Thread by @KrisAtLarge

@jordanbpeterson a sure sign @jordanbpeterson is really a dunce, is that he *talks* like a dunce about science. this muddled, profoundly ignorant man—who undoubtedly pretends, like all #Christian fanatics do these days, to be a champion and guardian of science—*makes fun* of science.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson global warming isn't tough to grasp if you know a few basic things about science. @jordanbpeterson could learn these things, if he weren't dedicated to *remaining* the dunce that he is.

the _carbon cycle_ of the Earth involves the interchange of carbon between physical phases.

@jordanbpeterson (maybe others should listen in. @bariweiss, you might like this! @sapinker, @RichardDawkins, @EPoe187, @charlesmurray, @antoniogm, @ID_AA_Carmack, @mtaibbi, @elonmusk, @BillyM2k, @pmarca, @BillGates, @melindagates, @HillaryClinton, @realDonaldTrump, you all pretend to be smart…)

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump anyway! back to it.

carbon, like all important elements on Earth, exists in a state of constant interchange between phases of matter—back and forth from gaseous to liquid, from liquid to solid, from solid back to liquid and gaseous. this is a constant, ongoing process.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump this constant interchange is what we chemists call *equilibrium*, which @elonmusk and #capitalism hates because equilibrium, i.e. the approximately constant balance between rates of change of different processes, is BORING to childlike greedy minds of the @elonmusk sort.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump mention "equilibrium" to a right-wing dunce like @jordanbpeterson or @realchrisrufo is most likely to result in some sort of crude and puerile joke—perhaps a memetic one. right-wing dunces, in general, do not *think* when they speak; they simply _react_, with jokes &c.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo until #capitalism and mass production came along, there had been a relatively stable *equilibrium* between carbon in the air—as carbon dioxide and methane and other carbonaceous gases—and carbon in non-volatile forms, in sea and on land.

this is important for *climate*.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo carbon dioxide and methane, the most important carbonaceous gases in Earth's atmosphere, have strong *absorption bands* in the infrared spectrum. that is to say, these molecules are efficient absorbers of long-wavelength light from Earth's Sun, more so than O2 and N2.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo any substance that absorbs radiant energy, the way that carbon dioxide and methane absorb infrared light from the Sun, will eventually *reradiate* that energy in the form of "heat energy", i.e. photons of even longer wavelength than the ones absorbed by the CO2 and CH4.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo this absorption and reradiation of energy is one of the most important and *obvious* physical facts about our world. it's why things get hot in the Sun: they are absorbing light, and reradiating that energy at longer wavelengths, as *heat*, as "thermal noise".

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo ("noise" refers to any stochastic, statistically determined physical process, by the way. even right-wing noise, e.g. @mtaibbi's #TwitterFiles or @thomaschattwill's writings, are more or less a stochastically driven process, containing very little true information.)

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill anyway! thanks to #capitalism, extracting carbon from the ground and burning it, thereby effecting a mass transfer of carbon from solid and liquid to gaseous form, is extremely _profitable_, and capitalists want to keep making easy money on coal and oil and natural gas.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill the carbon-fuel industry is very rich; hence for decades they've been bribing politicians all over the world, but especially in the United States and Canada and the U.K. (all of which have oil and coal industries), to fill our intellectual sphere with lies about carbon.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill @mtaibbi, who may have been a journalist once (it's difficult to tell), may have once taken a genuine interest in this issue—the way in which the carbon-fuel industry has *subsidized* scientific fraud to conceal the truth about #globalwarming. Taibbi's a lost cause now.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill both @GOP and @TheDemocrats' politicians have taken carbon-fuel bribe money; @Sen_JoeManchin owes his political career, and a lot of personal wealth, to the fact that he's been reliably bribed and bought by carbon-fuel money. @RonaldReagan was in the pocket of oil execs.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill @GOP @TheDemocrats @Sen_JoeManchin @RonaldReagan so you *may* see, Dr. @jordanbpeterson &c., that the issue is in fact a very simple one. too much carbon is being taken out of the ground and put into the air; the carbon in the air absorbs infrared light and reradiates heat; therefore, the Earth warms up far too quickly.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill @GOP @TheDemocrats @Sen_JoeManchin @RonaldReagan *atmospheric dust*, which Dr. @jordanbpeterson attempted to make fun of in his typically dunce-like fashion, is also capable of absorbing light from the Sun—which is why it's an issue when sorting out the effects of anthropogenic #globalwarming from burning carbon fuel.

~Chara

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill @GOP @TheDemocrats @Sen_JoeManchin @RonaldReagan I hope that was enlightening to at least one of you, @jordanbpeterson, @mtaibbi, &c.

but I'm not getting my hopes up.

thanks for your patience!

~Chara of Pnictogen

@jordanbpeterson @bariweiss @sapinker @RichardDawkins @EPoe187 @charlesmurray @antoniogm @ID_AA_Carmack @mtaibbi @elonmusk @BillyM2k @pmarca @BillGates @melindagates @HillaryClinton @realDonaldTrump @realchrisrufo @thomaschattwill @GOP @TheDemocrats @Sen_JoeManchin @RonaldReagan @threadreaderapp unroll