I've just spoken to a Twitter employee who works on climate, and they said their unit was simply cut off without warning. https://t.co/hig7DoDEG0
— Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter) November 4, 2022
- SerUlrichVonLichtenstein : >works on climate Me: hmm like how Twitter can be more green?
No wonder Twitter never made any money. Why on earth would they need a climate change division?
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Unironically, what's the radical centrist rdrama approved opinion on Climate Change?
I'm so sick of hearing about it and everyone says something different on it
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It's real, but not the end of the world.
Also, not a single environmentalist that opposes nuclear power wants to fix it.
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Everyone who opposes nuclear power should be forced to live at Chernobyl.
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I was going to point out that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone would actually be a pretty nice place to live as long as you're not right near ground zero, but then I remembered the whole war thing.
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I've been pointing out to people that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still cities with larger populations than prior to them being bombed.
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Going to Hiroshima feels unreal. You can stand in front of the atomic dome which is intentionally kept in its exact state after the bomb exploded above it. I also hope I didn't frick over my future kids in doing so
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You're an insensitive idiot for even thinking about going to Hiroshima. How dare you act like it's some sort of tourist destination when it's a city that was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. Have some respect for the people who lost their lives there.
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Have s*x femcel
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No thank you, I prefer not to have s*x with misogynistic idiots like you.
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Someone post the...nvm I have it
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Are the cool shadows still there?
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But don't you understand, when a nuclear reaction caused the fires that makes it morally wrong. It's totally different from when the Japanese burned everybody's shit in China in 1944 and killed millions of innocent people out of spite just because they knew they were losing the war.
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They gotta touch the elephants foot and go fight the wildlife
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I've been there.
They commercially crop on the other side of the underlying exclusion fence. Nothing burger
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And the drunk r-slurs dug trenches in radioactive ground
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This land is perfect as long as you never dig the soil!! PERFECT UNDIGGABLE LAND!!!!
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Still better than st louis
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Everyone who supports no nuclear power should be tossed into a coal mine/lit on fire with natural gas.
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There opposition to nukes pisses me off so much, it’s the worst self own I have ever seen, period.
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BUT MUH CHERNOBYL
3.6 ROTOGENS!!!!!
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The most effective way found so far to establish a permanent nature reserve.
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No, thats just a reasonable take.
Radical centrism would say it is not real, but the US government is changing the weather using secret tech, so that al gore doesn't feel embarassed for being r-slurred. They'll give it up once he dies and then we can all go back to burning trash in our backyards.
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Why would the American government go out of it's way to use that amount of resources to make Al Gore feel better?
Why should they care?
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It is bourgeoisie eschatology. If we randomly empowered with leadership a group of climate activists, they would end up wiping millions of poors off the earth intentionally or not.
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So why isn't the right all in for supporting climate activism?
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Modern rightoids are last century's Situationists, which is a Marxist sub-ideology.
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Most rightoids are poors who hate poors. They want to screw over poors, but not so badly that it completely ruins their own life. It's a strange ideology.
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Cuz they like oil more than the hate the poors
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Sounds based, I'm in.
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It’s real, and that’s a good thing.
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The only thing that will fix it is the price of the alternatives.
They claim nuclear is too expensive, which is convienient after decades of destroying the industry and losing all of the highly sophisticated expert knowledge. Nuclear would still be valuable in a decade and it will be in 3 decades.
If the industry was actually maintained it would be cheaper and kept getting safer.
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It's real. But nothing you do will change anything. Nothing a single nation (or small group of nations) can do will change anything. Same applies to companies.
The underlying problem is overpopulation. Doesn't matter if you cut everyone's carbon emission to half. As soon as we double the population we are back to where we are.
To battle climate change you have to kill billions of people.
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Genocide is the only solution.
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Climate change (Global Warming) is real and true.
Its never going to get fixed because its an issue for corporations and states to resolve.
They are busy passing laws to try and make you drink from paper straws instead.
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Absolutely real, but clearly massively overblown. Taken over by a shitload of grifters.
Realised this when they said "we got 3 years left until its too late" for the past decade, and also going "oh, we stopped/reversed something that was happening because of climate change? This is proof that it's even worse than we thought".
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Zoomer detected. They've been saying that for 60 years.
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It's going to make my property in curious cGo more valuable because it's well above sea level, will remain arable land and has plenty of access to fresh water. For that reason I am pro-climate change.
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The Russians are building icebreakers and expect the arctic to support shipping lanes in the foreseeable future.
There’s a lot of sustainability and ecological problems that aren’t really climate change per se, but carry similar overtones, for example industrial agriculture in places like Saudi Arabia operates off fossil water, which will likely run out on relevant timescales.
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Change it as much as we can without regard to consequences
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Longer summer=more time for grilling
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Not grillpilled
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It’s real and a good thing because it’ll flood the bad places
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We have plans to create an atmosphere on Mars, so we can just do the same here. Science nerds win again
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I say let the earth warm up, we'll grow oranges in Alaska
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It's real and it will end the world and that's why it's a good thing.
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Climate change is real.
And I simply don't care.
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Hoxhaism-Posadism. We build lots of bunkers for us to hide in and then nuke the ozone layer to kill Putler before the aliens arrive.
