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Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by triceratops »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #8
ThisIsNowhere wrote: post #6

Well the US Supreme Court said last year that any new Environmental Protection Agency regulation is invalid on creation, so there's that.

It’s supposed to be Congress’ job to do something, but unfortunately they appear to be useless.

Open your eyes to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, SCOTUS kicked it back to Congress purely because Congress is useless and won't do anything.

Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by _Microft »

replygirl wrote: post #10
jlengrand wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be news everywhere each and every day until we do enough about it so it isn't any more IMHO

the boy who cried wolf is about that

You're mistaken there: "The boy who cried wolf" is about lying about there being a wolf while it isn't, not about speaking the truth but nobody wanting to listen.

Edit: check for yourself if you like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by HelloMcFly »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #8
ThisIsNowhere wrote: post #6

Well the US Supreme Court said last year that any new Environmental Protection Agency regulation is invalid on creation, so there's that.

It’s supposed to be Congress’ job to do something, but unfortunately they appear to be useless.

Except in this instance, the conservative justices completely abandoned their "textualism" argument given the law in question was written by Congress to do precisely what they disallowed. And no, I don't want to hear that "well clearly not since they ruled against it."

To be clear: I'm talking about their redefinition of the word "adjacent". Forgive me if I'm not following the thread correctly here. Justice Alito seems to think adjacent means "navigable waters" instead of "these waters are literally connected to each other even if not above ground".

Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by pookah »

triceratops wrote: post #11
amanaplanacanal wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s supposed to be Congress’ job to do something, but unfortunately they appear to be useless.

Open your eyes to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, SCOTUS kicked it back to Congress purely because Congress is useless and won't do anything.

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Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by aaomidi »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #8
ThisIsNowhere wrote: post #6

Well the US Supreme Court said last year that any new Environmental Protection Agency regulation is invalid on creation, so there's that.

It’s supposed to be Congress’ job to do something, but unfortunately they appear to be useless.

Funny how this claim can be made when they pull shit like this but not when they legislate from the bench for the right.

Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by ars »

jlengrand wrote: post #3
yodsanklai wrote: post #2

Such records are going to get broken pretty much every year. Shouldn't really be "news".

It should be news everywhere each and every day until we do enough about it so it isn't any more IMHO

That's a great way to make everyone ignore it. Calling it a "crisis" does the same thing, the first time you hear crisis you get worried, then you realize it's a very very slow moving thing and you start ignoring them.

Being alarmist helps no one.

Just be factual about it, it's not the news media's job to rile people up or get them to take some kind of action.

Re: Monday was hottest day for global average temperature, as climate crisis bites

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Post by jlengrand »

_Microft wrote: post #13
replygirl wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the boy who cried wolf is about that

You're mistaken there: "The boy who cried wolf" is about lying about there being a wolf while it isn't, not about speaking the truth but nobody wanting to listen. Edit: check for yourself if you like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

I'm half wondering if commenter implies that the wolf doesn't exist indeed...
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