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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by schmidtleonard »

beanjammin wrote: post #67
archildress wrote: post #17

I just feel extremely sad about the mass quantity of events like this happening right now because they are all aggregate to huge negative effects but the average person knows nothing of it. It feels so unfixable.

They certainly want us to feel like its unfixable, but it's not. Were govt to put the effort into the energy transition that we saw in the early days of covid we could zero our emissions, and relatively quickly. The technology is largely available, it needs to be implemented. The ties between the fossil fuel industry and the far right are clear. Apathy, indifference, inertia, they are all products of propaganda and u…

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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by Brybry »

billfor wrote: post #82
bko wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we rely too much on government mandated websites than we do practical common sense that could save lives. For instance, over 175,000 people die from heat exposure each year across the WHO European Region. Compare that to 1-2k in the US. In this case, the Don't Look Up scenario is that people don't want to get A/C and governments sometimes make it very hard for them, killing hundreds of thousands because... I…

Cold still kills at least 2x the number of people in the same region. 363,800 deaths are attributed to cold exposure. https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/21/heat...

Couldn't they push heat pump units that cool and heat (with a bonus of not being reliant on wood or natural gas)?

Or do the regions that matter the most get too cold for heat pumps?

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by schmidtleonard »

perrygeo wrote: post #92

If this administration doesn't want to do anything to solve climate change, that's their choice. It's a terrible choice, but it's in their power to do so. However, there's a huge difference between dismissing the severity of the evidence vs. going out of your way to hide evidence. The first is born of arrogance. The later is naked cowardice - they know exactly how wrong they are. If they wanted to project strength, t…

They're still angry at Fauci for not going along with the world's dumbest coverup attempt in Feb 2020.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by bko »

triceratops wrote: post #74
bko wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we rely too much on government mandated websites than we do practical common sense that could save lives. For instance, over 175,000 people die from heat exposure each year across the WHO European Region. Compare that to 1-2k in the US. In this case, the Don't Look Up scenario is that people don't want to get A/C and governments sometimes make it very hard for them, killing hundreds of thousands because... I…

How do governments make it "very hard" to get A/C?

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Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by barbecue_sauce »

timr wrote: post #96
dottjt wrote: post #94

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I liked the idea behind the movie, but the movie itself wasn't very good. It was a bit like the movie Mickey 17, it didn't quite know what it wanted to be and tried to be a lot of things, but none of it really stuck and it ended up being a bit incoherent. The ending I thought was powerful though.

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Why would you assume people that went on to have successful film careers failed high school science? Just because someone doesn't pursue science as a career doesn't mean they received bad grades in it, especially at a high school level.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by monetus »

resters wrote: post #56

As the US slowly becomes N. Korea...

How in the world did Juche become our national philosophy? I'm not sure, but I think about it all the time now.

I'm on HN, so I tend to want to blame the ad industry. It's pretty nebulous to think that "made in America" directly snowballed into this; so many things did. The freakier nativism in advertising really could use a break right about now though.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by mayneack »

bko wrote: post #70
triceratops wrote: post #2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up

I think we rely too much on government mandated websites than we do practical common sense that could save lives. For instance, over 175,000 people die from heat exposure each year across the WHO European Region. Compare that to 1-2k in the US. In this case, the Don't Look Up scenario is that people don't want to get A/C and governments sometimes make it very hard for them, killing hundreds of thousands because... I…

What does this have to do with government mandated websites? Seems that the US had a government website about climate and few heat deaths. If the number of heat deaths goes up this year without the websites would you think that is because the website went away (obviously not).

Seems like a website with information about climate change without a mandate about max AC is a pretty conservative strategy all things considered.

Re: Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

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Post by timr »

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #105
timr wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why would you assume people that went on to have successful film careers failed high school science? Just because someone doesn't pursue science as a career doesn't mean they received bad grades in it, especially at a high school level.

I’m not assuming anything - this is why I used words like “probably” and “mostly” - but let’s just say that I’ve known my share of actors, and I’m willing to take the odds.
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