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[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 110 points 9 months ago
[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago
[-] ruford1976@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago
[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

New high score. Letssss gooooooo.

[-] orl0pl@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Climate change speedrun

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

Crap, now i've seen it.

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago
[-] vjxtdibobyd@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Joe Manchin enters the chat

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

After they avoid looking or before?

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Easy. My in-laws are republicans. They just think it’s not man-made and god will take care of everything because “he always does.” How do you argue with that level of stupidity and ignorance?

[-] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 18 points 9 months ago

The shouldn't vote and let God take care of the election.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

All we can do with useless dead weight like this is wait for them to die off. Thankfully, religion is in steep decline.

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

That is "Kill them all and let God sort them out."-level of stupid.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Honestly? Because this chart didn't explain that this isn't part of some normal cycle or that humans are directly involved in some way. Many people don't understand that.

Since I was a kid "El Niño" came around every few years and the hot air mass caused unusual summer storms and wacky winter snow conditions. This was explained as a 3-6 year cycle or something, nothing to worry about. A lot of people know about it because the weatherman loves the story.

Secondly, and I know this is a common thought: if humans are 100% solely responsible for tomorrow's temperature reading, what precisely can any single person do today, and tomorrow, and next week to have the most significant impact? And how much will it cost that person relative to the benefit he or she will receive? It's very unclear and this is a PR problem with the communication coming from many climate change activists.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 28 points 9 months ago

People think a trend that's been happening for 70 years, and is accelerating, is part of some harmless natural cycle that's never been noticed before in the entirety of human history? I guess that's possible because a lot of people are incredibly dumb, but mainly I think it's just plain old denial.

It's really hard not to be a total misanthrope.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 21 points 9 months ago

But the chart does demonstrate that the temperature has been steadily rising for over a century and this year there has been a huge spike in temperature relative to all the other years.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Seeing a massive deviation from many years should be an obvious sign that it is not normal and there should be concern.

Not to mention scientists have been clearly calling for reduction in pollution and greenhouse games for over a century, starting with companies that are the most polluting. So a single person can vote for policies that hold companies accountable, because individuals cannot solve the problem on their own.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago

Yes but how will they recover socially from peeling the 'I heart Oil & Gas" stickers off their bumpers?

Better to just keep creamating our children.

[-] 332@feddit.nu 9 points 9 months ago

"Something something solar cycle something co2 is good for plants something more people die from cold than heat something something I like it warm anyway something".

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, one way they ignore it is by listening to everyone saying that it will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in the world. In their minds this translates to “oh whew at least I’m safe from the worst.”

As true as this inequity is, I wonder if maybe we should stop talking about it, or at least acknowledge that it isn’t a motivating point for westerners with wasteful lifestyles. In fact the opposite.

[-] azn03@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Easy, they can't read graphs.

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