• Kerrigor
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    131 year ago

    Seriously. Climate change is the most useless term, it doesn’t have the necessary oomph. Call it climate destruction.

    • Mysteriarch ☀️OP
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      121 year ago

      I think The Guardian has committed a few years ago to call it the ‘climate crisis’ (they also have a dedicated category page with the title). But yeah, language matters. I tend to use climate catastrophe.

      • TheSaneWriter
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        01 year ago

        I like the name climate crisis. It’s formal sounding but conveys the direness of the situation much better than climate change.

        • Ni
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          11 year ago

          I’m with you, I’ve started referring to it with this name. It’s apt, we’re in a current crisis not a situation that we will only see effects from generations from now. I talk to a lot of people who seem to think this is a next generation problem, even the current young generation.

    • @schroedingershat
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      21 year ago

      This is why republicans pushed it as the used term in the bush era.

  • @Yondu_the_Ravager
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    121 year ago

    When I look at the weather app on my phone and it tells me of an “excessive heat warning”…. Yeah.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      This summer so far I’ve had either a non stop smoke warning or a non stop heat warning. Or both!

      • @Yondu_the_Ravager
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        21 year ago

        Yep, same here. The smoke was so bad there for a while, I’m glad that has subsided.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      But that’s like everyday.

      Shit we had an excessive heat warning in the middle of winter last year… It was like 90 fucking degrees. 2 weeks later we had snow!

      • @Yondu_the_Ravager
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        11 year ago

        That’s climate change for you. The extremes become more extreme, the weather can fluctuate near daily, and you can have events exactly like you described.

  • @schroedingershat
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    111 year ago

    “Hottest month on record” is a massive understatement when there have been 24 consecutive days hotter than any recorded before July 3 this year.

  • Ni
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    91 year ago

    Era of global boiling sounds very reassuring. When are our policy makers going to actually start acting?

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      I don’t think we will see much in serious action until lots of people start to die and even then some will still drag their feet.

      • Ni
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        11 year ago

        I really hope this isn’t the case but I have a feeling you might be right. Why don’t we act preemptively instead of firefight (literally in this case) after the fact.

  • ArugulaZ
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    21 year ago

    Since the media makes excuses for the rednecks who shoot up malls (“they’re suffering from economic anxiety!”), I should get a free pass to slap the ever-loving shit out of a Koch brother, on account of my climate anxiety.