The weather this year is scaring me more than normal in south Texas. Not because the abnormal amount of rain but because the absolute lack of heat. Usually this time of year it’s 100+ for weeks on end.
No, see, all this happened to maga coded places not famously queer places, do it's not the wrath of god.
Some are unironically already saying it's evil liberal cloud seeding.
Reply that it's God punishing the nation for electing a pedophile president.
Some are already doing violence about it.
We tried to warn them.
Fun fact, the reason we all call it "climate change" and not "global warming" was because the George W Bush administration directed NASA to do so, as they deemed it less "scary" to the public:
In interviews, Republican politicians and their aides said they agreed with the strategist, Frank Luntz, that it was important to pay attention to what his memorandum, written before the November elections, called ''the environmental communications battle.''
In his memorandum, Mr. Luntz urges that the term ''climate change'' be used instead of ''global warming,'' because ''while global warming has catastrophic communications attached to it, climate change sounds a more controllable and less emotional challenge.''
Also, he wrote, ''conservationist'' conveys a ''moderate, reasoned, common sense position'' while ''environmentalist'' has the ''connotation of extremism.''
President Bush's speeches on the environment show that the terms ''global warming'' and ''environmentalist'' had largely disappeared by late last summer. The terms appeared in a number of President Bush's speeches in 2001, but now the White House fairly consistently uses ''climate change'' and ''conservationist.''
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/us/a-call-for-softer-greener-language.html
What drives me insane is how everyone on the left just... went along with it. Now we retroactively rewrite history and claim that they were always separate terms with entirely different distinct meanings. And knowing that so many highly educated, inquisitive, independent thinking people didn't think to question that or look into that, it frightens me.
The left went along with it because they were tired of all the "then why is it so cold in winter?" comments from the stupid half of the family tree.
While the Bush administration certainly had (very obviou$) reasons for trying to downplay it, I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.
Ex: every time some dumbfuck Republican brought a snowball into Congress to talk about how global warming is fake because look here’s snow!!
I also remember at least some scientists at the time arguing that climate change was a better term because people are particularly stupid about the term global warming when it paradoxically results in some places having a greater number of and more extreme cold events.
That's how I recall the term climate change coming into favor, too.
That snowball guy finally died last year, thank God. Too bad it wasn't from a flood or hurricane.
God, I wish it only happened once.
Good to know! They should have been a little more creative and called it something familiar and snappy like Sport Utility Environment or Gas Guzzler.
So remember that tipping point we were warned about? Yeah, its happening. The deep ocean currents in the southern ocean have reversed.. TLDR: warmer saltier carbon dioxide rich water is now coming up from the deep ocean instead of being trapped there. It is melting sea-ice from below and could eventually lead to the reversal or stagnation of other ocean currents.
Even better, this occurred about a decade ago, and we didn't even realize it untill now.... meaning the global thermohaline circulation cycle has been collapsing for a decade.
Oops.
Irreversible. Can't fix.
No going back.
In all likelihood, we have Great Filtered ourselves.
Best case scenario, we get a century or so, starting basically now, of civilization collapse, mass famine and death, attempts at mass migrations that mostly get Holocausted, and of course wars, potentially nuclear wars...
...and then maybe in 100 years the remaining human population of roughly 1-2 billion can maybe figure out a new paradigm... if we have not just permanently broken the biosphere, and already extracted all the easily extractable natural resources.
Sure glad republicans are in charge of everything
And none blasted that vile Maralago place... Fingers still crossed
They're not "1 in a thousand years" anymore!
They're once a week!
4 times a week now!
This is gonna create some real bad problems for building codes. Lots of stuff is designed with statistical probabilities in mind, where they account for varying levels of rare extreme weather events. If the 1 in 100 years storm becomes a 1 in 10 years storm, then lots of stuff will be in trouble.
Uh yeah, actuaries have already determined the world GDP will be catastrophically damaged, forever, if we don't limit warming to 2C.
We already blew past 1.5C, if you didn't know... and also, the trend in the last decade is continuously that the climate is breaking harder and faster than the scientific consensus broadly projects... so its probably gonna be actually worse than this.
...
US insurance companies have already figured out that roughly the bottom 1/3 of the US will be uninsurable in 10 years... which is why they're either massively upping insurance rates, or largely pulling out of the home insurance business in CA, FL, other southern US states and regions, which is causing all these states to bankrupt themselves as they try to offer a public/government version of home insurance, but refuse to tax people appropriately or fairly to be able to actuslly fund such an endeavor.
Generally, you can't get a home mortgage without insurance, you can't own and rent a place out if you don't have property insurance.
...
tl;dr: You have no idea how fucked we all are.
I remember when 1.5C was the threshold instead of 2. We're already living in yesterday's doomsday scenario.
Generally, you can't get a home mortgage without insurance, you can't own and rent a place out if you don't have property insurance.
So, Canada, then?
I am unironically moving to Minnesota ASAP.
Cheapest to live in decently blue state, all the climate risk assesments I've seen seem to show that, as long as you're not living right on the Mississippi, pretty low comparative climate risks... oh, and their housing market (thus economy generally) is fairly stable, compared to about half of the rest of the country, whose housing market is currently crashing harder than the 06-08 GFC.
Canada isn't a bad option at all, but its actually fairly difficult to legally migrate there.
Its gonna be really, really funny when the Canadians start deporting waves of poor Americans fleeing northward, in about 5 to 10 years.
it's okay the trump fascists will dismantle NOAA and then we won't know any of this anymore :3
lots of stuff will be in trouble.
Like, civilization?
Depends on where you live and how smart the people there were about planning for climate change. Residential houses are probably not the biggest issues. Its the more extreme constructs like skyscrapers and bridges that might be in trouble sooner than that.
Or you know, the global supply chain and food systems. Breadbaskets will need to function throughout all this.
Yeah ofcourse, there are going to be problems in every aspect of our lives. I was just specifically thinking about this statistical thing that is used for building safety considerations during construction.
Trump: See how it is? Even the best storms are in the USA now! Make Rains Great Again. Glory to the beautiful me!
Anyone remember this classic line from Trump 1.0 about hurricane Florence?
This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water
Lets hope he doesn't nuke the next one.
https://www.axios.com/2019/08/25/trump-nuclear-bombs-hurricanes
Bullshit. Trump will blame this on Democrats.
Kamala Harris as seen by MAGAts:
Marjorie Trailerpark Greene is literally advancing a bill to ban chemtrails.
A thing that does not exist nor happen at any kind of scale whatsoever, beyond very, very limited and occasional scientific tests... decades ago, and were funded via programs and grants the Big Bullshit Bill and other Trump EOs have decimated.
They do, literally, unironically, blame made up, magic, conspiracy nonsense instead of even attempting to agree with the vast, vast, vaaaaast majority of climate scientists, and even corpo scientists that work for fossil fuel companies that broadly predicted all this would happen roughly 30 years before public science caught up with it (thanks to the lobbying and propoganda campaigns of the same fossil fuel corps.)
They will do literally anything other than admit that they are wrong, their understanding of the world is objectively delusional.
They're too good at magic sky daddy logic.
He already was blaming the Texas floods on Biden. The all powerful Biden, causing all kinds of trouble 7 months after he left office. Trump wishes he had power like that.
Ignorance is bad. Willful ignorance is deadly.
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