#climate change denier

[odinsblog]

Move along, nothing to see here. Just blizzards in Florida + record snowfall in Mississippi and Louisiana + climate change.

[narrative-theory]

The Consequence of Trump's Withdrawal from the Climate Accord on America and the World

[n0thingiscool]

Last week, the judge in Held v. Montana handed down a victory for the 16 young plaintiffs, who argued that the state’s continued production of fossil fuels violated their constitutional rights. Advocates say the landmark ruling could have broad ramifications for future climate litigation. But it’s also clear that Montana was woefully unprepared to face climate science on trial.

[riverashes]

It's a tragedy that John nuked the planet before TikTok became less cringe. "Two avocados for 10 bucks" would thematically go hard 10,000 years later.

[reclusivesapphire]

Octonauts headcanon generator results: in textpost format

this is the one I used if anyone wants it:

[firethekitty]

footage of the insane greenfield, iowa tornado courtesy of storm chaser reed timmer

[eldritch-sanctum]

The Los Angeles mega fires are bringing out all the armchair fire experts that were hiding in plain sight all along to share their expertise in YouTube comments. Where were they all along? They are sharing their brilliant insights like "It was Govenor Newscum's fault for not raking the forest", "It was arson!". "The fire hydrants ran out of water because California is too concerned about stupid little fish", and of course "As soon as this so-called fire expert mentioned climate change, I knew he was an idiot!" (Please note the above is sarcasm) Anyway, sarcasm aside, as someone who has lived in SoCal for some time, I can tell you this really is fucking unusual and a freak occurrence nobody was prepared for. Usually fires of such a large scale are in heavily wooded, rural parts where people set up big vacation houses and ranches, but these ones blazed through developed, suburban areas. Imagine a really fucking fast fire spread by a massive hair dryer set to 100 mph and the tinder isn't the "brush", but houses and cars. Also, I have never heard of the Santa Ana winds getting THAT fast before, ever. California does have a water storage issue, but it has nothing to do with environmental policies, but rather the depletion of groundwater via agriculture and such agriculture not allowing the water table to be replenished.

[imnotreadyforyou]

How To Survive a Climate Crisis (As If It Exists)

sup. check my free article out. it took me way too long and I lost my faith in humanity a little bit more with every sentence. "You don’t read the report. You don’t need to. You know better. You’ve watched a 12-minute documentary on YouTube."

"One day, all the time spent on your knees for billionaires will pay off.

Checkmate, liberals."

Free link:

This is a satirical article on MAGAts and climate change. Hope you like it <3

[tomorrowusa]

Yep, these 500 year storms seem to be happening every few years. And if Trump gets elected and his Project 2025 has its way, NOAA won't be around even to warn us of approaching disasters.

Why was Hurricane Helene so bad? Fossil fuel pollution.

Helene also rapidly intensified twice before it reached Florida, because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is off-the-charts warm — much like the rest of the Atlantic. More than 90% of warming around the globe over the past 50 years has taken place in the oceans, and it’s making storms more likely to undergo these rapid intensification cycles. Sea levels in Florida are as much as 8 inches higher than they were in 1950. The speed of that rise is increasing too. This translates to higher storm surge. Across the board, Helene was a hurricane supercharged by climate change. “For decades now, scientists have been warning us that extreme weather events will be exacerbated by this blanket of carbon pollution we’ve been wrapping around our planet,” said Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy. “But as a human, it is shocking to see the devastation occurring in front of our eyes, affecting the people and places we know and love.”

Four ways climate change likely made Hurricane Helene worse

DONALD TRUMP"S RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE...

[the-meme-monarch]

[rjzimmerman]

Want to learn the names and politics of people who are scarier or more despicable than trump and his mafia? If so, read this.

Excerpt from this story from DeSmog Blog:

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is the global far-right Woodstock, with political and thought leaders mingling with the business elite, conservative nobodies — and me.

It’s easy to dismiss Jordan Peterson, the Canadian bad boy ex-academic, as a sideshow. But when he’s standing six feet away, scowling before an audience of thousands of powerful conservatives from around the world, it clicks: Peterson’s influence has gotten too big to ignore, and his message is a danger to all of us.

“It’s time to stop our obsession with carbon altogether,” he said as he repeated the climate denial trope that more carbon in the atmosphere will cause beneficial plant growth and not climate disaster (this is false). “No more carbon apocalypse mongering and terrorizing.”

For years, I’d dismissed Peterson as a scholar who, after torpedoing his own academic career, became a YouTube personality infamous for spewing conservative political messages and basic self-help dressed up as philosophy and psychology. 

I was wrong. He is now the frontman for powerful people on the right attempting to take over the world. And I was at their self-described replacement for the World Economic Forum: the second annual conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC).

Surrounding me were close to 3,000 people, mostly men in suits, who had paid £1,500 (about CAD $2,750) to attend. Elite conservative politicians from Canada, the U.K. and Europe, the U.S., including Mike Johnson, Chris Wright, Kemi Badenoch, and Candice Bergen gave speeches. Some congregated at VIP tables in the centre of the conference hall along with representatives from fossil fuel, tech, and arms-dealing corporations. In the bleachers behind them, thousands of conservatives from around the world applauded Peterson’s attacks on climate efforts, the sexual revolution, and progressive politics. 

An army of young people wearing white softshell coats kept the peace. I took to calling these footsoldiers the “White Coats.” They had strict instructions to reveal nothing; I only learned it was a job at all, and not a volunteer gig, after overhearing two of them chat about the generous pay.   

