Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread) (Part 1)

[Wanderfound]

https://www.drillednews.com/post/climate-denial-by-any-other-name

Yes, the way that carbon dioxide interacts with the atmosphere is a simple matter of physics. But you can’t stop there—not if you believe climate change is man-made. You have to examine the histories of deforestation and fossil fuel infrastructure, and if you do that honestly you land at colonialism and slavery, and see that the climate crisis is intricately interwoven with structural racism and economic inequality and patriarchy and…I could go on.

I find it nearly impossible to look at the climate crisis without seeing the consequences of all the times white folks told people of color: “Wait, we’ll get back to it later.” To be satisfied with “incremental change” and not “push too far.” To settle for band-aids atop gaping, festering wounds.

So forgive us if our ears have turned to tin. Forgive us if we refuse to help you put on your life vest first, when you’re the one farthest from the flood. We’ve drowned in patience long enough.

Furthermore, this supposed dichotomy between climate policy and social justice has been proven false over and over. To the point of exhaustion. So if you can’t see the connections, it’s because you don’t want to.

In other words, if your acceptance of the climate crisis stops with the science, and fails to encompass the true roots in economic and social exploitation, you are being willfully obtuse. Your privilege is clouding your vision. You, my dear friend, are in denial.

In the climate context, we think of “denial” as rejection of the science. But the climate crisis no longer looms on a horizon. It has leapt out of the scientific journals, past the headlines, to our very doorsteps. It’s, quite literally, burning our houses down. Anyone who full-throatedly argues that climate change isn’t “real,” is not just rejecting science. They have dissociated from reality. (That’s a whole other ball game for a whole other essay.)

Those who deny the real roots of the crisis, on the other hand, in the face of copious evidence to the contrary? Now, that’s denial. A fact is a fact, after all. Thus, denying the history is just as bad as denying the science.

[anon29537550]

Climate change and soaring flood insurance premiums could trigger another...

Is it shocking to anyone that this will disproportionately hit the poor? I thought not.

[FGD135]

Geneva platform helps climate refugees around the world

[anon48584343]

[FGD135]

Cracks Are Starting to Show in the World's Fossil Fueled Infrastructure

[FGD135]

Oil and Gas Goons Use Sexual Abuse Image to Mock Teen Activist Greta Thunberg

[tekna2007]

A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research

[Wanderfound]

Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds

“We’ve found that one of the most worrying impacts of climate change has already begun,” said Simon Lewis, professor in the school of geography at Leeds University, one of the senior authors of the research. “This is decades ahead of even the most pessimistic climate models.”

We are out of time.

Decarbonise or die.

Now.

[anon48584343]

The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Caused the Biggest Global Oil Demand Dip in History

Wow.

[FGD135]

Exxon Derides Oil Firms' Efforts to Not Burn Down the Planet as a 'Beauty Match'

[anon67050589]

There is a very special tar pit of hatred in my heart for Exxon executives.

[KathyPartdeux]

Jeff Berardelli (WeatherProf)

[anon67050589]

How an open water swimmer braved freezing water to uncover Antarctica's 'dark...

[FGD135]

What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting to the coronavirus?

What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting...

[anon48584343]

“Bears all over the world are coming out of hibernation more than a month ahead of schedule after one of the hottest winters in human history.”

That’s pretty much my neighborhood right now.

It’s like Summer is just weeks away already.

[anon48584343]

Satellites Show Italy's Air Pollution Dissipating as Covid-19 Outbreak Worsens

So, the Earth is getting sick of all of our pollution so, it creates a virus to make us sick, we stop belching crap into the air, the air cleans up in short order and the planet is feeling much better.

[tekna2007]

But also warms because those aerosals were blocking solar radiation?

[anon48584343]

That’s in chapter two of the story.

[tekna2007]

I’m not saying the Earth wouldn’t like it! But we wouldn’t.

[FGD135]

Antarctic expedition reveals dramatic penguin decline | DW | 13.03.2020