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This is the part of the problem it’s almost impossible to get people to accept and understand. The wilful ignorance, even among some of my own relatives, is le
by highwaylights 3y ago
This is the part of the problem it’s almost impossible to get people to accept and understand.
The wilful ignorance, even among some of my own relatives, is legitimately terrifying. I tried to explain the concept of a tipping point and got chastised for buying into fake news.
For a while I thought maybe a lot of people just think it’s exaggerated or something. Nope. They fully think the entire concept is a work of fiction, despite the overwhelming (and increasing) mountain of evidence.
It’s legitimately crazy out there.
Climate tipping points are poorly understood and are cumulative. We really don’t know if melting the glaciers is going to be enough by itself to raise the temperature enough to trigger the next domino to fall without further emissions which are also still increasing.
It’s not been over-dramatised. If anything, I believe the consensus view is too reserved in how it views the limits of impacts at 1.5 degrees.
- irrational 3y agoYes, I have relatives that are medical doctors, physic professors, have doctorates in statistics, are engineers (real engineers and not software engineers), etc. and yet, because of the lies of conservative politics, are convinced that at best there is climate change, but it is from natural fluctuations and not human caused, and at worst that it is a hoax. Either way, there is nothing we can or should do.
- badtension 3y ago> real engineers and not software engineers Thank you, as a software engineer I have to say this made me laugh lol. We make a lot of money yet are usually far behind real world engineering.
- achenet 3y agoI don't get how you can ignore that things have gotten hotter. Like maybe not believing a climate change model that says that by 2050 half of California will be underwater due to rising sea levels, I understand - it's a prediction about the future, likely to be wrong the way predictions about the future of the market are often wrong. But like... we've been recording temperatures for over 100 years now, and it keeps going up. How can you argue with that. It's like keeping a record of your child's height but refusing to admit that they're growing.
- jfengel 3y ago"Heat islands" "Fake data" "There was snow last winter" "It's not hot here" "They recalibrated the thermometers" "It's actually cooling since [last record peak]" There's just a whole host of excuses to gallop through. Knock down one, they'll grab another. Debunk that, and they'll move on to the next one... or return to a previous one.
- gmuslera 3y agoSo, lets bet really everything that all the climate scientists are wrong so we can keep making profits. I get it.