The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.
  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    241·
    6 days ago

    It is almost like everything the scientist have been saying for years is true. Shocking! /s

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
    11·
    6 days ago

    I wonder how many more millionaires and billionaires are going to go on camera to cry that their houses are lost when they asked and pushed for this.

    So far, it’s one…

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 days ago

    “Climate change risk is real, just much slower than alarmists claim,” Mr. Musk wrote to his 211 million followers on X, the social media site he owns.

    What the hell does that mean? The risk is slower than alarmists claim? Who is making claims about the pace of climate change risk? Can he name a single, credible person? And which risks, exactly? How far up his own ass did he have to reach to pull this out?

    “We sound like a broken record but only because the records keep breaking,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which monitors global temperatures…They will continue to break until we get emissions under control."

    To be clear, “get emissions under control” means reach net zero emissions as quickly as possible.

    But the world is not getting emissions under control. In fact, last year countries released record amounts of planet warming gases into the atmosphere, even as the consequences of climate change have become painfully clear.

    Because we have built global civilization that runs on fossil hydrocarbons. And it wasn’t an arbitrary choice, they contain a lot of energy, and we need energy. A fuck ton of it, and more every year.

    What we need to do, more than anything, is to start thinking about energy. Everything takes energy, and we treat it like it’s free and infinite. It ain’t.

    • naeap
      4·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, by now those idiots tell me, with a shit eating grin, that it’s too late anyway

      Like if that fucked up situation is a binary option…
      Yeah, let’s just make it even worse, because can someone please think of the poor economy?!!
      As if the disasters won’t (sorry “don’t” because it’s not in a hypothetical future anymore) cost us unpayable sums.
      But this money for repairs is public money and those shitheads already took it their share on our all fucking cost

      I can’t even start to understand that “reasoning”