Deny, deny, deny. Now climate change deniers are doing that even to observable, recordable phenomena, just to avoid the truth of what is happening. This is what's stopping progress towards saving our children's future.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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It hurts me that this one turned out to be a farsighted documentation.
Don't worry, next year (assuming it's not another el ninio) they'll accept this years temps and use it as proof that the climate change is fake since "it's colder than last year".
We haven't even begun to see the impact of this year's el nino event, yet.... https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/2024-hotter-than-2023-el-nino-nasa-climate/index.html
"It’s really only just emerged, and so what we’re seeing is not really due to that El Niño,” Schmidt told reporters. “What we’re seeing is the overall warmth pretty much everywhere – particularly in the oceans. … The reason why we think that’s going to continue is because we continue to put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Until we stop doing that, temperatures will keep on rising.”
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“We anticipate that 2024 is going to be an even warmer year because we’re going to be starting off with that El Niño event,” Schmidt said. “That will peak towards the end of this year, and how big that is is going to have a big impact on the following year’s statistics."
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A few goal post moves later: "it's the liberals that caused this!"
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So we've actually gotten to the point where these idiots will argue whether or not it's hot outside. I knew people could be stupid/crazy, I just didn't realize how many of them there are.
Seen quite literally during the pandemic.
Yep, with the future in store for the earth the pandemic was basically a social test and the results weren't promising.
I look at the bright side. Many idiots won the Darwin award during the pandemic.
The problem with these new idiots is that they won't get to experience their idiocy because they live in a place that's not affected yet.
I know people who literally came close to being dead from COVID who still have a lot of stupid ass opinions about the pandemic. Hell, my FIL suffered permanent lung damage to the point that he can't handle being at high elevations for very long. He struggles to breathe with any physical exertion whatsoever. Still a skeptic. Some people just kind of go all "sunk cost falacy" on their own idiocy.
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The pandemic officially retired the phrase "avoid it like the plague" for at least a third of the USA population.
- Argue that it's not hot outside
- Go outside in 120F weather
- Die
- Darwinism
Conservative: But I thought my ability to swallow bullshit was going to be a superpower, not a death trap.
When someone argues it's not hot outside in southern Europe and then goes out in Britain, there's no darwinism at play, I'm affraid.
Giving every moron the ability to broadcast to the whole world, turned out to be a really bad idea.
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All these dumb fucks have to do is actually go outside to prove themselves wrong.
I've watched flat earthers conduct foolproof experiments to prove the earth is flat, then come up with excuses when their experiment fails.
The heat is caused by Jewish space lasers or something.
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It's been unseasonably wet and cool in the UK so that's probably part of why they believe it.
Here in parts of the south USA it's been a normal summer, getting adequate rain and temps not hitting 100+ like last year as well. So I can see some of the skepticism but the world is fucking huge....If I drive one hour further north or south...the weather has changed...
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This is my parents, who emigrated from Europe in 80s.
"Greece is always this hot in the summer"
"I remember 40 degree weather when I was a kid, no one was complaining then"
"Do they expect the Mediterranean not to get hot?"
I hate to see it, especially since they're both otherwise smart people. They're just completely taken in by climate denialism.
hate to see it, especially since they're both otherwise smart people.
I hate to say it... but they are not really that smart based on that. Amd I'm saying this as someone who's mom who is "otherwise really smart", but pretty fucking stupid.
It’s the fear and guilt of having destroyed the planet their children and grandchildren (especially their grandchildren) will inherit. What they’re doing right now is shoving their heads right into the sand and selling themselves on whatever climate change denialism is out there right now.
Boomers gonna boomer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At the end of the day, they're again the ones that are going to suffer the most with the higher temperatures, it's kind of like karma really.
No they won't, they're going to live fast, die old and leave an absolute ton of healthcare cost for their descendents.
If there's one thing boomers made it clear this decade, it's that they're not going quietly.
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How does anyone maintain even a shred of hope in the face of this rampant bullshittery?
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I was on holiday in southern Europe. I was there at 43° Celsius. I know a person who witnessed 47 more southern. In places where these temperatures have been seen only over the past 10 years
I mean, it's pretty simple to know the temperature, thermometers exists. Just call someone in southern Europe and ask
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If these people were on fire and their talking heads told them they weren't they would say they weren't.
well, the millions who live there and the millions upon millions with heat waves all over the world aren’t fooled. almost no one denies climate issues now, other than people paid to do so, and soon even they will be forced to stop. too busy dealing with climate fallout they themselves experience.
Maybe they're really reptilians. The hotter, the better, they don't sweat
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Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to "make people terrified of the weather".
As we should be. These changes on our planet will be the end of us.
GBNews is basically the Fox News of the UK now, arguably worse. We came pretty close to getting it to shut down entirely when we managed to get 100% of advertisers to pull out of it, an honestly massive organising success by us at the time and one I was partly involved with, though we certainly weren't the only group pushing it we were one of the main ones. This coupled with a very lackluster launch and absolutely abysmal ratings really made it come close to getting shut down.
Sadly they were content to run it at a loss while reshuffling their approach, eventually they bounced back.
If some dumb fuck can bring a snowball into congress to show global warming isn’t real, then I should be able to bring an air conditioner and say “then what’s this for” and be taken equally as seriously.
Are these trolls literally living in their parents' basements? Like not going outside to notice it is, indeed, hot?
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