Sea-level doom from Antarctic melting

No need to cut us off, we've sworn it off already.

 

Good thing you are not obsessed by them living rent free between your ears.

Bob Wilson

 

I voted for Obama his first term

I'm not blind to the mistakes Trump makes, but I'm pretty sure Progressives don't even know that Obama presided over the biggest environmental crime and the biggest financial crime in the history of man.

And no, appointed puppet presidents aren't living in my head rent free or otherwise, just here to red pill. But you already took the blue one so it's just here for the dear reader.

 

Whataboutism

 

A tonne is one million grams. Who had the bright idea to use petagrams instead?

 

The fact there are climate deniers, climate enlightened and climate activist, will amount to nothing, we are already past the tipping point, those in the really cold regions will think it's great, until the climate swings become so intense they can no longer buy food because the rain will either be none, or so much it washes the top soil and the crops away.

When I look at my new grandson and granddaughter, what do I say when they are old enough to understand .... sorry isn't going to be enough, we'll be dead because we will be too feeble to tolerate the wild season changes, all the money made by those who profited from it, won't be able to buy any more yrs of living the high life, they certainly aren't setting up a great new world for their offspring ...... so what was/is the point of all of the fairytales about "global cooling" and "it's nothing to do with anything they did", they won't be remembers as the great business tycoons they think they are now, they will be remembered as the greedy generation that made life so difficult for future generations that their names will become curse words ......

The thing that is going to be really hard for so many, "We didn't know" simply won't wash, I'd hate to be one of those labelled a "Climate Denyer" when the tipping point becomes undeniable and the realisation that it's simply too late to fix it .... as the "system" breaks down, the young ones left that have to face what will be a harsh reality, you can bet they won't view those that denied them a rosy future with any sort of compassion, more likely the target of frustration

T1 Terry

 

I've never thought it was a good approach to get all panicked and hysterical about a problem.
I've always had better results from taking it rationally.

 

A thousand grams is a kilo, and a thousand kilos…, yeah, that’s right.

Oy, my brain is full.

 

I'm not sure I'd have a strong preference between "petagram" or "billion tonnes" either way. They're three syllables each and about equally easy to say. As long as I remember my SI prefixes, I know just how many grams a petagram is, without having to first remember how many a tonne is.

I have a feeling that for people who rarely grapple with really big numbers, "petagram" and "billion tonnes" may be about equally hard to grasp, and for people who do that more as a matter of course, they're both about equally easy.

Edit: I guess for older speakers of British English, "billion tonnes" could also lend itself to misinterpretation and "milliard tonnes" might be clearer to them. Or just petagram.

 

So what are Bill Gates, Larry Fink, Jamie Diamond, the Democrats, and the Rinos doing about it? They already moved our industry to China where they build 2 new coal fired power plants per week, and they want to leave it there. They are moving 3rd worlders into the 1st world by the millions so we can have more cars. They want more GMO's and glyphosate so we can finish ruining the topsoil. Gavin Newsom spent $20 Billion in 10 years building a high speed rail bridge that's not even 10 miles long. Obama dumping a world record amount of crude oil, topping it with chemicals and letting the criminals go free?

It's still only a 150 ppm increase in CO2 over 150 years. And around 1 deg F rise in temp. Nothing compared to what happens naturally. It's entirely possible we are just holding off another ice age, it's actually due.

I hold out hope for the younger generation, Boyan Slat was only 16 years old when he started Ocean Cleanup, the only major entity that's working on cleaning up plastic garbage worldwide.

Bill Gates Larry Fink et al isn't doing anything to fix any of the major environmental problems, they are just making it worse. Their "solution" is to kill everyone off.

 

China has a weird habit of building more junk than the market can afford and then just dumping it. Houses, bicycles, EV cars, everything gets built and then thrown away, often before even being used

Tell us Tochatihu, how does 2 new coal fired power plants per week fit into your wishes for CO2 reduction? You do know our crooked politicians and corporations intentionally moved our industry to China right?