When a NASA climate scientist is sounding the alarm....

[Nevilledog]

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I wish everyone on Earth knew how genuinely "off the charts" key planetary trends are right now, and how abnormal and critical it is. Things like atmospheric CO2 fraction, heat extremes on land and ocean, biodiversity loss and extinction rates. All alarms should be going off
10:20 AM · Jul 15, 2022

[SalviaBlue]

1. Fuck

[TreasonousBastard]

2. The troglodytes don't listen to him, either.

[c-rational]

3. Ugh, I sure see it...do not want to admit that we could yet still avert the worst. Alarms needed

indeed.

[merrifield]

4. No kidding. . .

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

[Hekate]

5. Don't Look Up

[Nevilledog]

8. Don't Look Anywhere, the sequel

[uponit7771]

42. +1,

[edhopper]

6. Joe Manchin

Doesn't give a shit.

[FoxNewsSucks]

21. Thank you.

Needs to be said more often, by more people.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Too many have been persuaded that we have time to correct it all without major lifestyle and

economic changes. COVID opened a few eyes by showing we all don't need to live the whole house and 2 cars in the suburbs and endless debt regime. But far too many still expect to live that advertiser's magic dream, or a variation.

[ramapo]

9. No body bags in our neighborhoods

Day-to-day life goes on. People thing, "It'll be ok", "Earth wouldn't do that to us", "Not my problem", etc.

Like Covid, once the body bags didn't pile up, life could go on.

I fear we're heading to a place that we don't want to be

[peppertree]

10. "The hell you say! You's just trying to take mah truck and mah hamberders!"

"And mah guns!"

[NullTuples]

11. So many people don't realize how fragile farming actually is

First sign of the climate entering a chaotic state will be when crops fail on an increasingly larger scale. Not completely, but yields and quality will reduce. Prices will go up, quality will go down. Then entire plantings will fail. But not everywhere at once. So food prices will go way up. Produce first since it's quickest to market, then meat and manufactured products like bread, pasta and so on.

The key to feeding as many people as modern farms do is predictable weather. We are losing that predictability, right now.

[FoxNewsSucks]

22. Doesn't matter.

The billionaires will still get their food.

Just like China got the output of American meat packing plants (which they own) in 2020 while we looked at empty grocery store shelves.

So there's no need to worry, the rich will be OK.

For a while.

[NullTuples]

24. For the rest of their lives, at least for the current ones in control. 20 years, maybe.

[James48]

32. Eat the rich.

Tastes like chicken.

[BOSSHOG]

12. But Peter

Republicans can’t profit from your nonsense. Think of the children for god sake. The children Of conservatives.

[FoxNewsSucks]

23. They don't "think of the children"

Not even their own.

[NullTuples]

25. What happens to their children is God's Will.

[JoeOtterbein]

13. K n R with...

...tears.

[RussBLib]

14. hard to find any good news nt

[Nevilledog]

15. I'm sorry.

[Nevilledog]

40. Here ya go!

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CNN
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This startup says it's genetically modified hybrid poplar trees to grow faster so they'll absorb more carbon dioxide and help minimize the damage of climate change

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This supercharged tree might help fight climate change | CNN Business
The problem with trees is that they are too slow.
10:01 PM · Jul 15, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/15/business/living-carbon-gene-edit-trees/index.html

[uponit7771]

43. +1,

[Ron Green]

16. And Biden's in Saudi Arabia begging for more and cheaper

gasoline.

Godamighty.

[Jazz Jon]

17. Mass Media

The word does not get out because mass media does not let it. The big TV media companies actively suppress facts about climate change. The TV "weathermen" are not allowed to call attention to patterns of extreme heat or drought. What they can say is "lots and lots of wonderful sunshine this week". Big corporations are afraid they will not make maximum profits if the have to change their businesses in order to avert climate change.

Likewise for campaign funding. Politicians that tell the truth about climate change lose corporate donors, and so the facts are suppressed again.

What I don't get is what planet the big money bosses think they are going to live on.

Possibly some are motivated by the devil to wreak havoc.

Others, like Joe Manchin I think, really are as dumb as donkeys. His very small brain cannot learn about climate change nor its causes and mechanisms. He can't learn that any more than a cat can learn to speak English.

So what's the solution?? It would involve getting the big money players to have a change in motivation.

[Nevilledog]

20. Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunkers/index.html



Just picked a random article on this.... There are tons more

[Kaleva]

39. I don't see a sense of urgency here at DU

Rare is the post of a DUer talking about moving out of an area predicted to be hard hit by climate change to a location predicted to be less hard hit like the upper Great Lakes region and parts of the Appalachians.

[Orrex]

18. The only thing that can save us now is a massive tax cut for the wealthy

Followed by an aggressive campaign of corporate deregulation.

OTHERWISE WE'RE DOOMED!!!!!1!!!

[FoxNewsSucks]

26. Yep.

Tax cuts and welfare for the rich will solve everything.

Give them all the money

[HelpImSurrounded]

19. Nobody listened 50 years ago...

Nobody listened 75 years ago...

Nobody listened 100 years ago...

Why is this surprising in any way?

[roamer65]

27. Two things I am thankful for nowadays.

1. I don’t have children.
2. I have more years behind me than in front of me.

The human race deserves what is coming for its hubristic ways.

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. Same here,

and I didn't used to think that way.

The future is indeed bleak.

[BigmanPigman]

28. I said out loud today,

after seeing that London is 104°, "We are living in Climate Change right now. This is what we've been warned about".

[purr-rat beauty]

29. Those of us who believe in science do

....those who believe in fairy tales do not

[Ilsa]

31. Higher CO2 means more urushiol in poison ivy.

The concentration of the active substance in poison ivy increases substantially. I might need an epi-pen next time I get exposed. My immune system already grossly overreacts.

[mountain grammy]

33. It's a terrible thing to ignore this crisis.

[Lettuce Be]

34. We are living a disaster movie while Rs are plugging their ears & saying la la la la la la la la

I literally cannot think of anything else to say

[Kaleva]

38. I spend quite some time working to adapt to the coming cslamity

From reading here, I get the sense that there are only a few DUers doing likewise.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. Earth temperature timeline ...

You'll have to scroll for a while, but it's worth it. (Far too long to post the actual image on DU).

https://xkcd.com/1732/

[budkin]

36. Joe Manchin says...

“I don’t give a fuck.”

[Kaleva]

37. This alone should encourage young voters to go to the polls

To vote for the only party that has a plan for preventing climate change from reaching worst case scenario.

[Calculating]

41. On climate we do seem to be pretty screwed

All everyone cares about lately is the high gas prices and how we need to drill baby drill again.