Ocean heat plus human-caused global warming is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.
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Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño
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If they could figure out a way for their donors to make a profit from it they would.
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“Those who contributed the least to this crisis are often those paying the highest health costs, but that is the equity scandal at the heart of everything we are discussing today.”
That is good old american capitalism. it is what the voters say they want everytime they cast their ballot for a member of a corporate sponsored political party.
That is good old american capitalism. it is what the voters say they want everytime they cast their ballot for a member of a corporate sponsored political party.
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SMH... its going to be 125 in Vegas this summer, I know it. And gas will be $7/gal to make it so expensive to leave town and go somewhere cooler.
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Gee, sorry about the fire hydrant--I didn't see who opened it up--I found it like this, officer.
And all that concrete just makes things worse, with no nearby forests for miles unless you go to Spring Mountains.
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That's the thing, though, they could. Green tech can be extremely lucrative. They've just been brainwashed into believing that anything green is "woke" or some other nonsense reason to oppose it.
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It may be the hottest, most catastrophic year of our lives!
Homer Simpson: It may be the hottest, most catastrophic year of our lives so far!
Homer Simpson: It may be the hottest, most catastrophic year of our lives so far!
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That's already being done by many. It's called, "carbon credits".
https://www.sciencealert.com/worthless-scientists-warn-carbon-offsets-are-a-dangerous-illusion
https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/...lly-offset-our-way-out-of-the-climate-crisis/
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Anecdotally speaking, it's already been an absurd year for wildfires here in Southern California. We haven't had one that's been anywhere near as catastrophic as the Palisades and Eaton fires, but they've been popping up pretty much nonstop for months, which I can't remember ever seeing before in my years of running the Watch Duty app. Doesn't bode well for when we get to the actual fire season in the fall ...
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Schismogenesis. If the Blue Team supports it, Red Team opposes.
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Some of them would celebrate. There's a meaningful percentage of never-miss-a-vote Republicans who want the end of the world. See also: Peter Thiel.
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As humanity enters the find out phase, remember that things only are the way they are because no one cares enough to stop fucking around. If our children survive long enough to reproduce, maybe their kids will be imbued with courage we do not possess.
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My go bag just hangs on a hook next to my car now. Critical papers, meds, dog food, backup hard drive, two changes of clothes, all the stuff we might need.
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"rational" Republicans: You know, it would really help your case if you didn't say that every year.
Rational liberal: You know, that would make great sense if it weren't true every year.
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No money for climate but they'll pass the 1.5 Trillion War budget request which has now outpaced the amount mentioned in this meme: https://www.genolve.com/design/socialmedia/memes/defense-spending-vs-climate-spending
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Yet..
People are too busy with tiktok, working 80 hours weeks just to eat and afford gas or otherwise distracted by the 2000 or so side-quests created for them by the powers that be.
But eventually, lack of maintenance and over use will grind to a halt any machine and several tens of millions of people without access to food or running water will bring about unpleasantries.
There are very real reasons that some of the 1st things the 1% do is secure themselves safe-houses and survival bunkers.
They know what they're doing, profit from it but also know that the find out part would also mean visits from the angry, starving, parched mobs if they stick around after the camel's back snaps in 2.
Edit: Spelling, removed fowl language
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Nora Lenderbee
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“We have normalized a public health emergency by failing to name it as one,”
We gave it a name - Global Warming - and predicted many disasters. That just seemed to ignite the opposition and denial forces. Sigh.
We gave it a name - Global Warming - and predicted many disasters. That just seemed to ignite the opposition and denial forces. Sigh.
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Hah, the featured article on Wikipedia yesterday was that forest fire in Washington state that turned Seattle and Portland into New Delhi back in 2022...though I see that internet coverage of this subject started a few days ago, so that's probably not a coincidence.
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You haven't been to Vegas. Opening a fire hydrant will result in 2nd degree burns from the steam. Only place where I rose with the sun to exercise only to find it was so humid and still hot that I gave up a half hour in because I was soaked. Vegas is a terrible place.
The pitchforks and torches need to come out. The plutocracy must go.
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In a few months, how will Vegas officials know if a fire hydrant is open or closed? Only in the presence of water is the valve status obvious.
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What's the point of having fancy bunkers if the world doesn't end?
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When half of western Canada ends up in smoke this summer, a harsh worded letter from bordering red states will surely help.
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The war/oil situation, which affects things like fertilizers and plastics (including condoms!), makes all of this so much worse, and will truly elevate the year.
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Getting nervous about 115 heat here in Portland again a la 2020. I have a 1/4 acre maybe if I start digging now I can build one of those cool underground cabins I see bushmen making on YouTube.
ETA: Can't wait to watch MAGA laugh as we all burn. FEMA who?
ETA: Can't wait to watch MAGA laugh as we all burn. FEMA who?
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Reality TV disasters is my favorite! I will being watching inside my air conditioned house while I generate sexy AI videos.
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Too busy. But also, everyone views their own behavior as rational but expects everyone else to shape-up. They also expect someone else to do the work of fixing things. Everyone thinks they themselves are normal and reasonable and shouldn't have to change.
The epitome of it? You know how people show up late to some function? You know what they almost always say?
"I was stuck in traffic"
No, sir, you were an affirmative participant in traffic and actively made the problem worse. You were not an outside participant infringed upon by others.
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While Republicans (and Trump) refuse to send the money appropriated for wild fire prevention to the blue states. That's going to result in many needless deaths.
The silver lining is that Trump's illegal war is finally kickstarting the world in getting off fossil fuels. China is currently assisting Cuba in the fastest solar energy conversion in history due to Trump's oil blockade. I hope Europe and Asia can follow suit.
Oil prices will be going insane in the next few weeks and months as the final tankers from before the blockade dock in the US.
The silver lining is that Trump's illegal war is finally kickstarting the world in getting off fossil fuels. China is currently assisting Cuba in the fastest solar energy conversion in history due to Trump's oil blockade. I hope Europe and Asia can follow suit.
Oil prices will be going insane in the next few weeks and months as the final tankers from before the blockade dock in the US.
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So what, are people just not going to go to work or social functions? Blaming people who have no real alternative is a shitty look and is guaranteed to reverse whatever progress you might want to see. This is a policy and governance failure, not a personal one.
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The ironic part of that?
He's doing it at state-level...but "blue states" are geographically mostly red counties that are low population--outweighed by highly populated bluer metro areas. And the wildfires? Are generally happening in the low-population-density red counties the most frequent. IOW to spite "blue states" he's actually endangering his own voters.
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Not American but red states like Texas also have more solar and wind than the bluest states. Maybe focus your attention inwards for once.
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And they'll no doubt cheer for it until their small town is wiped off the map like Paridise.
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The problem, as you so deftly point out--is the designed and intentional lack of alternatives.
Why does the USA have a shortage of daycare workers? The average daycare worker in the USA has a median hourly wage of $15/hour. How does someone on $15/hour afford ownership and operational costs of an automobile? They can't. The same is true for retirement, and medical care, home ownership, educational debt, and so on. So people don't become or stay daycare workers. The shortage--is inevitable and rational microeconomics in action, which is why no one has been able to really do anything about it. We (our ancestors)--through force of civil planning, made it economically impossible for lower-wage people to live. We engineered a society where astronauts and CEOs can thrive--but everyone else struggles.
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