And the next administration shrugs.
“Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse, among other climate tipping points
A new report describes the dire state of Earth’s snow and ice, suggesting several major tipping points are likelier than scientists once thought.” #ClimateCrisis
nbcnews.com/science/climate-ch…
A key Atlantic current could collapse, scientists warn
A report describes the dire state of Earth’s snow and ice, suggesting that several major climate tipping points are more likely to be reached than previously thought.Evan Bush (NBC News)
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •HarriettMB
in reply to Laffy • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to HarriettMB • • •@HarriettMB @ZLabe
The last time the AMOC (Atlantic Meridionial Overturning Circulation) or Gulf Stream, was disrupted, it triggered an Ice Age and mass extinctions.
vox.com/climate/24099459/amoc-…
The fossil fuel industry bought a US election to thwart climate action and a fossil fuel phase out.
livescience.com/planet-earth/r…
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/clima…
sustainability.stanford.edu/ne…
Mass climate migrations when the AMOC stops.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0905…
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Are we breaking the Atlantic Ocean?
Brian Resnick (Vox)bituur esztreym
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •AMOC or amok; simple dilemma it should be
jmccabe
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @HarriettMB @ZLabe
But corporate profits are GREAT!!
😂 😡 🤦
Nicole Parsons
in reply to jmccabe • • •@jmccabe @HarriettMB @ZLabe
The human race can take pride that they permitted a few billionaires to manufacture an uninhabitable planet while maximizing shareholder value, as they risk an extinction level event for all species.
"Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
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David Penington
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •It's an ethical decision.
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Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @HarriettMB @ZLabe
When really bad stuff happens, people need to organize militias to go after the billionaires, wherever they hide!
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 • • •@lednaBM @HarriettMB @ZLabe
Eliminating the billionaire doesn't eliminate the money & power dynamics they set into operation.
They have nonprofits replete with cash to finish what they started for the next 50 years.
Bradley passed away in 1965. The cash he put into the Bradley Foundation has been plugging away at disenfranchisement schemes for 60 years and shows no sign of abatement.
Now imagine AI managing that money for Koch's $5 billion...
forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/202…
Exclusive: Charles Koch Has Given More Than $5 Billion Of His Stock To Two Nonprofits
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Pollinators
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in reply to Pollinators • • •The solutions to megalomaniac billionaires are as complex as the processes that created them.
Complex problems usually require complex solutions.
Wealth taxes. Windfall taxes. Antitrust. Global minimum tax treaties. Fossil fuel phase out. Financial regulation. Inheritance taxes. Ethics standards for the Supreme Court.
But most of all it takes an electorate interested in democracy and saving the planet from climate change.
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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
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It’s the punishment Cult, Punishment is the opposite idea from evolution, and it makes everyone worse, apparently on purpose because how can a whole world not see it?
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Nicole Parsons
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I've never understood why folks tolerate the self-appointed punitiveness of conservatives.
The right wing aren't a judge, jury, & executioner but people accept that arrogance anyway.
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Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
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trained by their spanking, I swear. A majority are altered by it.
🤖 Lazaro el dog
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @Pollinators
That final requirement seems the hardest to accomplish in light of the recent elections in the US.
Billionaires and tech bros have unlimited resources and advanced technologies to micro target for brainwashing any portion of the electorate.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to 🤖 Lazaro el dog • • •@LazaroDTormes @Npars01 @Pollinators
Technology is an alternative to politics
— Peter Thiel
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •The chances are the complex solution to this complex. Problem will be climate change. These people are methodically inducing and fantasize that they can insulate themselves from the damage caused by extreme weather, render most long-term large scale, development, and investment financially insolvent.
There won’t be there there a supply chain, and the civilization network to function in.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •And I think Slate characterized Charles correctly that he is a messianic figure, intent on rewriting human civilization. He certainly has done so for the United States.
These nonprofits along with much else must be pulled apart, or we get it for free: American society collapses for their cancerous effect to finally end.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @lednaBM @HarriettMB @ZLabe
It is not in money management that AI concerns me, it’s the pervasive surveillance, and military applications, real and dramatically expanding capacity for both of AI thru Peter Thiel’s ventures that is truly terrifying.
Thiel has access to real leverage power in Vance and possibly Vivek.
That man inspires to the evil straight out of Tolkein’s legendarium.
Hippasus500 aka jwn2
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@ZLabe @Npars01 @HarriettMB
The models described in the Mar ‘24 Vox article have variables whose behavior are poorly understood which makes drawing conclusions highly uncertain — and very scary.
The article concludes:
“We need to rule out such a potential future scenario,” Van Westen [Utrecht University] says. “And therefore, very urgent climate action is needed to limit our impact on Earth.”
Human 3500
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in reply to Human 3500 • • •@human3500 @HarriettMB @ZLabe
Florida isn't going to have drinking water in a few years. Their beaches will be gone too.
newsweek.com/florida-map-under…
climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/s…
The economic costs to Florida of not phasing out fossil fuel use...
cfpublic.org/environment/2023-…
The fossil fuel industry funded a fascist movement instead of funding a climate action plan.
commondreams.org/views/2021/01…
thenation.com/article/environm…
versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/new…
Towards Fossil Fascism?
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Human 3500
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SilvertipGrizz
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Miss Gayle
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I believe I read that sea water is already infiltrating the water table there, and it's only going to get worse.
That's why the condo collapsed a couple of years ago, salt water corrosion of the foundation. We're going to see a lot more of that, too.
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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊
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The combination of sleezy corporate interests & politics?