#climate change deniers

[odinsblog]

Whether you call it climate change or pollution, it’s still a series of policy decisions (deregulation). Deregulation that is disproportionately upheld by greedy corporations, red state Democrats, and is enforced overwhelmingly by Republican and Libertarian controlled legislatures.

(sources and other relevant links beneath the cut)

👉🏿 https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-smoke-east-air-quality

👉🏿 https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-david-wallace-wells

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1666541345069219840.html

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648986424098652160.html

#politics #republicans #pollution #climate change #environment #climate change deniers #deregulation #libertarians #smog #forest fires #nyc #climate catastrophe #climate crisis #forever chemicals #pfps

[contemplatingoutlander]

Interesting proposal by Nate Loewentheil in a guest column in The New York Times. Not only was his proposal thought provoking, but two of the comments regarding it by readers were also worth contemplating. Below are some excerpts from the column, followed by the two comments.

Here is a proposal for the environmental movement: Pool philanthropic funds for a day, buy a small plot of land in Washington, D.C., and put up a tall marble wall to serve as a climate memorial. Carve on this memorial the names of public figures actively denying the existence of climate change. Carve the names so deep and large, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren need not search the archives. This is not a metaphor. The problem with climate change is the disconnect between action and impact. If politicians vote against construction standards and a school collapses, the next election will be their last. But with climate change, cause and effect are at a vast distance. We are already seeing the consequences of our past and present greenhouse gas emissions. In coming decades, those emissions will wreak their full havoc on the climate, and it will take hundreds, possibly thousands, of years for those pollutants to fully dissipate. But in the short term, the most immediate burdens are borne mostly by the poor in America and distant people in distant lands. Misaligned incentives are at the heart of why some political and business leaders deny and delay. [...] I would first nominate those who have sown confusion over climate science, like Myron Ebell, who recently retired as director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, where he sought to block climate change efforts in Congress, and served as the head of Donald Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Ebell has argued that the idea that climate change is “an existential threat or even crisis is preposterous.” Then there are lawmakers who have consistently stood in the way of federal action, like the recently retired senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the author of the book “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.” [color emphasis added]

Below is the first thought provoking comment to this article:

There is, in Iceland, a memorial to a dead glacier - the Ok Glacier. It reads: "Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it." [color emphasis added] --Chris D., Colorado

Photo of the plaque at the at the Okjökull (OK Glacier) memorial.

Here is the second thought provoking comment to this article:

For reference this graph https://i.redd.it/ljifc828iui31.jpg is from the Exxon internal scientific report on climate change, 1982, produced by scientists working for that fossil fuel corporation. Look at what their graph predicted for 2020. Approaching 420 ppm CO2 and a rise of 1.2 C degrees above pre-industrial temperature - very close to what we actually got in 2020. Then look at what the graph shows for later this century, based on not reducing emissions. Very serious temperature rises, that could make agriculture very difficult in many countries. Yes, and then Exxon, having seen this, got involved in PR campaigns to "cast doubt" on climate science, to protect their assets. [color emphasis added] --Erik Frederiksen, Ashville, NC

1982 Exxon graph depicting average global temperature increases over time correlating with increases in atmospheric CO2. NOTE: Graph color was modified for greater clarity.

Fossil fuel companies like Exxon, and fossil fuel oligarchs like the Koch brothers should be included in any "Climate Wall of Shame."

#climate change #disinformation about climate change #climate change deniers #climate wall of shame #myron ebell #james inhofe #koch brothers #exxon #fossil fuel industry #ok glacier memorial #nate loewentheil #the new york times

[saywhat-politics]

It should be noted that Republicans have children, too. If they care about their future, they had better start to understand just how significantly the GOP's positions on climate change will endanger their children and grandchildren now and in years to come.

Here are a few climate-related facts for 2023 as reported by NBC's weatherman, Al Roker:

There have been a record 25 climate-related disasters in the U.S. costing more than $1 billion each.

Phoenix recorded 31 straight days of 100-plus degree temperatures, breaking the previous record of 18.

Miami hit a record 46 days with a heat index of 100-plus degrees or more.

Twelve U.S. cities experienced the hottest summer on record.

Rio de Janeiro experienced a heat index of 138 degrees, the hottest ever recorded.

And, 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded on Earth!

These facts should tell us that we simply cannot afford to delay our efforts to reduce carbon emissions any longer, and that the GOP needs to get on board with implementing solutions!

We need to start by voting out any politicians who are climate change deniers.

#climate change deniers

[thedepressionoftrees]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but if you deny science, empirical evidence, or proven facts then you don't get an opinion on anything until you recognize reality

#science #empirical evidence #logic #terfs can fuck off #antivaxxers can also fuck off #same with young earth creationists #climate change deniers #and everyone else who denies facts

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Science denial is varied, but bipartisan.