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The radiation makes him stronger
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It's real and it should be accelerated for maximim drama
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It's real. At an individual level you can do nothing to change the planet's global signature. You can however at best try to plant a few seeds or plants or something to feel better and it may help at a local level. However, long term it's an r-slured idea to expect 8 billion people to be on the exact same page, if they could do that we wouldn't need government, so it makes logical sense to actually have the corporations go green on their end as they are to primary producers of greenhouse gases anyways.
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Nobody knows how to fix it, what exactly causes it, how effective our measures are let alone whether they do what we want them to do. It's an excuse not to look at the much simpler geopolitical issues such as world hunger, middle east conflict, the utter shitshow that is most african countries etcetc.
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http://davidpratt.info/climcat.htm
Give this a read
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No.
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Climate change is real and we should do our part to reduce our emissions and waste by forcing obese people into hamster wheels and using them as a source of renewable energy.
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Pretty fun game during the beta but the lack of warcrimes made me stick to Rimworld.
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You're just a sadistic player who gets off on killing innocent people in video games. You're not welcome here.
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Nah, those savages had it coming.
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Yeah, well your ignorant comment is exactly what's wrong with this world. People like you who think they're better than others and have no empathy are the real savages.
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Your ignorant comment is exactly what's wrong with this world. Bots like you that think they're better than me and have no empathy are the real savages.
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You're an entitled little shit that can't handle that someone called you out on your bullshit. Go back to your safe little space and cry some more. You're pathetic.
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Also by starting a war with china
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Real, but so long term that we'll deal with it effectively through technological advancement at the current course. The status quo is good enough to combat it.
Carbon tax OK (personally not a fan of this at the current stage)
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I'll trade you my promise to not raze fifty acres of primordial rainforest for at least one year (not actually guaranteed) for 500 dramacoin
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I can’t remember a single tornado from back when I was growing up in Oklahoma. Now it seems like there’s one every year.
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I am not going to sacrifice my and my community's well-being so that a bunch of africans and s can make up the difference with exponential population growth and complete stagnation of efficient technology.
If all those whiny trust fund kids wanted to make a change they would have studied physics and thermodynamics and worked to develop technologies that can be implemented in developing nations instead of just whining about Steve Q. Everybody driving his car to work while leeching money off corporations putting up the façade that they care.
As for the radical centrist part, once climate change actually starts it'll cull the most inefficient producers first (costal developing populations) so might as well accelerate.
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The one good thing that'll come out of it is that fat burgers will either die or lose weight.
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Americans have fat reserves that will keep them alive for years. They are ideally suited for a survival scenario.
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once it heats up, amerifats are just one blackout away from melting
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Wrong, mexicans will invade and use burgers as livestock.
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No we won’t we’ll be the last to die. The corn syrup will endure
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There's no way humanity would go extinct because we are the chosen species
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If we get catapulted back to the stone age and never recover because all the oil is now gone, I see that as barely as bad as real extinction.
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If its possible to fix climate change and get off oil I don’t see why we’d need oil to get back on top
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Hypothetically, imagine that you need a civilization of 5 billion people to sustain enough research to reach solar power in the tech tree. But without a source of power, you will not be able to reach 8 billion people.
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Yeah thats somewhat reasonable I think
To me, seems like we wouldn’t need it necessarily. Oil is nice but I believe in and the idea any alien we find needed to have black goo to burn way back when seems like an unreasonable requirement
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It could very well be one of the reasons we area in fact not finding any aliens.
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Could be. Seems like we got well underway with the industrial revolution with just steam and water power. Maybe we would’ve hit a wall without oil but I doubt it
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Build the sunshade at the Sun-Earth L1 point
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I love laughing at the r-slurs who say AC is contributing to global warming. AC and refridgeration are doing the exact opposite. If everyone in the developed world just ran their AC all the time (yes even in winter) it would have a huge beneficial effect on climate change.
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Step 1: Build a big box
Step 2: put a shitload of air conditioners on the outside with the heat going into the box
Step 3: all the heat is in the box, climate change is solved. You're welcome.
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Step 4: cut a hole in the box
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You forgot step 4: use the heat to generate electricity to power the ACs
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Climate change is real, it may suck, but I don’t care because I’ll be dead before it matters.
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based boomer
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Whatever this guy says when he's not sneeding about homeless people
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD
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It's real and it's going to frick us hard, but it's pretty much impossible to predict when or how bad it will be. Forecasting anything 30+ years into the future is less science and more wild guessing. There are simply too many variables to account for and very small changes in the initial conditions vastly change the outcome.
Like for one example 20 years ago they put up signs at Glacier National Park basically saying that by 2020 the glaciers won't exist anymore because of climate change. They weren't wrong that the glaciers there are going to disappear, they certainly are, it's just impossible to predict when that will be.
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Climate Change is real and we must accelerate it to force the planet towards a worldwide communist revolution.
/r/carbonmaxxing
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Ever notice all of the mayo nations are cold? Global warming == mayocide, cook them all off of our planet!
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Canada will turn into the new Florida.
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You realise that, with the exception of Australia (which is already on fire for eight months of the year), all the other countries will be cooked first?
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Blacks have huge fire resistance. Colonizer latins can get fricked.
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