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> Even the crotchetiest and most out-of-touch people I know basically accept that the Earth is warming now. POTUS tweeted "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?
by zzrrt 8mo ago
> Even the crotchetiest and most out-of-touch people I know basically accept that the Earth is warming now.
POTUS tweeted "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???" a few weeks ago when a record cold wave came in. I suppose you were talking about people you personally know, but it seems like there's a good chance many who voted for him would say it too.
Anyway, I guess there is a growing collective admission that the climate is changing even if the crotchety ones will still quip about it not being warmer at some given time and place. It's unfortunate that "global warming" caught on instead of "climate change."
- legitster 8mo ago[flagged]
- standardUser 8mo ago> The issue seemed to completely drop from public discourse during the Biden presidency Biden signed into law the largest investment in clean energy in US history, dwarfing everything that came before. Half the economy was trying to get their hands on some of that stimmy.
- legitster 8mo agoBoth were true, the IRA handed out a lot of money to green projects at the same time the administration quietly greenlit a massive boom in oil production. (The Biden administration issued more new drilling permits than either Trump administration).
- triceratops 8mo ago> at the same time the administration quietly greenlit a massive boom in oil production Hard to get re-elected when gas is expensive. Voters are uninformed but you have to work with what they are, not what you wish they would be.
- ModernMech 8mo ago> Anyway, I guess there is a growing collective admission that the climate is changing even if the crotchety ones will still quip about it not being warmer at some given time and place. It's unfortunate that "global warming" caught on instead of "climate change." Rather than a collective admission, I feel what's happening is the crotchety people are dying off, leaving us millennials and GenZ to clean up the mess. Thinks won't change until a critical mass of them are dead and gone.
- scoofy 8mo agoThat was always the plan.
- datsci_est_2015 8mo agoYou’re downvoted, but the demographics on this are clear. The younger you are, the more likely you are to take seriously the dire message that the scientific method has trivially produced.