Why Do Americans Continue to Deny Climate Change?

LoveDragon · May 21, 2011

I believe in science and that it is nature way to rejenurate the world by rejecting evil vile things, and regrow new species and all that. Nature and climate change is part of the evolution change in us all. Without it, we may breed as all species to extenction. We need better way to grow food, feed everybody and the hungry, find cures, accept spay and nueter of all animals including human, blah just joking on spay and neuter.

pat grimshaw · Jun 17, 2023

metta said:
Why Do Americans Continue to Deny Climate Change?

This affluent-looking Democrat (who, I assume, drives 2 motor cars and has plenty of plastic in his house) has his say on the matter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1670211309340688390

Peloso · Jun 17, 2023

^ I'd love for him to fuck me when he's like that.

pat grimshaw · Jun 17, 2023

Peloso said:
I'd love for him to fuck m

I think he would draw blood,

cityboy-stl · Jun 17, 2023

pat grimshaw said:
This affluent-looking Democrat (who, I assume, drives 2 motor cars and has plenty of plastic in his house) has his say on the matter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1670211309340688390

He is totally right.

Essex Boy · Jun 18, 2023

He sounds like he's been too long in the sun. Have a nice cup of tea and watch these.

rareboy · Jun 18, 2023

We have seen a dramatic change on our own farm over 35 years, hotter, drier summers, less snow in winter, more violent weather events.

And of course the increase in raging forest fires destroying millions of acres of cover isn't going to help.

The question isn't if...it is only a matter of when. Maybe this century, maybe into the next...but we are clearly approaching the tipping point of mass extinction of species.

And the answer is simple. Humans love to destroy nature and plunder the planet without having to bear the costs.

But play on. I suspect that the Boomers and the Gen X'ers are happy to ignore.

cityboy-stl · Jun 18, 2023

Essex Boy said:
He sounds like he's been too long in the sun. Have a nice cup of tea and watch these.

^^^ REJECTION OF REALITY. ^^^

DON'T LOOK UP!

Do you want the FACTS? I know you don't because I've told you before and you ignored it....but HERE: https://climate.nasa.gov/

Essex Boy · Jun 18, 2023

^
Did you actually listen to those two talks? If so, could you please summarise them briefly? Which points in particular has he got wrong? When Mallen does a feature on climate change I usually have to rewind and listen to most of it at least twice.

cityboy-stl said:
Do you want the FACTS?

Yes, please. By the way, the reason Mallen Baker's channel doesn't have a very big following is because he refuses to adopt the sort of extreme, polarising positions that attract viewers. You know how it is: you've only to look at Hot Topics to see what sort of threads pull in the most views. Why should people have the patience to look at a question rationally and try to work out what's really going on, when they can get such a buzz from throwing stones at an enemy from their entrenched positions?

rareboy · Jun 18, 2023

Enjoy....

After 100 days of record temperatures, the whole of the North Atlantic Ocean reached an average temperature of 23°C yesterday, ten days earlier than ever before.

Peloso · Jun 18, 2023

New climate change effect: more shark attacks.

Actual sharknados can't be too far behind.

cityboy-stl · Jun 18, 2023

The amount CO2 in the atmosphere has risen orders of magnitude higher in 70 years, than it ever has in the previous 800,000 years!

That does not just happen by natural variations of climate.

Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?

The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia.

climate.nasa.gov

But if you want to believe a Youtube video has more credibility than literally the best scientists and researchers in the world, fine, that's up to you.

USEDCAR · Jun 19, 2023

Its hard to take climate change seriously when they ban bags and straws yet they are tearing up woods to built housing developments and shopping centers. This town in south jersey the residents is fighting like hell because they want to tear the woods up and built a warehouse the size of a few football fields.

We also have the wind mills that they believe is killing off sea animals.

rareboy · Jun 19, 2023

Sprawl is one of the reasons that we are doomed.

HoodedRat · Jun 19, 2023

Some Americans take climate change very seriously. There are loads of Hollywood "celebrities" who repeatedly fly all over the (Western) world in their private jets to harangue us about reducing our carbon footprints.

cityboy-stl · Jun 19, 2023

None of that shit makes Climate Change not real! God Damn It.

rareboy · Jun 19, 2023

What it does though is make millions of other people think 'Fuck it'.

If they can do it, so can I. So the logic goes.

Nothing will change climate change, but 99% of people don't care or if they say they do, they still keep consuming and using energy like there's no tomorrow.

When my great nephews are old enough, I want them to understand that we planted tens of thousands of trees, giving up 50% of our farmland for this, to try to offset the imprint we make. And why our farm is organic. And why we don't have a second house, or big boats or any other toys.

That we recycle 95% or more of all waste. And have the most energy efficient HVAC that we can.

That we have largely ceased to travel for biz or for pleasure where we can do the first by ZOOM and the latter by staying home and enjoying where we are.

This year, I have expressed how excited we are to reintroduce beehives and to rethink all our gardens and lawns to suit them and they are already fascinated by the bees.

But I also want them to understand how we have been hypocritical and where we have indulged ourselves so that they hopefully also feel guilt for their utterly first world entitled lifestyle. We're no saints. And I am not going to preach.

Because humans are doomed. And it serves us right. We just need to buy enough time just in case there is a better generation out there.

Although, I don't think there will be.

metta · Jul 25, 2023

Gulf stream could collapse between 2025 and 2095, study suggests

"A collapse of Amoc would have disastrous consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and west Africa. It would increase storms and drop temperatures in Europe, and lead to a rising sea level on the eastern coast of North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests