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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Good luck convincing the rubes that. Literally heard jokes about "global warming" today in the office. Had to say, well its climate change actually and wild shit means its not doing good.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Should have called it "climate instability" or "climate chaos" from the start.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It shouldn't have been "save the planet", it should have been "save the humans" because the planet will be here long after we're gone

[–] BudgetBandit 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There once was an explosion the size of Russia because the coal and oil underneath it got in contact with magma, killing 99.8% of all life on earth (before the dinosaurs) 🦕🦖- this process released more CO2 in the atmosphere than if we would burn all the fossil fuel today (I’ve forgotten by how much more)

Earth took its time, couple million years, but the carbon-silicate balance was restored. Edit: Fun fact 2 - during this time there are records of winds >800 mph, acid rain and temperatures >180°F

Fun fact: There was not a single mass extinction because of the shift of the magnetic poles, all mass extinctions can be linked to the carbon-silicate balance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"war on summer" might be the only one that works

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You will pry my summers from my cold dead fingers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Climate Change: "acceptable"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Climate Crisis is my preferred term. Gets the point across quite nicely.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Easy money.

"It's cold as fuck because a monster bolus of hot air hit the arctic from the other side of the planet, sent a chunk of the polar vortex down here. Heat directly caused this. Did you have a problem with the word 'bolus', or perhaps understanding the Earth is spherical? Was 'spherical' too big a word? I can dumb this down if need be."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Yeah except I myself didnt know that directly either. I just knew that, no, this is because of climate change not in spite of it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'It's not okay to be this stupid.'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Speaking of which ~

5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know

https://www.wired.com/story/5-physics-equations-everyone-should-know/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Please don't get yourself fired!? Facts themselves are political these days:-(.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Let them know that they changed the term to "climate change" so that stupid people would understand that the Earth getting hotter on average will make some places colder, because ice that used to be staying put, will now melt into water, which will flow into places where there wasn't water before.

That's about as dumbed down an explanation as is possible, I think, lol.