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Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by marginalia_nu » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:15 PM UTC

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

Everyone and their mother is running digital influence operations, so the overall media landscape is just extremely noisy right now.

This is an art that has been refined with every election cycle and every major political event since the early 2010s, and it had already gotten dang bad 5-6 years ago[1], and definitely did not get an ounce better once LLMs came along and drove the down the cost of this type of op.

The result is that it's very hard to get any sort of coherent message across.

[1] 'member the absolute clown fiesta surrounding COVID?

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by kreyenborgi » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:15 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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Actually it would matter. Less CO2 would be released. It just wouldn't stop all the CO2 being released - but we don't need nor want to stop it all for it to matter.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by mchaver » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

I assume because the public has been consumed by narratives over data. Narratives have probably always been more powerful than data for us humans, but we now have really powerful tools to generate the narratives we like. Combine that with algorithmic feeds that prefer certain types of narratives, boring and/or annoying data gets ignored.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by Fricken » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #13

hackyhacky wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing like fascism and war to take your mind off the environment.

Because of how policies are grouped together in many countries (particularly the US), the fight against fascism is necessarily concurrent with the fight against climate change.

I haven't seen much fight against either fascism or climate change so far in the US

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by pjc50 » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

xyzelement wrote: post #5

As an observation, global warming has completely disappeared as social concern in the last few years. Great that someone is still publishing research, but it seems like being a climate scientist has gone from hottest field to nobody cares.

Well, yes, due to systematic propaganda efforts and the general shift from being against mass death to being in favor of it.

(the Iran collapse that led to mass protests and then mass murder of the mass protests is itself a climate driven issue https://www.unicef.org/iran/en/climate-change )

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by timacles » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #13

hackyhacky wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing like fascism and war to take your mind off the environment.

Because of how policies are grouped together in many countries (particularly the US), the fight against fascism is necessarily concurrent with the fight against climate change.

What a coincidence that any fight that might impact corporate profits is always the “left’s” interest.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by gspr » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:16 PM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #11

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Your attempts at derailing the discourse is not only frustrating – in the case of climate change it might just kill us all. You're a danger.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by ck2 » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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That an often repeated old lie even if out of ignorance

China now has 51% electric vehicles, they are switching the whole country to electric

USA won't do that for many decades

https://electrek.co/2025/08/29/electric-vehicles-reach-tippi...

Canada is now allowing Chinese cheap electric car imports which will be a fascinating experiment

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by rcruzeiro » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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America could set the standard and then use its soft power (or sanctions if it came to that) to make India and china follow suit. The problem is that America is now hellbent on burning the world, and its soft power is all but gone.

Re: Global warming has accelerated significantly

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Post by giwook » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

leetharris wrote: post #16

ck2 wrote: post #6

Basically the oceans are way way way too hot which is melting even the most ancient ice and that can never be undone in our lifetimes (well maybe from a nuclear winter) USA is about to have another El Nino summer which will be scorching from overheating oceans But don't worry, USA is solving the problem by Biden banning cheap electric cars and Trump ending electric subsidies entirely, forcing coal plants to restart

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China has actually been leading the charge in terms of green energy lately, at least in terms of making solar power equipment more accessible by way of driving down cost.

I have no idea however if they're just exporting this to other countries or if they're also pushing renewable energy domestically.

From what little I've read on this topic in recent years though they seem to realize that all of that smog is coming from somewhere and are taking meaningful action to remedy it, which is in stark contrast to what we're doing in the states these days with stifling clean energy and promoting coal.