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> global warming, which baked the region in a years-long megadrought and has now flooded it with rain. I really don’t like the decision by some climate activis
by goodSteveramos 3y ago
> global warming, which baked the region in a years-long megadrought and has now flooded it with rain.
I really don’t like the decision by some climate activists to attribute every weather or climate related event to global warming. This really plays into the idea that climate change itself is just fear mongering. There is scant evidence that local climatic changes are due to the global warming. The climate changes without human effects and removing anthropogenic greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere is not going to permanently stabilize the climate the way it is now everywhere. If you want to do that you need to support some kind of climate engineering, and these same people will oppose that on emotional and not practical grounds.
- wlonkly 3y agoI'm looking at the headlines of the author's other articles[1] for the WaPo and none of them strike me as climate activism, and surely the Post itself isn't activist. What makes you think that quoted line is climate activism and not reporting? [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/reis-thebault/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/reis-thebault/
- goodSteveramos 3y agoI suppose you could argue that once the activist position is adopted as the party line it is now "reporting" and not activism. I don't really think the distinction matters for the purpose of examining the merits of the position itself.