🌎 Discussion: Climate Change, Global Warming, Emission Standards, and Other Environmental Issues - Part 1

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Weiterleitungshinweis

 

[squeekness]

Weiterleitungshinweis

We are poor stewards of this planet.

 

[Still Wynning]

The climate scientists warned you all what would happen!

It's almost as if more heat equals more and stronger storms or something.

The Gulf waters are especially warm

This chart of ocean heat is terrifying

The Gulf’s looming hurricane problem, explained in a simple graph.

www.vox.com

I got into a small little argument with my mom earlier this afternoon over her absolutely convinced that the government is using a weather machine to create and control the hurricane after I noticed her watching a video of “strange“ weather going on in Florida. Tried reasoning with her, but she’s completely bought into the conspiracy. I should’ve known better than to even engage with her at all.

She even sent me this video from Instagram from one of her usual “sources“ as “proof”:


I’m tired.

 

[squeekness]

I got into a small little argument with my mom earlier this afternoon over her absolutely convinced that the government is using a weather machine to create and control the hurricane after I noticed her watching a video of “strange“ weather going on in Florida. Tried reasoning with her, but she’s completely bought into the conspiracy. I should’ve known better than to even engage with her at all.

She even sent me this video from Instagram from one of her usual “sources“ as “proof”:


I’m tired.

If they could control the weather why haven't they done anything about the drought in Texas or similar problems?

 

[blueharvest]

Our dystopian climate isn’t just about fires and floods. It’s about society fracturing | Bill McKibben

Climate disasters risk pulling society apart. To survive we need solidarity – and only one ticket in the US election offers that

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

The shady origins of the climate haven myth

How the media, city mayors, and the real estate industry filled us with false hope.

www.vox.com

 

[blueharvest]

If they could control the weather why haven't they done anything about the drought in Texas or similar problems?

Also, if they could control the weather, why haven't they used that technology to destroy all of Donald Trump's properties by now?

 

[blueharvest]

On the climate crisis, housing and more, politicians avoid clarity because it demands action | Greg Jericho

Our leaders may prefer complexity because it means they can defer taking action – but doing something about emissions reduction or slow wage growth is actually not that complex

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

This Is How You Get Another Dust Bowl

Or: Tim Walz is right that “our number-one export cannot be topsoil.”

www.esquire.com

 

[squeekness]

Also, if they could control the weather, why haven't they used that technology to destroy all of Donald Trump's properties by now?

Wash Maralago out to sea!

 

[blueharvest]

We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?

"Unfortunately, the timing of the political agenda sometimes doesn't always align with the climate ambitions we should all have."

www.space.com

 

[Lily Adler]

This Is How You Get Another Dust Bowl

Or: Tim Walz is right that “our number-one export cannot be topsoil.”

www.esquire.com

Tim Walz needs to just come out and say Interstellar is showing us our future.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[blueharvest]

Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns

As average population falls reach 95% in some regions, experts call for urgent action but insist ‘nature can recover’

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns

As average population falls reach 95% in some regions, experts call for urgent action but insist ‘nature can recover’

www.theguardian.com

"Some" nature may recover, but we will lose the amazing diversity we started with.

 

[blueharvest]

‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart

A restoration project to revitalise the Atlantic forest is making the city a much more liveable place in the face of increasingly frequent heatwaves

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart

A restoration project to revitalise the Atlantic forest is making the city a much more liveable place in the face of increasingly frequent heatwaves

www.theguardian.com

We should be doing this all over.

 

[blueharvest]

Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

Complaint against NW Natural, the state’s biggest provider, marks first time a utility faces climate deception charges

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Accusing hurricane relief workers as racists and pedophiles after your state was destroyed due to your party's negligence shouldn't be the go to.

 

[squeekness]

Accusing hurricane relief workers as racists and pedophiles after your state was destroyed due to your party's negligence shouldn't be the go to.

I fear for the sanity of my country when people spout this kind of nonsense so freely.

 

[blueharvest]

Big Oil knew monster storms were coming. We have the receipts.

Internal documents over the last 45 years reveal the fossil fuel industry has long known their products would supercharge extreme weather.

heated.world

 

[squeekness]

Big Oil knew monster storms were coming. We have the receipts.

Internal documents over the last 45 years reveal the fossil fuel industry has long known their products would supercharge extreme weather.

heated.world

Money trumps lives.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[squeekness]

So the new normal is, "I don't agree with you so now you have to die"? Ridiculous.

 

[blueharvest]

Why Hurricane Milton produced such strong tornadoes — and why future storms might do so again

Milton’s tornadoes were part of an unusual trend this year: Hurricanes in the U.S. have produced an abnormally high number of strong twisters.

www.nbcnews.com