Red States and Climate Change

[Anonymous]

People read that an ice age is coming and expect it to start next Tuesday, and when it doesn’t they think science itself is wrong. And this disparity in time frames is what makes current warming so terrifying.

Ice ages occur when the earth COOLS by around 4-6 degrees C below holocene averages. This takes a looooong time to happen. Like tens of thousands of years. Without our input, the planet was on track to slooooowly cool over the next 50,000 years. That’s around 5 times longer than the recent Holocene epoch during which human civilization flowered.

But anthropogenic activities disrupted this process. We are now on track to HEAT the planet by close to 4 degrees C within a couple of hundred years. That’s insanely fast. Natural systems simply cannot adapt to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People read that an ice age is coming and expect it to start next Tuesday, and when it doesn’t they think science itself is wrong. And this disparity in time frames is what makes current warming so terrifying.

Ice ages occur when the earth COOLS by around 4-6 degrees C below holocene averages. This takes a looooong time to happen. Like tens of thousands of years. Without our input, the planet was on track to slooooowly cool over the next 50,000 years. That’s around 5 times longer than the recent Holocene epoch during which human civilization flowered.

But anthropogenic activities disrupted this process. We are now on track to HEAT the planet by close to 4 degrees C within a couple of hundred years. That’s insanely fast. Natural systems simply cannot adapt to that.

Exactly. The glib comments like “climate changes all the time” drive me nuts when they leave out any mention of the magnitude and time scale involved. Normally climate changes on slow geological time scales of thousands of years. What we are dealing with is a clear shift that corellates perfectly in the data with the Industrial Age. It does not relate or compare to natural events like forest fires, volcanoes or other things because we humans have literally pulled the equivalent of millions of years worth of compressed, concentrated biomass out of the ground and burned it, putting massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. And all of that is causing heat to concentrate, in the atmosphere, in the oceans, and so on.

Anyone trying to deny this, to shrug it off, is not an honest broker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unlike you I care about those missing girls. Neither you nor your fellow progressive deplorables have even expressed any concern for them at all in this thread. Maybe it’s because they’re (presumably) Texans.

Just look at what you’ve become.

Let’s all hope those girls are found safely. Until then, you can keep spinning this for political gains.

Nope. 3 posts above yours, which was posted only 25 minutes into the thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 young girls are currently missing. Maybe wait for. Resolution before politicizing it.

Eh, who am I kidding? You’re incapable of that. It’s what you do - because you hate 1/2 the country.

np: Climate change is not political! That's what's crazy about the Republican fight against doing anything to address it.

Meanwhile, your Dear Leader Daddy is the one consumed with hate. He has an awful, terrible, hateful, whatever enemy in every he speaks.

Those poor girls! I surely hope they are found in safe condition. What a terrifying event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unlike you I care about those missing girls. Neither you nor your fellow progressive deplorables have even expressed any concern for them at all in this thread. Maybe it’s because they’re (presumably) Texans.

Just look at what you’ve become.

Let’s all hope those girls are found safely. Until then, you can keep spinning this for political gains.

Nope. 3 posts above yours, which was posted only 25 minutes into the thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 young girls are currently missing. Maybe wait for. Resolution before politicizing it.

Eh, who am I kidding? You’re incapable of that. It’s what you do - because you hate 1/2 the country.

np: Climate change is not political! That's what's crazy about the Republican fight against doing anything to address it.

Meanwhile, your Dear Leader Daddy is the one consumed with hate. He has an awful, terrible, hateful, whatever enemy in every he speaks.

Those poor girls! I surely hope they are found in safe condition. What a terrifying event.

Those climate deniers are so damn dishonest. We're trying to prevent millions of senseless deaths due to climate change over coming decades but they ignore that and post BS claiming we don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unlike you I care about those missing girls. Neither you nor your fellow progressive deplorables have even expressed any concern for them at all in this thread. Maybe it’s because they’re (presumably) Texans.

Just look at what you’ve become.

Let’s all hope those girls are found safely. Until then, you can keep spinning this for political gains.

Nope. 3 posts above yours, which was posted only 25 minutes into the thread.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 young girls are currently missing. Maybe wait for. Resolution before politicizing it.

Eh, who am I kidding? You’re incapable of that. It’s what you do - because you hate 1/2 the country.

np: Climate change is not political! That's what's crazy about the Republican fight against doing anything to address it.

Meanwhile, your Dear Leader Daddy is the one consumed with hate. He has an awful, terrible, hateful, whatever enemy in every he speaks.

Those poor girls! I surely hope they are found in safe condition. What a terrifying event.

Those climate deniers are so damn dishonest. We're trying to prevent millions of senseless deaths due to climate change over coming decades but they ignore that and post BS claiming we don't care.

DARVO is all they have.

[Anonymous]

Did Trump visit Texas to express concern about the missing girls and offer sympathy to the families? Or did he play golf and eat ice cream?

“Don’t politicize this” really means “don’t call attention to how Republicans f***ed up”.

[Anonymous]

Wow, children are dying and MAGA doesn’t want to help them or prevent more children from dying. Instead they want to selfishly give all their money to billionaires at the expense of their own children. Sad!

The ones who voted to keep FEMA funded or voted to curb climate change or to keep children fed and healthy - they are the only ones who care about the children. MAGA hates children and wants to make children’s lives miserable and make their land uninhabitable. Sad!