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“It’s 2019. Can we all now please stop saying “climate change” and instead call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency?
#ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown”
Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn
“Donald Trump fails to grasp basic climate change facts”
Is a headline that is both extremely accurate AND also remains extremely accurate if you take the words “Climate Change” out of it as well
“The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level,” Mr Trump continued.
As for polar ice levels, data shows that they are indeed – as Mr Trump stated – at “a record level”, although not the level he had in mind. Last year Nasa reported record lows in sea ice extent in both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Yep, sounds about right.
“They’re at a record level!”
“Yes and that’s BAD”
“But..they’re at a record level”
“Yes, the lowest on record”
“Record…level….”
America would be better off if it had elected a five year old ._;
Anonymous asked:
My old Astro prof did that
Every year he gives a huge climate change speech and it always leaves the students (sand sometimes himself) in tears
jane fonda got arrested the third week in a row at climate change protests. this time with ted danson
Legends only
This is a very good way to use your privilege.
Jane Fonda has been involved in protest since the America Vietnam war
Jane Fonda’s activism did, in fact, hurt her career, and she’s out there risking it all again. She wasn’t just involved in protest since the Vietnam war (tho that is what did her career the most damage, some lawmakers were actually calling for her to be tried for treason over it)
She was already under government surveillance before that for her support of the Black Panthers and her show of solidarity with two separate first nations re-occupations (Fort Lawton and Alcatraz).
She’s not being silly or doing a bit or pulling a PR stunt. She’s just not letting the cops scare her. Because this is far from her first rodeo.
Jane Fonda’s mugshot from Nov. 3, 1970.
She was arrested on trumped-up drug smuggling charges, which an officer later admitted was their only way of booking her because god damn Nixon wanted her arrested for her anti-Vietnam War activism. The FBI and the CIA, and the NSA had been surveilling her for months without her knowledge.
If there is any celebrity whose activism is not empty lip service, it’s Jane fucking Fonda.
Anonymous asked:
Climate change.
Anonymous asked:
As an astrophysicist, what's your opinion on climate change? Do you think the activity of the Sun or people are the ones that cause the Earth to heat up? Can/should we even do anything about it? From what I've read, industries, agriculture etc account only for around 3% of the co2 emissions. The other 97 are from the nature (oceans, soil etc). I'm a bit confused, personally, because we all are told that greenhouse gasses are bad and we should do everything to make less of them.What do you think?
There are like 10 companies that are single handedly killing the planet and the only way to combat complete environmental catastrophe is to hold them accountable.
Plus, whoever told you those statistics were boldface lying to you.
Exxon mobil, in particular, is likely where that statistic came from.
This is an advertorial by ExxonMobil in the New York Times from 1997:
The text to go with it read:
While most of the CO2 emitted by far is the result of natural phenomena – namely respiration and decomposition, most attention has centered on the three to four percent related to human activities – burning of fossil fuels, deforestation.
A recent publication by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes in Environmental Research Letters has systematically assessed ExxonMobil’s climate change communications during 1977–2014 and found:
We conclude that ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science—by way of its scientists’ academic publications—but promoted doubt about it in advertorials. Given this discrepancy, we conclude that ExxonMobil misled the public.
Also, the ocean and land absorbs CO2
Sorry, I’m the last anon that asked your opinion on climate change. I’m having my masters degree in environmental sciences in an Eastern European country (don’t want to reveal any more details publicly, sorry) and the info I was given comes from actual proffessors here. This was told to us by a meteorologist who teaches sustainable agriculture and gave us a lecture about the cyclic nature of climate change, to be specific.
I’m not saying climate change does not exist btw! I’m just very confused at the moment, because it seems like there are two polar opposite opinions coming from various proffessors here and I don’t know what to think lol. I do realize that business is a huge factor and companies are interested in getting the public to be on their side, but I just want to know what is actually happening. With no bullshit.
These were some of the graphs that was shown to us.
This is not my opinion, to be clear! I just want to know enough to form my own opinion on this and atm I feel like my brain is being pulled in two different directions lol.
The last picture I think is just.. Not true?
This is straight from the Global Carbon Project
Plus sunspots have nothing to do with climate change. Sunspots are caused by the magnetic field of the sun becoming ‘twisted’ as the sun is gaseous and the poles rotate at a different speed than the equator and occur in 11 year cycles. Sunspots, much like the distance of the sun to the Earth, have no impact on climate. (for example, the Earth is closest to the sun during winter in the NH, but has no effect because of Earth’s atmosphere).
Also, the first graph is a bit hard to read but it just seems to follow mass extinction events and the climate change due to them? Mass extinction events being caused by horrible things like, yknow, asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions, and then look at the spike happening currently. You know what hasn’t happened in a minute? A massive asteroid impact or supervolcano eruption. So what could have caused it? ((humans)).
(The sources from my first post is from realclimate.org)
His current plan is to boost Florida’s economy by investing in city infrastructure and green energy, to give back to the middle class that, he believes, kept Florida running, and wishes to further protect from climate change by investing in both state wide and country wide green policies. Russell also wishes to dismantle discrimination in his state and country, protect families and workers through affordable housing and wages, to address gun reform and the use the new bipartisan background check act, and, finally, wishes to institute reproductive rights for all and focus on women’s issues in the state.
