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There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

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Re: There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

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I’m to fried to read it today. Is it based on actual science? I mean people measuring natural phenomena and not just fantasizing about it?

No, it's crap written by a clueless arse who doesn't know any physics but is trying to handwave over it with philosophical pretention.

Re: There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

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Then there is this: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66256101 >in fact I'm very pessimistic about achieving even 2C In the US, the GOP refused to do anything and held the US hostage so they could cash in by taking bribes from the fossil fuel industry. The other party was too afraid to stand up to the GOP and fossil fuel industry, so nothing at all was done except talk. All the hot air from the pols taking…

Like the boiled frog, perhaps we have not even realized that we are already cooked/doomed.

Re: There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

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Then there is this: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66256101 >in fact I'm very pessimistic about achieving even 2C In the US, the GOP refused to do anything and held the US hostage so they could cash in by taking bribes from the fossil fuel industry. The other party was too afraid to stand up to the GOP and fossil fuel industry, so nothing at all was done except talk. All the hot air from the pols taking…

It’s not the GOP, its an entire economic system, defended at nuclear gunpoint, by the one of the world’s largest carbon emitters, who both parties reward with ever-expanding, fraud-ridden budgets, while their citizens starve and die on the streets, go bankrupt from illnesses, etc.

I’m sorry to tell you, but there is no one in the halls of US power steering the ship away from the worst outcomes of climate change because the entire thing is bought and sold by the people profiting from it.

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