• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The government never built a weather machine. But the oil companies did. It took decades, but they built a carbon spewing machine that’s doing a fantastic job changing the weather, and they knew it 50 years ago.

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    12 hours ago

    This is just being obtuse for no reason, even climate scientists would still call extreme weather events “natural disasters”.

    Humans changing the natural environment doesn’t make it any less natural. We’re part of nature too, you know.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Insurance companies: … yeah you aren’t covered because this was an unnatural disaster!

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    12 hours ago

    so, you’re saying all those hurricane damage insurance claims denied because ‘acts of god’ or somesuch bullshit, should be reversed and paid…

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    12 hours ago

    This feels more and more as just debating semantics.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    So it’s been the conservatives controlling the weather machine all along. They’ve known about, and lied about, the effects of fossil fuels since the earliest scientific studies all in the name of keeping the profit machine rolling.