#climatechange
The irony that the Green party call themselves that, is that if Stein siphons votes away from Harris in swing states, they will be actively harming the planet as Trump plans to blow past 2C, and if nothing is done soon, research shows we could reach 3.1C at the end of this century if we continue with business as usual. #climatechange
Remember, it was too expensive to prevent #climatechange
โฒ Peter Gleick - 2024-10-24 00:07:35 GMT
Please, tell me again how expensive it will be to stop burning fossil fuels and deal with #climate change?pbs.org/newshour/nation/north-โฆ
I'm interrupting my hashtag games to address the lead-off #RachelMaddow began her show with--you know, the business about the voter's vote as a business decision. She ticked off all of Trump's business failures and all of Biden's successes in market terms, but she left out the profiteering part of Bidenomics attached to Israel's war and Russia's war against Ukraine.
Biden was correct to point out that those billions approved for the defense of Ukraine and now Israel is money going to our own military industry. But they're also responsible for dumping pollution into the air. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
Meteorologists tracking the advance of Hurricane Milton have been targeted by a deluge of conspiracy theories that they were controlling the weather, abuse and even death threats, amid what they say is an unprecedented surge in misinformation as two major hurricanes have hit the US.
A series of falsehoods and threats have swirled in the two weeks since Hurricane Helene tore through six states causing several hundred deaths, followed by Milton crashing into Florida on Wednesday.
The extent of the misinformation, which has been stoked by Donald Trump and his followers, has been such that it has stymied the ability to help hurricane-hit communities, according to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).
#US #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Politics #Idiocracy #Dumbfuckistan #Hurricane #Scidncd #Climate #Science #AntiScience #Florida
An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/weather/sahara-desert-green-climate/index.html
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/113289032171493870 breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social - Excerpts from an opinion piece in Current Affairs that does not mince words...
Hurricanes have occurred throughout living memory, and every hurricane season is going to have deadly storms, but warming oceans make the storms worse, causing higher wind speeds, heavier rainfall, and more severe storm surge. The warming itself is, of course, caused mostly by the burning of fossil fuels.
This really is not complicated. We have to stop using fossil fuels as rapidly as possible, because theyโre causing a massive global calamity that is not just bringing us worse storms, but drawing us closer to irreversible tipping points that will escalate the speed of changes and cause human suffering on an unprecedented level. Scientists who study planetary โvital signsโ say we are imperiling the very fabric of life on our planet and causing an โabrupt climate upheaval, which jeopardizes life on Earth like nothing humans have ever seen.โ
You would think, then, that because of the serious harm being done, our political leaders would be treating the situation as an emergency and acting accordingly. Not so. In fact, there is an astonishing amount of denial, and itโs bipartisan.
On the right, Republicans just outright deny climate science, which J.D. Vance calls โweird scienceโ and Donald Trump thinks is a Chinese hoax. Even Florida politicians like Marco Rubio downplay the problem despite its immense harmful impacts on the state. The stateโs governor, Ron DeSantis, has stripped mentions of climate change from state laws, perhaps in the hope that by pretending the problem doesnโt exist, we can make it go away.
The rightโs denialism is atrocious. They seem to want to march us straight into the abyss.
But letโs be honest: Democrats havenโt been much better.
Democrats have shifted in the way they discuss climate change. Instead of emphasizing the seriousness of the problem and the need to pivot away from fossil fuels, they boast about record levels of oil and gas production. The issue can be awkward for Democrats, and recently the White House was seeking to avoid the fact that President Biden, who has called for a transition away from fossil fuels, has overseen the biggest oil and gas boom in United States history.
The Wall Street Journal, in a remarkable recent report, says Big Oil is trying to make sure Donald Trump doesnโt gut the Democratsโ signature โclimate law,โ the Inflation Reduction Act. Thatโs not because fossil fuel companies want to save the planet, but because the law actually contains huge handouts to them!
The failure by our political class to deal with this completely solvable issue is staggering and shameful. Many of them have children and grandchildren. Presumably they would like their descendants to inherit a world worth living in. And they could make that happen. Unfortunately, it would require challenging the power and profits of some of Americaโs most influential corporations.
Those corporations have lobbyists crawling all over U.N. climate summits to make sure any global action is watered down to the point of uselessness โ which they do with the support and collaboration of Democrats who supposedly care about the crisis and think itโs real!
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-should-be-furious-at-the-political-class-for-enabling-this-climate-catastrophe
#Politics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
While crying
โฒ Peter Gleick - 2024-10-10 04:55:41 GMT
"I told you so."
Pretty much what every climate scientist is thinking these days.
#climatechange
#hurricanes
