#Climate Change Deniers

[odinsblog]

Whether you call it climate change or pollution, it’s still a series of policy decisions (deregulation). Deregulation that is disproportionately upheld by greedy corporations, red state Democrats, and is enforced overwhelmingly by Republican and Libertarian controlled legislatures.

(sources and other relevant links beneath the cut)

👉🏿 https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-smoke-east-air-quality

👉🏿 https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-david-wallace-wells

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1666541345069219840.html

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648986424098652160.html

[contemplatingoutlander]

Interesting proposal by Nate Loewentheil in a guest column in The New York Times. Not only was his proposal thought provoking, but two of the comments regarding it by readers were also worth contemplating. Below are some excerpts from the column, followed by the two comments.

Here is a proposal for the environmental movement: Pool philanthropic funds for a day, buy a small plot of land in Washington, D.C., and put up a tall marble wall to serve as a climate memorial. Carve on this memorial the names of public figures actively denying the existence of climate change. Carve the names so deep and large, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren need not search the archives. This is not a metaphor. The problem with climate change is the disconnect between action and impact. If politicians vote against construction standards and a school collapses, the next election will be their last. But with climate change, cause and effect are at a vast distance. We are already seeing the consequences of our past and present greenhouse gas emissions. In coming decades, those emissions will wreak their full havoc on the climate, and it will take hundreds, possibly thousands, of years for those pollutants to fully dissipate. But in the short term, the most immediate burdens are borne mostly by the poor in America and distant people in distant lands. Misaligned incentives are at the heart of why some political and business leaders deny and delay. [...] I would first nominate those who have sown confusion over climate science, like Myron Ebell, who recently retired as director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, where he sought to block climate change efforts in Congress, and served as the head of Donald Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Ebell has argued that the idea that climate change is “an existential threat or even crisis is preposterous.” Then there are lawmakers who have consistently stood in the way of federal action, like the recently retired senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the author of the book “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.” [color emphasis added]

Below is the first thought provoking comment to this article:

There is, in Iceland, a memorial to a dead glacier - the Ok Glacier. It reads: "Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it." [color emphasis added] --Chris D., Colorado

Photo of the plaque at the at the Okjökull (OK Glacier) memorial.

Here is the second thought provoking comment to this article:

For reference this graph https://i.redd.it/ljifc828iui31.jpg is from the Exxon internal scientific report on climate change, 1982, produced by scientists working for that fossil fuel corporation. Look at what their graph predicted for 2020. Approaching 420 ppm CO2 and a rise of 1.2 C degrees above pre-industrial temperature - very close to what we actually got in 2020. Then look at what the graph shows for later this century, based on not reducing emissions. Very serious temperature rises, that could make agriculture very difficult in many countries. Yes, and then Exxon, having seen this, got involved in PR campaigns to "cast doubt" on climate science, to protect their assets. [color emphasis added] --Erik Frederiksen, Ashville, NC

1982 Exxon graph depicting average global temperature increases over time correlating with increases in atmospheric CO2. NOTE: Graph color was modified for greater clarity.

Fossil fuel companies like Exxon, and fossil fuel oligarchs like the Koch brothers should be included in any "Climate Wall of Shame."

[petula-xx]

Helene

I've been following the aftermath of hurricane Helene. The scale of the destruction really is difficult to fathom. A horrible price to pay for a single weather event.

A question for folks in the USA. Post Helene what's the climate change dialogue there right now? Are the deniers still denying or is the tide starting to turn?

[odinsblog]

[wolfspaw]

This is just dumb....

Project 2025 is all about hardcore climate deniers who wish to erase all evidence of climate change to protect the fossil fuel industry. If you believe Trump over science you really do need to have your head examined.

[filosofablogger]

Burying Our Heads In The Sand

I don’t understand how anyone can still deny that we are destroying the environment here on Planet Earth … all you need to do is open your eyes, watch the weather reports, or step outside and take a deep breath.  But for some reason, there are still those who say that the scientists are all wrong, that climate change is a ‘hoax’, and that we should stay the course drilling for oil, mining for…

[agents-of-behemoth]

Operation Deimos

Operation Deimos keeps track of the Agents of Behemoth: Greed, Avarice, Sloth.

Behemoth is the first of God’s conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword. Job 40:19 (GWT)

If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who made them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship. Proverbs 14:31 (GNT)

Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. Deuteronomy 28:61:-62 (ESV)

Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory. Apocalypse 16:8-9 (BSB)

“And now, you priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me." Malachi 2:1-2 (NIV) 

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming! The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come! Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy. Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.' Ezekiel 7:5-8 (BSB)

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide. Job 34:22 (BSB)

[nando161mando]

"FWIW, CPAC Australia was fronted by the two Indigenous faces of the 'No' to 'The Voice' campaign, sponsored by (among a handful of others) Christian nationalist crowdfunding site Give Send Go (whose two co-founders were speakers at the event last weekend in Sydney) and featured an array of climate change denialists, racists, reactionaries & semi-professional transphobes -- along with the former Australian Prime Minster, Tony Abbott."

via @slackbastard

[odinsblog]

OMG she vaporized him 😬

[mondoreb]

End Times Prophecy Headlines: March 10-12, 2023

End Times Prophecy Report HEADLINES FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY March 10-12, 2023 And OPINION “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” —Matthew 24:4 “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky ===INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE: Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities, cut power to nuclear plant UKRAINE:…

[crazycatsiren]

Keep yourself safe from the heat, be sure to drink water and stay indoors from 10am to October 30th.

[cynicalclassicist]

If only millions of adults didn't disbelieve this because they want to own the libs.

If only people had listened to Al Gore in 2000...

[firethekitty]

footage of the insane greenfield, iowa tornado courtesy of storm chaser reed timmer

[reclusivesapphire]

Octonauts headcanon generator results: in textpost format

this is the one I used if anyone wants it:

[filosofablogger]

Happy Earth Day 2024!!!

This is an updated version of my Earth Day post that I have revised and used every year since 2017.  As my late ex-husband used to say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and this post remains a timely reminder that we still need every year!  Today is Earth Day … the 54th anniversary of Earth Day, to be exact.  Typically, Earth Day is assigned a different theme or area of focus each year and…