changes greatly improve the likelyhood of extreme events, going from once in a million years to once every few years.