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1. A message of fear for Easter.
The one trend I've seen growing rapidly is terrifying: Those who understand science, while also understanding the inexorable power of propaganda from the comfortable, beginning to rationally and calmly discuss the end of the human species...
The one trend I've seen growing rapidly is terrifying: Those who understand science, while also understanding the inexorable power of propaganda from the comfortable, beginning to rationally and calmly discuss the end of the human species...
2...as those who gain their knowledge from science - not from talk radio or television commentators or politicians - watch the data come in, it has increasingly unavoidable to acknowledge that the damage of climate change has begun and it will grow exponentially over time...
3...the biggest problem is the calculations of timing of fixing to resolution. We could stop the use of all fossil fuels today, and it would only slow the train as it requires decades to come to a stop. We very well may be in the horrifying feedback loop, where....
4...melting releases methane trapped under ice, which raises the temperature, melting more ice, releasing more methane and on an on. The methane is already being released. We have had decades to address this reality, but that is the problem. We had decades. It always seems so...
5..far off. We spend endless amounts of time listening to those who profit from the status quo first say "the climate isn't warming," then "it's a hoax," then "it's warming, but man is not responsible," then a glorious mix of "the hoax is not happening but its not man's fault"...
6...& vast numbers believe this calumny of contradictions, seeing it as an opportunity to slam "the elite" who have science training, or "own the libs." Their hope for team victory overruns reason, to understand that experts know more about areas of expertise than the untrained..
7...they literally say climatologists are in it "for the money," with no understanding that "the money" is just money for research, that these people get paid no matter what, that the most valuable scientists are those who can disprove other science....
8...that there are millions available to be paid by fossil fuel companies to anyone that says "the climate is fine." They seem to believe that multi-millionaire, selfish climatologists are driving their BMWs to their mansions, while poor, public minded energy execs and....
9....the politicians they pay for are driving 1985 chevy impalas to their ramshackle apartments, having taken the sacrifice of being CEOs and politicians to protect our nation against greedy, rich climatologists. The irrationality is beyond belief. But it is there.....
10...what does all this mean? Will we destroy the world?
No. The world will be fine. Eventually, as the wars for fresh water begin, as islands are washed away, as crops are consumed in storms, as cities are flooded, as reefs are destroyed, as much of this is happening now....
No. The world will be fine. Eventually, as the wars for fresh water begin, as islands are washed away, as crops are consumed in storms, as cities are flooded, as reefs are destroyed, as much of this is happening now....
11....the world will be different. We will not. We will be gone, shucked off by the earth like an old coat, as a new evolutionary moment begins, which may or may not end before our sun explodes. Whenever climate change is discussed with statistics, the date 2100 is often used....
12...that is not "these events begin in 2100." That is, "we will gradually get worse and worse, and by 2100 the world will be like this." That is not far off. My grandparents were alive in 1919. I was alive in 2000. Thats the same number of years as from today to 2100. We will...
13...live long enough to see the wreckage caused by the baby boom generation that have consumed this planet with a greed unmatched in human history. And then our grandchildren will look at us, screaming in hatred, as we lie "We didn't know! There was nothing to be done!...
14 "...Rush said climate change was for wimps! Sean said it was a lie! I believed college dropouts instead of PhDs in science! You cant blame me!"
We know. But the majority of those in power don't care. They will be dead before the waves of torment begin lapping at their feet...
We know. But the majority of those in power don't care. They will be dead before the waves of torment begin lapping at their feet...
15....all they will have is evidence that we knew, the ability to pull up the records showing we discussed it, we had the science, but enough of us were so greedy or ignorant or sociopathic that we just didn't care.
Hopefully they will find this thread and use it in evidence.
Hopefully they will find this thread and use it in evidence.