#biology #science denial #science deniers #human biology #biological dimorphism #dimorphism #climate change deniers #climate change #gender ideology #queer theory #religion is a mental illness

[mizelaneus]

#climate crisis #climate change deniers

[filosofablogger]

Let's Listen To Bernie ...

Today’s inbox held a letter from none other than Senator Bernie Sanders that I thought well-worth sharing with you guys.  Love him or hate him, Bernie is spot on with everything he says in this letter. Everyone knows there is a lot going around in the world right now. The situation in Israel and Gaza is horrific and brutal. Russia’s outrageous invasion of Ukraine continues. Authoritarianism is…

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#Bernie Sanders #Climate change #climate change deniers #fossil fuel industry

[nando161mando]

"FWIW, CPAC Australia was fronted by the two Indigenous faces of the 'No' to 'The Voice' campaign, sponsored by (among a handful of others) Christian nationalist crowdfunding site Give Send Go (whose two co-founders were speakers at the event last weekend in Sydney) and featured an array of climate change denialists, racists, reactionaries & semi-professional transphobes -- along with the former Australian Prime Minster, Tony Abbott."

via @slackbastard

#ausgov #politas #australia #auspol #tasgov #taspol #fwiw #cpac 2023 #cpac #the voice #indigenous #fuck neoliberals #christianity #christofascists #christiannationalism #givesendgo #sydney #climate change denial #climate change deniers #racism #reactionaries #reactionary politics #transphobes #tony abbott #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #bigotry #bigots #hypocrite

[mondoreb]

End Times Prophecy Headlines: March 10-12, 2023

End Times Prophecy Report HEADLINES FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY March 10-12, 2023 And OPINION “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” —Matthew 24:4 “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky ===INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE: Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities, cut power to nuclear plant UKRAINE:…

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#3 videos: &039;News&039; is a created script #climate change deniers #loving A Jesus not THE Jesus #the easter bunny tooth fairy and trustworthy political heroes #the world&039;s ever-changing version of the "truth" #vaccination choices #what&039;s love got to do with it

[hezigler]

Watch "Jordan Peterson Is Not A Climate Expert" on YouTube

#some more news #climate change #climate change deniers #climate crisis #climate and environment #jordan peterson #Youtube

[whiteshadow-cat]

You’re fucking telling me that:

“If Gods can bleed, gods can die,”

And

“I was born and raised in Utah,”

Are two phrases that exist within the same Minecraft role play series

#it makes it better that the people who said this are father and son #dream #dream smp #dreamwastaken #wilbur soot #wilbur #cwilbur #fundy mcyt #fundy #cfundy #tommyinnit #dsmp #also climate change canonically exists in the dsmp #and Tommy is a climate change denier

[odinsblog]

OMG she vaporized him 😬

#greta thunberg #andrew tate #sde #small dick energy #climate change #climate change deniers #global warming #environment

[antidrumpfs]

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

#climate denial #climate crisis #climate change #climate science #climate deniers

[saywhat-politics]

#trump supporters #climate change deniers

[sucka99]

#climate change #climate crisis #climate deniers #climate

[tomorrowusa]

Put Trump back in the White House and we'll see an all out war on the planet led by Republicans and the fossil fuel industry.

In the same interview with Sean Hannity when Trump said he'd be a dictator, he also promised that he would "drill, drill, drill".

His lust for fossil fuels only continues to grow.

Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, staffed his environmental agencies with fossil fuel lobbyists and claimed — against all scientific evidence — that the Earth’s rising temperatures will “ start getting cooler.” Expect a second Trump presidency to show less restraint. Trump’s campaign utterances, and the policy proposals being drafted by hundreds of his supporters, point to the likelihood that his return to the White House would bring an all-out war on climate science and policies — eclipsing even his first-term efforts that brought U.S. climate action to a virtual standstill. Those could include steps that aides shrank back from taking last time, such as meddling in the findings of federal climate reports. [ ... ] But as the GOP front-runner, he’s gone back to alleging that human-caused global warming is fake, is baselessly blaming whale deaths on wind turbines and said last month that if elected he would be a “ dictator for one day” — in part so he could “drill, drill, drill.” Meanwhile, many of his former staffers are building out a comprehensive plan to decimate both climate policy and regulations on fossil fuels. And Trump allies expect that the former president would fill his next administration with officials who are even more hostile to efforts to address global warming.

The people on the fringe who claim that both parties are alike seem like even bigger idiots with each passing day. Putzing around with third parties is like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver.

The only way to avert a disaster for democracy and a planetary catastrophe is to vote and Vote Democratic.

It's always easier to prevent a dictatorship than it is to end it once it's in power.

#climate change #donald trump #dictator #drill drill drill #republicans are enemies of the climate #a second trump administration #fossil fuel fascism #climate deniers #trump's war on climate science #save the planet #vote blue no matter who #election 2024