The White Coats weren’t the only young people there. Hundreds of the attendees were about my age, in their late 20s and early 30s. I was curious what drew them to a conference where the speakers celebrated ultra conservative policies that will make the planet burn and are antithetical to the values I and my friends hold, like accepting all people regardless of race or gender, guaranteeing everyone bodily autonomy, and trusting science. 

This was not the place to be too loud about my values. But I wasn’t here to preach; I was here for work, along with Geoff Dembicki of DeSmog and my Canada’s National Observer colleague Sandra Bartlett, to witness the coalition of powerful people Peterson has brought together in a war against modern progressive liberalism. At a time of escalating climate disaster, this group is crafting a battle plan to destroy essential climate action in the name of ideology. 

This article is the first dispatch from ARC, and there’s a lot more to come on the surprising linkages we found between some of the most powerful, climate-action averse people on the planet. This conference, it turns out, is a place where they feel truly free to be themselves, and that’s what we were here to see: How do they talk, and who do they talk to, when there’s nobody else around to listen in?

ARC was co-founded by Peterson and Philippa Stroud, a conservative peer to the British House of Lords and pro-Brexit tactician known for her climate denial, to “unite conservative voices and propose policies based on traditional Western values.” It positions itself as an intellectual hub for the resurgent right. 

In the conference’s opening address, Stroud — tall and slender and enveloped by long white hair — explained the group’s mission as an orchestra played the final dramatic notes of Aaron Copeland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” 

“The West,” she said, is facing a “civilisational moment,” and the survival of countries and regions like Canada, Europe and the U.S. is on the line.  Immigration is eroding the identity of western countries. Sexual freedom and “hedonism” have made Western youth nihilistic. Diversity, equity and inclusion, and the programs and policies that support them, are harming the West’s Christian cultural foundations. Climate change isn’t a crisis. 

She quoted the Lord of the Rings  — “It was Frodo who said to Gandalf: ‘I wish it need not have happened in my time.’ ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf. ‘And so do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the times that we are given.’” 

There’s a potent irony to this, given that Tolkien was obsessed with the way power corrupts, yet speaker after speaker at the event celebrated Trump and Musk’s authoritarian takeover of the U.S. while calling on conservatives in other countries to emulate them. 

[personal-blog243]

Thinking about a certain friend of mine as a “political case study” of sorts:

I have a friend who is a working class, straight, white, Christian, man in his late 30’s with a wife and 3yr old son. His wife seems to be a centrist or maybe she just keeps certain opinions to himself but I don’t know ���🏼‍♀️. I’m just thinking about where they fall politically and how to reach out to them and maybe get them to engage in activism that ACTUALLY makes the world better instead of falling further down any conservative pipelines.

. They support decriminalizing cannabis (they partake on occasion)

. They are anti war and anti intervention in some ways, but are also patriotic and do still generally support the military in a lot of ways so I’m not sure where they fall on a lot of that. (He is a veteran) he also thinks pro Palestine protest are “supporting terrorism”

. He has a felony record and can’t vote. I think he would agree with giving felons voting rights. However, he might still lean conservative on a lot of criminal justice issues. He likely believes in a lot of the “black on black crime” type of narratives.

. They most likely leans conservative on immigration

. They leans conservative on lgbt rights, and is ESPECIALLY against lgbt representation in children’s media. However, he might be more “live and let live” when it comes to lgbt adults 🤷🏼‍♀️

. He is very skeptical of big tech and doesn’t like Elon musk

. He thinks believing in climate change is laughable and bad for the economy

. He is pro life when it comes to abortion

. He is skeptical of big pharma and thinks Covid vaccines and other restrictions ultimately do more harm than good

Basically I do think this guy is more conservative in spite of having a working class background and felony record. He seems like a “live and let live” free speech supporting person who is not necessarily offended by things he disagrees with, but it seems like he would still vote for Trump over any democrat even if he doesn’t really “like” Trump either. 🤷🏼‍♀️ he has jokes about Trump and musk both possibly being the Antichrist.

I’m just thinking about him as a case study for how the left can do a better job of reaching out to this kind of working class white millennial men. We need them in our movement.

There might be certain progressive economic policies he might get behind like free childcare for his son or maybe free healthcare or raising his wages maybe??? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[kalgalen]

i do realize the death of twitter is a disaster on a cultural level and such, that said i find it so so funny that the only person to blame is one shitty childish billionaire who thinks he knows better despite being proven time and time again he's a goddamn loser baby

[a-very-tired-jew]

I love me a science denying conspiracy theorist in the morning. They hit many of the points I discussed in this post. Their primary go to's were the disgraced fake experts were actually "silenced" for telling "The Truth". No amount of explaining why their disgraced experts were wrong is going to convince someone who is already working backwards from a conclusion to try and find "evidence" to support it.

Especially when that person is also a Covid denier and pseudoscience believer.

[misfit-mania-the-first]

There is not a finite amount of plants on the planet! They reproduce just like we do, just like animals do.

The problem isn’t that we’re running out. Its that plants are being killed off in such an intensity that they cannot replace themselves efficiently enough to make up the difference. As humans, as one of the most influential components of the ecosystem, we need to Help The Plants. Make it easier for them.

This is such a major oversimplification, but I feel the logic applies, and I hope it helps fuel your fighting.

And its not as though things are just on a steady down slope decline. Things are constantly improving and getting worse all at once, and its hard to find the positive changes when so much is so horrible. There are hundreds of countries on the planet all living in all different timezones with their own scientists coming up with their own solutions to problems most of us haven’t even heard of!

And not hearing about those problems means we have no idea how to look them up to see them improving! I promise its not so horribly bleak. There is serious hope here.

Just wanted to put some things in perspective.