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How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action

"You have probably already heard a discourse of climate delay. Perhaps it came from a friend, a colleague, someone famous or someone powerful.
This person did not deny that climate change is a problem, or even that it’s a serious problem. Nonetheless, they gave you the impression that solving climate change is not our job, that it will not require substantial changes, that it is too expensive, or that it is pointless to try."
Guest post: How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-discourses-of-delay-are-used-to-slow-climate-action

 

In case it slipped your notice, wrong badges LT, I judge you play for the other side.
I don't recognize your authority to relieve me, or to even assess my fitness!
I am alerting others that you are discovered, an enemy propaganda outpost, operating on this thread.

 

Siberian heat streak and Arctic temperature record virtually ‘impossible’ without global warming, study says

A study shows that six straight months of anomalously mild conditions in large parts of northern Siberia so far this year, along with an Arctic temperature record of 100.4 degrees (38 Celsius) that occurred in June, would have been virtually impossible without human-induced global warming.

The analysis shows that the six months of much above-average temperatures in the region would only occur less than about once in 80,000 years without human-caused climate change.

 

GIGO!
First, you have to prove humans CAUSE global warming! You can't say accurately, there is no other way this happened unless humans caused it.
Simply, you don't know how else it might be caused, or can't imagine how else it might be caused.
Having a pre-concieved conviction about something, fetters the imagination and blinds to other possibilities.

Garbage in, garbage out! The original bias, carries to the conclusion.
Fruit of the poisoned tree!
Neither the statement nor apparently the "study" is scientific. it's an ill-concieved opinion masquerading, attempting to pass as science.

 

Sorry, my friend. You long ago ceased being point man. You are now fighting a pointless rear-guard action for a long-discredited cause. Best to cut your losses. They will only get worse.

 

If I am so ineffective, why bother to attempt to dissuade me? You must feel I'm a threat to your mission! I'm encouraged!

"Ti-yi-aye-yime is on my side, Yes it is!"
2030 cold is coming to a neighborhood near you.
"And when it does? You'll come runnin..."
Don't be surprised to see a line at the Florida border with notices. One New Yorker may enter when one New Yorker leaves! Quota system necessary to avoid being over run!

 

North Atlantic Right Whales Now Listed as ‘Critically Endangered’
Just about 400 of the whales survive in the wild, and they continue to die at an alarming rate

Soon, these pesky animals will quit attacking ships and destroying harmless crab, lobster and fish traps. I've not seen very many and the numbers are so low they are obviously of little use.

Look at the damn thing sneering it's obvious disrespect at the American Way Of Life! "If I only had a finger", it's thinking.

Ha! Where's your Evolution now, Mr Punk Whale, can we say explosive harpoon??



North Atlantic Right Whales Now Listed as 'Critically Endangered' | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/right-whales-now-listed-critically-endangered-180975315/

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Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists

Like it's any of our concern what happens in the repressive communist dictatorship multi-party representative democracy of Mother Russia. "You get what you deserve". "Comrade, my caviar, it tastes of the diesel!" Haha! Too bad Boris! You need the environmental protections like we enjoy in the USA! USA! USA!

Arctic fuel spill prompts Russia’s Putin to declare emergency and slam slow response

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html#comments-wrapper

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...133bbb482_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_28

 

CONTINUOUS TWENTY FOUR HOUR CIRCUS IN THESE WATERS! WHALES, FLYING FISH, TURTLES, DOLPHIN, AND AT NIGHT THE SEA GLOWS RED IN A SEARCH LIGHT REFLECTING OFF EYES OF SHRIMP AND SQUID.
MAYBE SCIENTISTS SHOULD LOOK FOR LIFE IN CURRENTS? THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION!

 

***** Slashed a Major Environmental Rule. That’s Just the Beginning.

"This move is the latest in a litany of rollbacks: The ******** agencies have already weakened more than 100 regulations for power plants, cars, and oil and gas operations—this spring, according to federal records, the EPA has completed 80 environmental regulations and rollbacks, many of them cutting climate pollution from cars, allowing more mercury and arsenic from coal-fired power plants, and limiting what waterways the federal government will regulate."

Trump just slashed a major environmental rule. That's only the beginning. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/trump-is-rushing-to-slash-every-last-obama-era-environmental-rule/

 

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
The check is in the mail.
Just sign, the small print is only boiler plate.

 

"Ti-yi-aye-yime is on our side, Yes it is!"

 

Where the whales were and maybe some still are. Appears in this chart, not many were in North Atlantic. Whales mostly found in Pacific east of Japan, and Southern Ocean near Australia, the great capes, and Antarctica. Chart compiled 1853



About Maury’s Logbook Data
The data here were extracted from whaling logbooks by Lt. Cdr. Matthew Fontaine Maury of the U. S. Navy. The data include information on the location of whaling vessels and whales seen or caught from late 18th to mid-19th centuries.

About Maury’s Logbook Data – Whaling History https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/maury/about/

 

From the University of Hawaii Monoa

Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100

17 February 2020

Scientists project 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs will disappear over the next 20 years as a result of climate change and pollution.

Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100 - AGU Newsroom https://news.agu.org/press-release/warming-acidic-oceans-may-nearly-eliminate-coral-reef-habitats-by-2100/

Time to hop on the nearest 747, jet over to your favorite cruise lines and fight the throngs of tourists and entrepreneurs peddling love and peace bracelets to get a glimpse of a coral reef while it's still alive. Time's a wasting.

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Oooohhh, so cute!



Ohhhhhhh, so extinct. We hardly knew ya.

RIP, smooth handfish. You were weird, and now you’re extinct. | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/handfish-extinct.html