Climate Change
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- drgs1
The average temperature probably hasn't changed much (?), the problem is that the weather is less stable compared to the previous decades, there is more deviation, more violent spikes in both direction
If 2022 is similar to 2019, there should be 20 C in the following weeks
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/479…
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https://weatherspark.com/h/y/450…Oslo has been comfortably cool this year
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/686…- In winter 2021 Madrid had half a meter of snow, this year it was around 16c and sunny. Now it’s been around 40c for almost two weeks.Chimp
- yuekit2
This is Why We Should Stop Calling it Climate Change
https://eand.co/this-is-why-we-s…
How many people knew this? The term "climate change" is actually the invention of a Republican political consultant (you could say propagandist), Frank Luntz.
Luntz was big on pointing out how the choice of words can influence public opinion. He invented the term "death tax" to replace inheritance tax, "off-shore exploration" instead of oil drilling. This is the memo he originally sent to George Bush back in the early 2000s:
"Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favor of 'climate change'."
Apparently Luntz now regrets all of this and says he's no longer a Republican...but two decades later everyone is still saying the more neutral-sounding climate change instead of global warming.
- "Drill Baby Drill...Let's Go Brandon!"utopian
- All my liberal, well-educated intellectual friends supported this change in language at the time. Not knowing they were being dupednb
- They told me “you shouldn’t say global warming because it implies that if we have a slight drop one year then we don’t have to worry. Say ‘climate change’ ”nb
- Someone probably told them that the term global warming was racist.Chimp
- All marketing. There will surely be an article like and how FB, 'the big lie', etc., was promoted and marketed.formed
- While the D's continue to come up with stupid titles like "defund the police."formed
- Yeah but on the flip side it’s going to be a banner year for my tomatoes!_niko
- I cringe every time I hear “The Big Lie”. They need to hire this guy to come up with something a little more zingier.instrmntl
- Nobody really cared what it’s called. Some simply wanted to address the problem and some chose to ignore it.monospaced
- "Treason and Traitor" would have been a good term to start using.formed
- That's the thing Democrats titles are made by the activist while Republicans have lobbyist.pango
- an idiot says that the DNC coined the phrase "defund the police" to detract from the fact that police are military prepared to murder you without consequence.imbecile
- but yeah, blame democrats because police murder US citizens constantly, fucking idiotimbecile
- only a dimwit of incredible proportions assumes that only the party he/she doesnt like is doing this sort of PR.pr2
- and only even bigger dimwit belives a complex issue like changing climate is settled only because its hot outside in his part of the world.pr2
- neverscared2
- Nostradama?uan
- bitcoin co2 emissions.neverscared
- france makes electricity with atomic power.uan
- grafician-3
"EU votes to ban production of combustion engines for new cars by 2035 - AFP"
- shapesalad-1
- Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear.Nairn
- Yup, nuclear is the wayGnash
- Do i need to watch the video to understand why solar's apparently not suitable across huge swathes of the earth?Nairn
- The carbon cost to manufacture a solar panel - and run it, in say UK - is not carbon neutral, it;s pointless. It's not eco. Hence why it's only suitableshapesalad
- for really really really sunny areas.shapesalad
- And those areas near people. else it's pointless.shapesalad
- Just put the video on in the background when you're working, instead of listening to that K-pop Boyband stuff you love listening too.shapesalad
- Much of this video so far (I'm over half way through) is wrong. He raises some interesting points, but has a very ..er.. particular, perspective.Nairn
- I'm very pro-nuclear (lol at me on a design forum), but he entirely misrepresents solar in his thinking.Nairn
- ie. for a start - if you're making solar plants in a place that uses renewables or low carbon, it 'doesn't matter' what the energy equation is.Nairn
- VERY GOOD LECTUREpr2
- utopian0
- We're fucked. We have totally fucked the earth up since the birth the oil industry.shapesalad
- just to be antagonistic, this also shows why switching to veganism won't help if your veg come from the wrong process...MrT
- grafician0
- Use of fossil fuels by the public, eg car drive is minimal. Industry is the biggest user of fossil fuels. What we could do is stop going on cruises.shapesalad
- International shipping makes the $ number on a price tag different.nb
- We’ll destroy the planet so that we can have a Dollar Store instead of a Three Dollar Storenb
- We’ve destroyed the planet so that a random product might cost one of our imaginary dollars instead of two imaginary dollarsnb
- shapesalad0
- this video is exactly why it's best to listen to scientists and experts, not YouTubers who cherry pick for their own biasesinteliboy
- PhanLo1
California started burning early this year
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- utopian0
Despite by 30% duties/tariffs on imported solar technology imposed by then-President Donald Trump...
....The United States electricity sector reached an important milestone in April, when wind and solar energy accounted for 20% of electricity generation for the first time in history,
- grafician-4
- So the needs for rare earth minerals will shape the map of the world yet again in the next few decades
Crazy timesgrafician - you can't mine all that stuff on renewables, you need mostly diesel to get it out the ground.shapesalad
- So the needs for rare earth minerals will shape the map of the world yet again in the next few decades
- grafician-1
"California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3"
https://www.solarpowerworldonlin…
Giving that if Cali would be a country it would be the 5th largest economy, this is good news...
- the thing with renewables is not power generation, but intermittent power and excess energy storage
Transition to 100% renewable would need to fix these issuesgrafician
- the thing with renewables is not power generation, but intermittent power and excess energy storage