• teft
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    1782 years ago

    Hottest 36 days ever recorded…so far.

    • @[email protected]
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      Nobody panic!

      The only people that matter, who also happen to be the ones that caused and continue to exacerbate the climate apocalypse knowingly for private profit, have built luxury bunker complexes in temperate places like New Zealand to shield themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

      No one important is in danger, just us billions of disposable capital batteries, no biggie.

      Now get back to work! The owners/Pharoahs/oligarchs/beloved job creators have quarterly ego score expectations to exploit out of you before you die of heat stroke as a result of your bad decisions, like being poor!

      • @[email protected]
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        202 years ago

        In 1988 my uncle was working as a chemist for the oil industry in Oman. When he was home he’d tell us about global warming from carbon dioxide from burning oil

        In the industry they knew. In politics they knew. But it made a lot of money and they’d be dead before New York would be flooded

        I wish aging had been solved back then, so those people would know they’d live to see the impending disaster

        RIP Great Barrier Reef this coming southern summer

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        New Zealand won’t be exempt from climate change and they have to come out of their bunkers at some point. I always ask myself what good their money will be when global trade collapses. How long until their security guards realize that they hold the real power?

        • @[email protected]
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          62 years ago

          Security guards have families, families can be held hostage safely in the bunker while the guards battle the hungry hordes outside.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          It’s already happening, North Island has been flooding so much this year it’s barely newsworthy anymore. And yet people think voting in the rightwing “we need to be fiscally conservative but also we will spend billions on roads” party is a good idea.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            So, pretty much like every other Western country. I’m in Germany, and conservative thinking and an openly fascist party are on the rise, while everything is blamed on the Greens in the government.

        • @[email protected]
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          472 years ago

          This is literally idealism.

          You have an idea about a market solution to the problem, and then act like you’ve solved the problem.

          The problem isn’t a lack of ideas! The problem is a lack of implementation! You have to get these ideas into the real world somehow, and revolution is the only way you can do that. There are billionaires aligned against implementing these ideas. You have to stop them.

          • Zorque
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            262 years ago

            Revolution is also more than eating the rich. Its also setting a framework for the future through non-violent action. Organizing and interacting both with local communities and national and international concerns.

            • @[email protected]
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              212 years ago

              When the rich send men with guns to break up your non-violent organizations and communities, you aren’t going to debate them into submission.

            • @[email protected]
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              -12 years ago

              So we all burn while you try to change the system instead of focusing on the problem at hand. Great and thanks.

              • Zorque
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                62 years ago

                Did I say that was the only thing?

                Because if you ignore this now to burn down the rich, you’ll be burning later anyways.

          • @[email protected]
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            Its over man, I just look at those sad little true believers as pathetic comic relief.

            They’d be the ones in the town squares pre-revolution scolding passers by for not blindly following the wisdom of their oppressive monarchs.

            “Stay the course! So I can feel like I’m safe and that everything is working as it’s supposed to!”

            • @[email protected]
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              72 years ago

              They’re the peasants that revolt against their local lord while still being loyal to the king, because surely the problem is just that the king has bad advisors and the local lord is corrupt!

              • @[email protected]
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                52 years ago

                They’re the voters stupid enough to vote against their interests, and there’s no shortage of them. Serfs gonna serf.

          • @[email protected]
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            -112 years ago

            It’s not idealism. If you have a better solution that is not radical by design, go ahead. I was literally not specific intentionally. Go ahead, what instrument within the current system would work that are not regulations?

            • @[email protected]
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              102 years ago

              Regulations don’t work when they don’t get implemented, which means your ideas are purely ideas and not materialistic solutions. There aren’t going to be any regulations, don’t you get it? That ship has so obviously sailed.

              There isn’t a better solution that’s not radical and that’s why radical solutions all that’s left!

              • @[email protected]
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                -12 years ago

                We’ll, changes won’t work on your system if they don’t get implemented either. If your system is a catch-all for forcing through unpopular changes, don’t expect to see much success. We have implemented comprehensive environmental changes in the past but it takes time and ground work.

          • BombOmOm
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            Which country is the model to emulate? Which country has had the successful revolution?

