My hot take - climate change is about to hit in a major way!

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Anonymous wrote:This weekend is too cold and rainy for the beach where is my global warming

Oy vey. I can't even.

[Anonymous]

It just seems silly to me that all these activists brainstorm all these ideas of things to ban and replace, but that all the replacements seem to create so much more waste.

It also seems ridiculous to me that anyone who ever gets on a plane would pretend to be genuinely concerned about pollution or climate change.

[Anonymous]

OP is correct.

I do not like being on this runaway train at all. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/06/earth-record-heat-climate-extremes/

[Anonymous]

You guys are all talk. It's easy to say "we need to act NOW" behind your AC-cooled livingroom or whereever you are. Check your AC setting right now, anyone set for 78/higher or off? Yeah, I didn't think so. So typical Americans. Mine is off (but have a fan).

[Anonymous]

Billionaires be moving to another planet. That tells you all you need to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all talk. It's easy to say "we need to act NOW" behind your AC-cooled livingroom or whereever you are. Check your AC setting right now, anyone set for 78/higher or off? Yeah, I didn't think so. So typical Americans. Mine is off (but have a fan).

POLICY CHANGE!

That's where the real change is at. Make personal changes, yes, but corporate and governmental changes are needed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My hot take is that anyone that has been on an airplane in the last 10 years, owns a car with an internal combustion engine, or lives in a house with spare rooms is not serious about fixing climate change and wants everyone else to "do something" instead.

I think anyone who doesn't fully embrace and support a rapid expansion of nuclear powered electricity generation is not serious about climate change. If we do that, you can charge your electric cars with it, along with everything else. The airlines will just be a relative blip at that point.

If you're going to come back at me about "but what about the long term storage issue???" you're not serious.

Definitely against nuclear power plants but agree we need to come up with better options. Battery operated power plants seem like a much greener and safer alternative for making electricity than nuclear plants. But nuclear is a complete non-starter.

If nuclear is a non-starter, you’re not serious about climate change. You’re just someone who dislikes humanity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are all talk. It's easy to say "we need to act NOW" behind your AC-cooled livingroom or whereever you are. Check your AC setting right now, anyone set for 78/higher or off? Yeah, I didn't think so. So typical Americans. Mine is off (but have a fan).

POLICY CHANGE!

That's where the real change is at. Make personal changes, yes, but corporate and governmental changes are needed.

Both corporations and governments do exactly what their customers and voters demand. Blaming corporations is easy,but useless.

[Anonymous]

Ya’ll are so cute - I’m going to run and buy some more clover so I can save the world. Lol

[Anonymous]

“Hot take”?? Where have you been for the last 50+ years?

[Anonymous]

I figure the opposite is true. People are pretty stupid and the “experts” don’t know what’s going to happen. Remember wear a mask, no - don’t wear a mask, wear a cotton mask, wait - you need an N5, you won’t get Covid if you get vaccinated, wait - you will, keep getting boosters, I could go on…. I figure it’s the same when it comes to climate change. I wouldn’t be surprised if we enter another ice age. Aren’t we supposed to be in a major recession right now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I figure the opposite is true. People are pretty stupid and the “experts” don’t know what’s going to happen. Remember wear a mask, no - don’t wear a mask, wear a cotton mask, wait - you need an N5, you won’t get Covid if you get vaccinated, wait - you will, keep getting boosters, I could go on…. I figure it’s the same when it comes to climate change. I wouldn’t be surprised if we enter another ice age. Aren’t we supposed to be in a major recession right now?

No, we have decades of actual data on this. Look up some of the charts. It’s happening faster than was originally predicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all talk. It's easy to say "we need to act NOW" behind your AC-cooled livingroom or whereever you are. Check your AC setting right now, anyone set for 78/higher or off? Yeah, I didn't think so. So typical Americans. Mine is off (but have a fan).

Even if every individual made a major lifestyle change, it wouldn’t help much. 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all talk. It's easy to say "we need to act NOW" behind your AC-cooled livingroom or whereever you are. Check your AC setting right now, anyone set for 78/higher or off? Yeah, I didn't think so. So typical Americans. Mine is off (but have a fan).

Even if every individual made a major lifestyle change, it wouldn’t help much. 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions.

Such a pathetic, defeatist attitude. Individuals can make changes that will make a difference AND pressure companies to make larger scale changes. It's not that hard to put in a little effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I figure the opposite is true. People are pretty stupid and the “experts” don’t know what’s going to happen. Remember wear a mask, no - don’t wear a mask, wear a cotton mask, wait - you need an N5, you won’t get Covid if you get vaccinated, wait - you will, keep getting boosters, I could go on…. I figure it’s the same when it comes to climate change. I wouldn’t be surprised if we enter another ice age. Aren’t we supposed to be in a major recession right now?

Anyone with even a reasonable college level grasp of science can read the science and surmise that the climate scientists, beginning publicly with James Hansen and privately with scientists at Exxon Mobil who did the research early and accurately predicted the devastating effects of polluting our environment with so much fossil fuel emissions, that climate is changing that it is driven by human activity and that it is escalating beyond our earlier modeling predictions and that is because of the interactions of various systems and cascading effects and tipping points that earlier modeling did not account for.

Anybody who thinks there is any serious debate about what is happening and will continue happening as the earth warms is just a fool.

And the comparison to the public health system trying to manage covid19 public health advice is actually very apt. While there were things we didn’t immediately know about the virus at the outset, most of the varying advice on masks and other precautions was much more about managing public expectations in the face of short supply of PPE and resistance to public health advice.

The human factor of emotion and irrationality cannot be removed from the equation, ever. It is this same human factor that will prevent us from getting anything done on climate change at a sufficiently wide scope in a sufficiently short amount of time to prevent our grandchildren from living in a hellscape. What is already baked in is bad enough to make their lives miserable and since we are certainly not going to stop emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow or next year or even in a decade, things are going to get exponentially worse.

I spent years mourning my childlessness, but I don’t anymore. I feel sorrow for the future your kids and their kids and their kids will endure.