Thread by @charlesjaco1

Right-wing yapping heads and propaganda have convinced American goobers that climate change and global warming are hoaxes. And the malicious refusal of US "conservatives" to act may have pushed us over the brink. 1/

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All of these items are just from the past two weeks. While an unprepared Europe grapples with record heat, bits of the North American power grid have failed because of record heat followed by the "new normal" of severe electrical storms. 2/

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Meanwhile, huge amounts of CO2--larger than any country's industrial emissions--are on track to be released thanks to all of the organic material previously frozen in Siberia's melting permafrost. 3/

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Then, there are the glaciers. Glaciers in Alaska are melting A HUNDRED TIMES faster than even pessimistic climate models predicted. A glacier in Iceland has vanished, now memorialized with a plaque. 4/

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The asylum-seekers Trump hates at the southern border are now being joined by thousands of climate refugees. This climate migration is just the beginning. Global warming has destroyed the ability of large parts of Central America to grow crops. 5/

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Climate change and the global warming it causes are like Trump's American fascism--they've metastasized faster than anyone predicted. Exxon & the Pentagon produced in-house studies 4 decades ago predicting this. Just not this fast. 6/

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Climate deniers include most GOP members of Congress. It's tribal. Denying anything's wrong is part of the Right-Wing catechism, denying anything's wrong simply because the educated "elites" their voters despise keep pointing out our home's on fire. 7/

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We would have to cut human-made CO2 emissions by 45% in the next 11 years to even have a chance of stopping runaway climate change. Those policies would have to start by the end of next year. Next. Year. 18 months from right now. 8/

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I said at the start of this thread all the links would be from the last 2 weeks. Turns out I lied. They're all from the last week. And the future? Dystopian doesn't quite cover it. 9/-end

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