Climate Change

[MartyFunkhouser]

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[Rorschach]

Ice balls? Is there another name for that?

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

Ice balls? Is there another name for that?

Meth?

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

Microplastics discovered in Antarctica - British Antarctic Survey

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica’s deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching plastic pollution has become.

www.bas.ac.uk

 

[Rorschach]

Brilliant.

Is there anyone who can seriously deny climate change anymore? I mean, I know some hung on for a while, but now?

There is still a fair portion of folk who think it is just the natural cycle of the Earth cooling and heating - i.e. not caused by humans. This is one of the FF industry attack vectors on renewables, and it sounds a reasonably plausible explanation to some, if you are primed for that argument. And billions have been spent targeting folks with this misinformation, priming them for this argument, so it is not suprising some of it sticks.

Someone in my own family gave me this same argument there at some get-together. Normally I wouldn't bother trying to convince them of their mistake, it is rarely worth the effort, but I just consumed the right amount of wine to overcome my better judgment. I gave them the science behind it - Earth should be heading into an ice age (Milankovich cycles), etc... and bingo. They changed their minds for the most part. So, feeling confident I decided to apply the coup de grace and explain the fossil fuel industry misinformation campaign and how this one industry that doesn't want the manmade argument to be true openly admit it is true. So I was mildly chuffed with this outcome. I talked to the same family member then a couple of months later, and he was back to his original position of denial.

 

[Lilbaz]

Ice balls? Is there another name for that?

Frosty nads?

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

There is still a fair portion of folk who think it is just the natural cycle of the Earth cooling and heating - i.e. not caused by humans. This is one of the FF industry attack vectors on renewables, and it sounds a reasonably plausible explanation to some, if you are primed for that argument. And billions have been spent targeting folks with this misinformation, priming them for this argument, so it is not suprising some of it sticks.

Someone in my own family gave me this same argument there at some get-together. Normally I wouldn't bother trying to convince them of their mistake, it is rarely worth the effort, but I just consumed the right amount of wine to overcome my better judgment. I gave them the science behind it - Earth should be heading into an ice age (Milankovich cycles), etc... and bingo. They changed their minds for the most part. So, feeling confident I decided to apply the coup de grace and explain the fossil fuel industry misinformation campaign and how this one industry that doesn't want the manmade argument to be true openly admit it is true. So I was mildly chuffed with this outcome. I talked to the same family member then a couple of months later, and he was back to his original position of denial.

'Chuffed' with the outcome, but ultimately a waste of time?