Tim_N
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Well, just to give an update, the conservative party won the election against all odds which means at least three more years of climate inaction and more deforestation/overfishing/coal mines/etc… It’s a very depressing day.
Talk about a gut punch. I read Queensland and Tasmania are the culprits - with similar demographics to the American Rustbelt, that’s a scary prospect for our 2020 elections.
Yeah, I’m in a “fuck everything” mood right now. Especially “fuck Queensland”. Yet another demonstration of the power of the Murdoch media and the coal / oil lobby, and propped up by dodgy political deals to get the Coalition back in power despite the odds. They waged a huge misinformation / fear campaign about the opposition leader, leading to a similar Hilary / Trump scenario where people refused to vote for the sensible candidate because they disliked them so much, even though I’d wager most of them don’t really know why.
In fairness, Shorten screwed this up big time, and he’s never been a strong leader. Ex-PM Bob Hawke passing away the other day was a reminder of how utterly shit most politicians are these days. The Greens were also dropped like a hot potato (again, $80 million of misinformation will have that effect, with QLD politicians painting any Greens supporters as grass tea drinking hippies and “young women” (seriously)). Now we have to endure three more years of corruption, bullshit, jobs for the boys, environmental terrorism and thug politics.
The world certainly isn’t finished fucking things up yet.
Lab testing only, but this could be really, really bad.
I like that label. The Climate Destroyers. It feels more truthy than Climate Deniers.
Wow, Goser had kind of a Grace Jones/Annie Lennox thing going on.
My existential climate dread is off the charts today.
Here’s a fun scenario. It’s entirely possible that at some point in the next ten years crops will start failing. If that happens, society collapses quickly. If society collapses, we stop burning sulfates. If we stop burning sulfates, the dimming effect goes away within a year and the temperature spikes to extinction levels really, really quickly. Bunker people survive for a decade or two but, with their exception, the human race could be extinct within the next ten years.
Anyway, it will pass and I’ll go back to loving the every loving shit out of everything we have while we still have it but tonight I’m in fuuuuuuccckkkk mode.
As an antidote to my previous post, here is a picture of my dog who got his hair cut and was very excited to see me when I got home from work today.
I don’t think crops will magically start failing in countries like the US for quite some time. For that matter small increases in CO2 are beneficial to many plants, though of course increasingly severe weather can cause more local losses.
However, there’s a vast catastrophe looming in India that doesn’t even require global warming to come true, though no doubt it makes things worse. The “Indian Miracle” that has increased their farm productivity to keep up with their population is based on American agricultural methods that require enormous amounts of water. Unfortunately, their aquifers are drying up due to massive overutilization. So far as I know there’s no serious plan to change over to alternative methods.
Tim_N
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September 20, let’s get out there:
Scuzz
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So Central California had the coldest May 26th on record yesterday, by a full 10 degrees. I actually had a fire in the fireplace. A high of 58, norm of 87. It has been a strange year weatherwise, as we are inches beyond normal May rainfall and above average for the year. And they are still getting snow in the mountains east of me, as low as 4,000 feet.
Several record high temps recorded here in central NC over the last few days. Yesterday’s high was 94F, which was the same as the high in Death Valley, except the dew point here was 75.
