Methinks Coke Jr is actually Meth Jr

[Nevilledog]

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Junior tonight says he read somewhere that Leftists want a nuclear war because it will help solve global warming.


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6:14 PM · Oct 6, 2022

[onecaliberal]

1. I've long thought that.

[Nevilledog]

3. With a side of bath salts

[GoCubsGo]

8. I'm thinking he got into his dad's Adderall stash.

Or, the European Sudafed.

[Tickle]

22. European Sudafed?

What makes it different or are you kidding 😂

[GoCubsGo]

23. The stuff sold in the UK and Ireland has a slightly different formulation.

Apparently, it's more of a stimulant than the stuff sold here. Some of the staff members on "The Apprentice" said he ate it like candy, when he wasn't snorting Adderall.

[onecaliberal]

15. and just enough lysol or bleach to "clean it right out"

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. A spaceship full of aliens needs to come and save the planet and do what they will

with us.

We have proven we have no business at all being on this beautiful planet.

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[lame54]

4. Somewhere - they're a solid source

[Grokenstein]

19. "Somewhere" might be Futurama

[dflprincess]

5. The most shocking thing in this video

is that junior claims he read something.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. This is NOT normal behavior.

Jr. is clearly on something addictive.

[Blue Owl]

7. Jankin' and skankin'

[Celerity]

9. he is so full of shit

On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem

Even a “minor” skirmish would wreck the planet.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/nuclear-war-would-ravage-the-planets-climate/627005/

https://archive.ph/XaihV



When we talk about what causes climate change, we usually talk about oil and gas, coal and cars, and—just generally—energy policy. There’s a good reason for this. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, which enters the atmosphere, warms the climate, and … you know the drill. The more fossil fuels you burn, the worse climate change gets. That’s why, a couple of years ago, I spent a lot of time covering the Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the country’s fuel-economy standards. It was an awful policy, one that would have led to more oil consumption for decades to come. If pressed, I would have said that it had a single-digit-percentage chance of creating an uninhabitable climate system.

But energy is not the only domain that has a direct bearing on whether we have a livable climate or not. So does foreign policy—specifically, nuclear war. Since Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago, that threat has become a lot more real: Many Americans, including artists, climate-concerned progressives, and even a few lawmakers, have come out in support of a “no-fly zone.” But despite its euphemistic name, a no-fly zone means that NATO and the United States issue a credible threat that they will shoot down any enemy plane in Ukrainian territory. This Link to tweet
" target="_blank">would require U.S. bombing runs into Russian territory to eliminate air defenses, bringing the U.S. and Russia into open war, and it would have a reasonable chance of prompting a nuclear exchange. And it would be worse for the climate than any energy policy that Donald Trump ever proposed.

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I mean this quite literally. If you are worried about rapid, catastrophic changes to the planet’s climate, then you must be worried about nuclear war. That is because, on top of killing tens of millions of people, even a relatively “minor” exchange of nuclear weapons would wreck the planet’s climate in enormous and long-lasting ways.

Consider a one-megaton nuke, reportedly the size of a warhead on a modern Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. (Warheads on U.S. ICBMs can be even larger.) A detonation of a bomb that size would, within about a four-mile radius, produce winds equal to those in a Category 5 hurricane, immediately flattening buildings, knocking down power lines, and triggering gas leaks. Anyone within seven miles of the detonation would suffer third-degree burns, the kind that sear and blister flesh. These conditions—and note that I have left out the organ-destroying effects of radiation—would rapidly turn an eight-mile blast radius into a zone of total human misery. But only at this moment of the war do the climate consequences truly begin.

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[yonder]

10. Cranking it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Idiocracy, personified. nt

[purr-rat beauty]

12. I'm guessing he's getting it all in before....

....he's put away

[Marcuse]

13. Someone smarter than Junior told him nuclear winter would solve global warming. It won't.

Normally, science is at its best when we can run a real experiment and measure the results, rather than simply relying on models. In the words of Grace Hopper, “One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.” Unfortunately, short of creating gigantic firestorms with nuclear weapons, such experimentation is out of the question.

Following the models, within a decade or two, any cooling effect from lofted soot would likely have passed, while humanity would be left with huge swathes of burned-out areas for its trouble and likely a not-negligible contribution to CO2 levels from the multiple firestorms. Along the way, if the effect was overdone, excess cooling would still cause trouble for agriculture which could lead to widespread starvation.

The answer to the question of which catastrophe would win out is: short term, nuclear winter; long term, global warming.

https://hackaday.com/2022/01/25/would-nuclear-winter-cancel-out-global-warming/

[jmowreader]

14. Junior is proof positive...

...that having no brain whatsoever is not necessarily a life-threatening condition.

[tblue37]

16. His finger quotes get more and more frantic.

[2naSalit]

18. I think he blends the two.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Your mind might think its flying, baby on those little pills but you ought to know it's dying,

[keep_left]

21. Well, he's gonna be Dead Jr if he doesn't start laying off the blow...

...or whatever else he might be using. Don Jr also looks like he's aging badly, which isn't too surprising since he's been burning the candle at both ends for a long time now.