No Climate Change My Alabaster Ass

[Peloso]

I kinda like the scenario in the YouTube video you posted above.

You'd probably like that movie. It's list of targets includes almost everything that pisses me off: climate change/science denial, social media idiocy, banal (to the point of being surrealistically stupid) daytime talk shows, billionaires (specifically Musk), and the circus-level absurdity that US politics has sunk to.

For some reason, it's response has been polarizing. You either love it or think that it's too obvious and pandering, but these are topics I will never tire of seeing lampooned with bitter cynicism. It's a bit over-directed, but the performances are all excellent.

 

[cabinfever]

^^^ I will check it out if i can tonight. I pay for Netflix on my ROKU but rarely watch anything.

 

[cityboy-stl]

You'd probably like that movie. It's list of targets includes almost everything that pisses me off: climate change/science denial, social media idiocy, banal (to the point of being surrealistically stupid) daytime talk shows, billionaires (specifically Musk), and the circus-level absurdity that US politics has sunk to.

For some reason, it's response has been polarizing. You either love it or think that it's too obvious and pandering, but these are topics I will never tire of seeing lampooned with bitter cynicism. It's a bit over-directed, but the performances are all excellent.

Don't Look Up was great! It was a camp parody analogy of climate change along with everything else you mentioned. It was well done. I wasn't sure if the billionaire parody was Musk or Zuckerberg, but both work.

Did you happen to notice how much Jonah Hill's character resembled Trump Jr.?

The film is polarizing because it is clearly targeting the far right. DiCaprio's character calls them fascists and sociopaths, which they are. But the far right are such morons. I've seen any number of FB posts arrogantly claiming the film was about "leftists", if you can believe that. I guess maybe a few of the really far-left could fit too. But most of those people are not really far left, despite claims to be. They are really reactionary, libertarian populists who are just as bad as the far right.

 

[TX-Beau]

It was Musk.

I tried to find the humor, but mostly it just depressed me. God knows I'm so tired of these tedious douchebags.

 

[MARMITE]

The biggest mistake was referring to it as 'Global Warming'. Big mistake.

Venus and Earth were water planets at one time - oceans, rivers, lakes, waterfalls...

Then it all went wrong. Greenhouse gases caused intense clouds, holding in the heat from the Sun, sending temperatures soaring. Rivers and lakes dried up. Waterfalls grander than Niagara Falls vanished. Oceans evaporated. Today, the mean surface temperature on Venus is 847°F (453°C). It's hot enough there to melt lead.

That's where Earth is heading.

You must be kidding, right? Venus has always been extremely hot. It is much closer to the sun. The sun is ultimately what determines how hot we get.

The fossil record is the record of climate change and animals and plants evolving to adapt to an ever changing planet. It will keep on changing, even long after all humans go extinct. And yes, that will happen eventually. No species has managed to keep from going extinct, when you look at the fossil record. Hopefully, we will evolve and those will live on awhile longer, but the humans we know today will eventually go extinct. And there will come a day when all life on this planet will be snuffed out by the red giant phase of our sun.

 

[72-Jay]

Climate Change/Global Warming/whatever tf they want to call it. ...
No.
Just cycles of nature (which may or may not be influenced by humans (honestly I'd be more worried about the pollutions/toxins/etc themselves than any minor influence it might have on weather/nature. ))

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As far as weather where I'm at... yeah this winter we've had more cold & snow than the past multiple years of winters... but if anything its been closer to 'normal' than those.

 

[TX-Beau]

Climate Change/Global Warming/whatever tf they want to call it. ...
No.
Just cycles of nature (which may or may not be influenced by humans (honestly I'd be more worried about the pollutions/toxins/etc themselves than any minor influence it might have on weather/nature. ))

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As far as weather where I'm at... yeah this winter we've had more cold & snow than the past multiple years of winters... but if anything its been closer to 'normal' than those.

This is comic. I can't decide if it's a troll or just ignorance.

 

[gsdx]

You must be kidding, right? Venus has always been extremely hot. It is much closer to the sun. The sun is ultimately what determines how hot we get.

No, I am not kidding. In fact, when NASA launched the early probes to Venus, they had expected them to 'splash down'. Fly-by missions revealed the truth, that the probes would face intense heat and pressures up to 100 atmospheres. That's 100 times the atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level.

Venus was once a habitable planet and, by the way, so was Mars. The reason that Mars doesn't have an atmosphere anymore is because it doesn't have a magnetic field anymore. Earth has a magnetic field. That's why we still have an atmosphere.

By the way, the CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere is about 0.04%. In 1960, CO2 content was 310 PPM (Parts Per Million). Currently, it is 410 PPM, and humans are responsible for over 30 percent of that increase.

By the way, the Venera 4 probe in 1967 determined that the CO2 levels in Venus' atmosphere was 95%.

I repeat: no, I am not kidding.

 

[cabinfever]

You'd probably like that movie. It's list of targets includes almost everything that pisses me off: climate change/science denial, social media idiocy, banal (to the point of being surrealistically stupid) daytime talk shows, billionaires (specifically Musk), and the circus-level absurdity that US politics has sunk to.

For some reason, it's response has been polarizing. You either love it or think that it's too obvious and pandering, but these are topics I will never tire of seeing lampooned with bitter cynicism. It's a bit over-directed, but the performances are all excellent.

I watched it and thanks for the recommendation.

My favorite part was when trump got eaten at the end.

I wonder if the poor bird spit him out though. It had to taste bad.

 

[cityboy-stl]

For factual science about climate change, one should look at the NASA climate change website to examine real data. We are not dealing with "natural cycles". What is happening now has never occurred, ever, in the past 800,000 years. Do you have the mental curiosity or not? If you really examine the evidence, and you still come away believing climate change is not caused by human activities, you simply do not want to believe, and you choose to live in a fantasy of delusion, denial, and rejection of reality - Don't Look Up. There is no other way to put it.

Climate Change is a deadly serious, catastrophic emergency.

Climate.NASA.gov <=== LINK

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Venus was once a habitable planet and, by the way, so was Mars.

Honest question: How is it that we know that?

 

[cityboy-stl]

Honest question: How is it that we know that?

NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable [NASA]

Venus May Have Supported Life Billions of Years Ago [Space.com]

 

[gsdx]

Honest question: How is it that we know that?

It's a region in the Solar System in which the conditions are/were right for the development of life as we know it. Earth, Venus, and Mars were all in the 'Habitable Zone' (a.k.a. the Goldilocks Zone). Both Mars & Venus are still in the Habitable Zone, but since Mars has no atmosphere to speak of and Venus has enough to melt lead...

Also, physical evidence on both Venus and Mars indicate that, at one time, there was an abundance of liquid water.

 

[Kulindahr]