You make that fit on a bumper sticker and I want one.
Does anyone else ever do a Naughty by Nature FUCK THE GOP remix in their heads when reading various headlines? No? Cool, just me then.
100% this. Its why I have become far more absolutist. Republicans want to kill all of us and our children, quite literally.
I will never forgive them.
And now us lilly white straight dudes can begin to grasp what it feels like to be not one of those things!
I think the GOP leadership has moved beyond âitâs not happeningâ now to âitâs so far gone we canât do anything to stop itâ, and are proceeding to loot the system and set up their protected enclaves as best they can. Donât think that the âinvasionâ language is just a backwards-looking dog-whistle; it also looks forward to the generations of refugees and migrants who will be splashing about the world for the next century.
This article seemed more hopeful than most I read:
First of all, in the last 15 years, wind and solar went from extremely expensive green luxury items maintained by subsidy to the cheapest forms of energy ever. That happened because government subsidized wind and solar, made a market for it that companies competed over, and they relentlessly drove the cost down. Itâs a remarkable achievement â that conservatives should relish â of market success, but through government subsidy.
With the direct air capture technologies, 10 years ago you would have said thatâs just like a fairy tale. But because of diligent activity by a small number of technical people, thereâs been very rapid progress, so much so that knowledgeable people who are not starry-eyed, but just hard-headed, believe that there is a very high probability that a research effort within 10 years would produce direct air capture at less than a dollar a gallon of gasoline. Thatâs $100 a ton [of captured CO2].
I didnât know carbon capture was already happening on this scale:
Carbon capture and storage has gone from, âWell, maybe itâs possible to do,â to a big business. Sixty-one million tons of CO2 are going into reservoirs and staying there this year in the Lower 48 [U.S. states] alone. Thatâs a big number.
Some good news in the right direction:
Not directly climate change related, but the same economic arguments that justify pollutants often lead to overriding environmental concerns over dredging. Which, as the article says, can lead to significantly higher flooding and storm surge issues. Combine with more extreme weather events from climate change, and you have some very wet futures for a lot of coastal and riverside areas.
Where would this go? Qatar wasnât a huge oil producer, but this isnât good visibility for OPEC.
You got to love really old people who actually care about the future after theyâre gone. If only there were more of them.
David Attenborough rules.
Have some more Krugman climate dudgeon:
There are three important morals to this story.
First, if we fail to meet the challenge of climate change, with catastrophic results â which seems all too likely â it wonât be the result of an innocent failure to understand what was at stake. It will, instead, be a disaster brought on by corruption, willful ignorance, conspiracy theorizing and intimidation.
Second, that corruption isnât a problem of âpoliticiansâ or the âpolitical system.â Itâs specifically a problem of the Republican Party, which has burrowed ever deeper into climate denial even as the damage from a warming planet becomes more and more obvious.
Third, we can now see climate denial as part of a broader moral rot. Donald Trump isnât an aberration, heâs the culmination of where his party has been going for years. You could say that Trumpism is just the application of the depravity of climate denial to every aspect of politics. And thereâs no end to the depravity in sight.
The Baltic Sea offers a preview of whatâs to come with global warming
https://wapo.st/2FRdMmD
Shrinking populations of fish that traditionally live in those waters, and migration of species that like warmer seas. We may see this in larger bodies of water in the near future.
Thanks for the link. I read through it and at the end thought âhmm, I should post this on the Qt3 threadâ, I must be getting too old.
Gilded Age 2.0, only hotter
I mean people learn your history. The Gilded age ended peacefully, relatively, because the working class was allowed gains. Had the wealthy of the day behaved as the wealthy of our day? Guillotines. Thatâs where that ends.
You can only turn the screws so tight.
Thing is⌠the wealthy are dumber now and donât think the working class will do it.
History says otherwise.
Zombies can totally get over that wall. Just sayinâ.
I keep saying that the basic social problem is that not enough lampposts have been put to their appropriate use.