            • JackGreenEarth
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              102 years ago

              Many countries have successfully overthrown previous governments and implemented new ones. It depends what you mean by ‘successful’.

              • BombOmOm
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                -112 years ago

                It depends what you mean by ‘successful’.

                I’m asking which ones did it by their definition of successful. Which country should we emulate?

                • JackGreenEarth
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                  52 years ago

                  There will be people who thought it was successful, and people who thought it was unsuccessful, in every revolution. You’d need to clarify who ‘they’ are.

                • JackGreenEarth
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                  42 years ago

                  And as for me, I’m not sure there’s anything we can do about this, even with a revolution - at least with such a small number of us that actually care. If the majority actually wanted to change from the status quo, maybe then a revolution could work.

            • @[email protected]
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              62 years ago

              Well, I mean, historically, the USA had a very successful revolution in that they have become the greatest world power nowadays…

              Even if they are a capitalist crazed two party nation, where a majority struggle to survive and they have to pay for the basic human right of healthcare, all in the name of some “free market” to help the rich get richer at their own expense.

              • @[email protected]
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                -12 years ago

                So, you are saying we should emulate the United States? Are you following this conversation?

          • @[email protected]
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            -72 years ago

            Those are some great definitions but that doesn’t change the fact that literally anyone can find someone that disagrees with these positions. Forcing them on people will not get the reaction you want. That right there throws out any thought of regulatory capture being the sole thing at play. It can hardly be considered a plutocracy when a good portion of the populous agrees with it.

            Even if that is the complete reality, very few people agree with you and antidemocratic actions will result in a massive backlash.

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              People agree with Hitler, doesn’t make them right, or worth listening to, nor does it make them willing to compromise, some people need to be forced to relinquish their incorrect and harmful opinions through violence and death.

              You’re relying on the wilfully ignorant and belligerent to go against their nature, and that’s a level of stupidity so divorced from reality that you’re effectively no different than them.

              You’ll sit here and argue that you’re right till you’re blue in the face but you’ll still never change anything.

              • @[email protected]
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                -62 years ago

                Well, I’m sure your unpopular revolution will force through all the changes our society needs. Just like they did in Germany in the 1930s.

                • @[email protected]
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                  52 years ago

                  Appeasement doesn’t work, that’s why we killed the Nazi’s instead of waiting for them to agree with us.

                  You’re the global warming equivalent of a Nazi apologist, so it’s a bit rich when you refer to me as the one pushing a harmful agenda for caring about the survival of the human race above and beyond the ignorance of individuals.

        • flipht
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          52 years ago

          I hate to break this to you, but these have to go hand in hand.

          Government, and the individuals who make up the government, are balancing a lot of competing demands.

          Until one of those demands may include the loss of use of their property, at the very least, then they will always be more incentived to overvalue the perspective of the rich. And the rich will literally say, yeah, it’s bad, but we can slap a bandaid on it - 20% or the cost for 40% of the solution, that should get us by!

          Some other overwhelming force will eventually be necessary to change the calculus of what an “acceptable solution” looks like. Because with your market regulation, you will always have people willing to pay the fine instead of following the rules, and if they are allowed to continue externalizing those costs to the rest of us, we will continue to have less room to request less benefit, and we will have to take what they decide to give us. Which I can almost guarantee will be pennies compared to what it costs us in the meantime.

    • flipht
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      182 years ago

      The hottest 36 days on record. Also the coolest summer we can expect to see for the rest of our lives.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Oh, if I were an alien looking down at us little billions of ants destroying their own habitat to construct tributes to a few thousand fat ants, to the point all the ants were about to die off, I’d be tilting my head and laughing my alien ass off.

        • JackGreenEarth
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          42 years ago

          I’d be really sad, because I have empathy. Of course, maybe you’d be a psychopathic alien who laughs at injustice and pain.

  • @[email protected]
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    822 years ago

    This graph is the most damning. We’ve made zero progress according to the only metric that matters.

  • @[email protected]
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    672 years ago

    So that’s why all the conservatives are laughing and cheering. I was wondering why they were celebrating. They are accomplishing their mission of killing us all.

      • @[email protected]
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        182 years ago

        “Them libs want to protest the climate issue? Well fuck em, let’s burn more oil and make more profit for those companies! That’ll show them snowflake protestors!”

