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Lifer
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Just when I thought climate-change deniers couldn't get any more stupid or dishonest. It's as if they aren't even trying any more.

Once it was all complicated (and falsifiable, i.e. scientifically legit, if mistaken) arguments about sunspots and the solar wind, or sophisticated theories about clouds acting like Irises causing negative-feedback to regulate the climate. Now they just make up total nonsense and don't even care whether it has any relation to reality. They are getting asymptotically closer to saying what they really mean - "we don't care if huge numbers of people suffer and die, all we care about is money, because we are a right-wing death-cult"


the Daily Express published an article on Monday by James Whale, who claimed that the reason we should all ignore the “climate-fanatic panic” was because “planets move and we have been getting closer to the sun for thousands of years”.

...Or they publish macho-man rants by acknowledged PR-flaks for the fossil fuel industry, who switch to the line that climate change is happening but only "snowflakes" should be bothered by it - real tough guys like themselves welcome the apocalypse.

the Daily Mail published a comment piece by a writer called Stephen Robinson. “Why can’t the Met Office just tell us the weather, instead of spreading alarm and scolding us with doom-laden lectures?” he raged, accusing the UK’s leading centre of climate and meteorological research of being “woke” and “alarmist”.

It turns out that he’s a “speech writer and consultant” for “companies operating in the energy sector”
 

uclaLabrat

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Yeah, the almond farmers drive me insane. Drive up the 5 in central valley and its hundreds of miles of signs bemoaning liberals liming their water draw adorning all the almond orchards. Central valley produces 80% of the worlds almonds at at LEAST 1 gallon of water per almond.

And then they ship those damn things all over the world. You wanna use the water that doesnt exist to send half your goods to china or elsewhere? Fuck right off. Grow something else. Or nothing at all, we dont need it for domestic consumption.
 

Jaskalas

Lifer
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Just when I thought climate-change deniers couldn't get any more stupid or dishonest. It's as if they aren't even trying any more.
Now they just make up total nonsense and don't even care whether it has any relation to reality.

You mistake stupidity for religious fervor.
Most people simply do not care if they are wrong.
Even in the face of science. They'll just shoot the messenger.
It takes trust / faith in the person telling you how !@#$ed CO2 and Climate Change is. Otherwise the belief will eventually devolve into mindless conspiracy and total make believe.

The difference between them and myself, is that I chose to believe the institutions and their data. I fought hard for an alternative explanation - but by 2015 the data was overwhelmingly in favor of the consensus. Nothing else would do. My initial bias proved wrong. But again, it required a bit of faith in whoever was providing the information in the first place. Without that sense of common ground, there is nothing.

The human mind exists on tribal, zealous, fantasy.
Understand that. Then you will know what to expect from people's behavior.
 
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hal2kilo

Lifer
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I'm afraid we are in.....






















THE END TIMES! o_Oo_Oo_O

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zinfamous

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Yeah, the almond farmers drive me insane. Drive up the 5 in central valley and its hundreds of miles of signs bemoaning liberals liming their water draw adorning all the almond orchards. Central valley produces 80% of the worlds almonds at at LEAST 1 gallon of water per almond.

And then they ship those damn things all over the world. You wanna use the water that doesnt exist to send half your goods to china or elsewhere? Fuck right off. Grow something else. Or nothing at all, we dont need it for domestic consumption.

I fucking HATE the CA almond farmers. May the fires spread and burn their shit down forever.
 

cytg111

Lifer
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Thinking outside the box here.....

Thermonuclear Winter

Now hear me out before go off. It would actually solve a number of problems, at a multitude of different levels and intervals.
So Russia takes a load. Do not respond in any meaningful way. No-one does. MAD doesnt happen. Now every single nation on the planet is ready to walk in lockstep, cause, holy shit, nuclear bombs.... and we fix what is still fixable, a united earth (under threat of total antihalation). Problem solved.
Russia takes a load, responds, responds, responds, responds, MAD. 95% of human population vaporized. Nuclear winter. Problem solved.

I've run the numbers, it checks out. Trust me.

NUCLEAR WAR, REDEMPTION OF MANKIND.

Lets get it to the presser.