Climate change global warming natural disaster freak weather etc. (3 Viewers)

[Lili Marlene]

Yeah but freedom.

Half of my team in work are in Texas, they don't know what's going on. I do hope none of them freeze to death.

Hearing reports of power gone for as long as 16 hours, pipes freezing and breaking and trees collapsing onto things under the weight of the snow.

 

[ann post]

Hearing reports of power gone for as long as 16 hours, pipes freezing and breaking and trees collapsing onto things under the weight of the snow.

I'd say that's pretty shocking for those guys.

Biden defunded the wall yesterday, he could score some texas points by sending some of those emergency military dollars there i suppose.

 

[Cormcolash]

If only shooting your gun could heat the house

 

[ann post]

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[rettucs]

was reading that this morning. Gas altogether.

 

[hydromancer]

Spy satellites reveal extent of Himalayan glacier loss

The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled over the last 40 years, scientists say.

www.bbc.com

An earlier but interesting article about ice melting in the Himalayas which was in the news recently with similar floods affecting Pakistan in previous years.

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[ann post]

Got kicked out of the local greenway group for mentioning multimodal transport and the paris agreement.

We are fucked.

 

[magicbastarder]

what was so controversial about that?

 

[ann post]

The page / greenway is a thinly cloaked politcal vehicle for someone.
They've set up a poltical mirage that its either greenway or rail over here in the west.
I was reminding them they need both to live which isn't good for the mirage they've created.
I'd got 40% bet that once they are sure I'm out of the group they'll pivot to the postion I laid out in time for the 2023 paris accord review thing. I don't care that much I already cycle wherever I like and if 20 mins of facts on facebook is enough to steer these people where I want them then that is grand.

Also same fella is going to find out in a few weeks that said greenway goes through the land here and by default I possible amount to two landowners so that'll be craic down the line.

 

[ann post]

TLDR

It was 100% not controversial other than It was getting in the way of someone politicising the thing

 

[Cormcolash]

Well maybe you're just not very environmentally friendly!

 

[pete]

https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2021/0616/1228365-us-heatwave/

 

[Lili Marlene]

https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2021/0616/1228365-us-heatwave/

It's interesting, anyone I know in Phoenix rolls their eyes at this and says this happens every year and it's always in the news and it's never a big thing.

Having said that though, some of my teammates in Austin had blackouts yesterday

Texas Power Grid, Strained Last Winter, Now Faces an Early Heat Wave (Published 2021)

Regulators have asked residents to start conserving energy after demand hit a June record just one week into the month.

www.nytimes.com

and California, well, have the fires started yet?

 

[pete]

It's interesting, anyone I know in Phoenix rolls their eyes at this and says this happens every year and it's always in the news and it's never a big thing.

Next time ask them how you boil a frog.

 

[magicbastarder]

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0615/1228249-arctic/

"The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic has warned."

 

[Lili Marlene]

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0615/1228249-arctic/

"The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic has warned."

The amount of people who would happily use that to just double, triple down on the most destructive behaviours... certain ex-thumped members loved using that excuse to justify never doing anything.

 

[magicbastarder]

it's like covid but slower and bigger.

 

[ann post]

certain ex-thumped members loved using that excuse to justify never doing anything.

Hey I'm still here

 

[ernesto]

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0615/1228249-arctic/

"The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic has warned."

This used to give me mega anxiety. now I've accepted it but will continue to be natures bitch by recycling and buying/using less. I know deep down we are fucked but I feel better about it with my futile personal attempt.
Well That and the drugs

 

[David Kronenbourg]

This used to give me mega anxiety. now I've accepted it but will continue to be natures bitch by recycling and buying/using less. I know deep down we are fucked but I feel better about it with my futile personal attempt.
Well That and the drugs

Same, also I'm not having kids