        This is literally the mindset we’re up against. They’ve been brainwashed so hard into “owning libs”, and have their tongues so far up billionaire’s arseholes, they have lost any sense of empathy, sympathy, and basic intelligence. We’re all fucked.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          Part of the problem with being socially minded is that your representatives tend to be less inclined to abuse their power to disingenuously manipulate useful idiots. We’d rather educate them than manipulate them, but they’re too stupid to know the difference.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      Don’t worry, they’re gearing up for the “Climate change is real, but we just need to genocide more of the people with a <100kg/yr carbon footprint to fix it” chapter of dogshit rhetoric soon.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        They’ll never say that in good faith because it’s the rich that have the biggest carbon footprints.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 years ago

          My point is they’ll (continue to) blame the people whose carbon footprints are <1% of theirs and would be manageable for centuries and advocate for genocide as a solution.

          Currently blaming the global south is just used to deflect.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Killing everyone will kill more liberals than conservatives, so it’s a net positive for them!

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      Nah, that will be 2027. After the current El Nino oscillation but before the 50 degree summers start.

  • @[email protected]
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    402 years ago

    Fun fact: All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover. That is, this year isn’t really exceptional climate-change wise, it’s just that we could witness, by fortuitous natural experiment, how much worse it actually already is… as well as that we can limit the impact by geoengineering. It works, and without wrecking havoc on the overall system.

    And the good news is that we don’t need to blow sulphur into the air to generate clouds, the same effect can be had by blowing salt water into the air, just strap a couple of water cannons to every cargo ship. No I’m dead serious.

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      All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover.

      You have your causality running backwards… this was already here, and the sulfur was masking it. This happened because we put so many GHG in the air.

      It works, and without wrecking havoc on the overall system.

      Europe is the one that initiated the sulfur reductions. With the additional dimming data now available, they reviewed it to determine how much damage had been caused. The conclusion? The benefits of reducing sulfur actually outweigh the damage of unmasked warming. The plan for further reductions was upheld.

      If we mask radiative forcing, we don’t want to be doing it with sulfur. That leads to acid rain, ocean acidification, and asthma and other diseases. CaCO3 is a candidate. The long-term consequences of any candidate is unknown. Except that we know that the less sulfur raining down on us and the fish in general, the better.

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        32 years ago

        You have your causality running backwards… this was already here, and the sulfur was masking it.

        Which is what I said?

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          It was probably framing it like

          Fun fact: All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover.

          Instead of something like “we noticed the effects of climate change exceptionally this year because we stopped blowing sulphur (…)”. Yes, this is probably pedantic in a room where everyone understands anthropocentric climate change. Still, I can understand why some people might want to be extremely clear with how we use language regarding this topic, given… Everything that’s going on.

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    272 years ago

    It is totally terrifying but also very strange to read about the record heat everywhere while we here in Germany had probably the coldest July in a decade. We had 16C where we should have had 30C. And we had rain, a lot of rain.

    Still, I’m terrified.

  • Jaysyn
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    192 years ago

    Some didn’t survive & that’s a problem.

  • @[email protected]
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    192 years ago

    Phoenix just broke its record for consecutive days over 110° at 31, previous record was half that…

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      12 years ago

      Cincinnati only had two days over 90 total all summer so far. I think we may get another day this week. Phoenix is getting all of our heat.

  • Alex
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    142 years ago

    What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZC6da4mco

    Oil barrons merely see global warming as yet another catastrophe to take advantage of for power and profit, they will have their companies pump oil til there’s not a single drop left to pump anywhere, using every excuse they can find to keep pumping and polluting while evading taxes and regulation as much as possible. They are evil scum and belong in jail for their lies and behavior.

    • Bri Guy
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      92 years ago

      the movie 2012 comes to mind for whatever reason lol

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years ago

        ‘Don’ t look up’ it’s a depressing documentary dressed up as a dark comedy focusing on the incapacity of competence to sway the tide of general ignorance.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      Next species would make plushies after us, like we did with dinosaurs. Cute little featherless bipeds. 2990-3000s would also see a cartoon where humans would sing about friendship, turning some kids into human-geeks.