Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

Pocket

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Gee, it's almost as if making universal mail-in voting permanent would have been a good idea that at least one of the two major parties should have bothered to propose.
 

NovaSaber

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MrBlud

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It didn’t have to be though. Capitalism co-opted it.

Humanity *should* be constantly advancing itself for the benefit of everyone. That can be accomplished with clean power and a negligible impact on the health of the environment.

Profit just has to take a back seat which it is *very* loathe to do.
 

Pocket

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On the original site, mousing over the image pops up this:

Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).

So that's also a clue.
 

wonko the sane?

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The issue is that every "trifling matter in far off eras" are going to be someones problem, even if you yourself don't live to see it.

It was hypothetical to him, it's an existential crisis to us.
 

Pocket

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A better question is how they managed to keep this a secret from everyone for over a century. No one else independently found out, or anyone who did was also intercepted and silenced before they could go public with their findings. On a global scale.

Ah, but conspiracies aren't real and anyone who believes in them is a paranoid lunatic, right?
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
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It was made in 1896 is how they kept it secret. We look at jive from the 1980s and ridicule them for how ******* stupid it was, how do you think we're treating the stuff from almost 150 years ago?

They published it back when, academic circles looked at the time lines, and ignored it because chances are their grandchildren would be dead! Then it was thrown on the pile, and probably only got around to be being digitized about a year before XKCD made a point of it.
 

Anonymous X

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Sunny, dry and 16C where I am in England today. England in February. Should be grey skies, humid and bitterly cold. This is all accelerating faster than governments of the world can react to.
 

Pale Rider

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FB friend:
Why do conservatives (specifically, global warming downplayers) keep thinking that "this has happened before in Earth's history" means we shouldn't worry about it?

Earth's history is full of events which would have wiped out all or most of humanity.
 

MrBlud

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Pocket

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And only the capitalists who are reliant on being able to sell fossil fuels. I'll bet the people running the grid are thrilled that they're getting all this free energy they can turn around and charge people to connect them to.
 

Anonymous X

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Still have strong doubts about the new government, but they’ve at least quickly overturned the previous Tory government’s nine year ban on building windfarms. Anything that helps renewable energy production is welcome at this point…
 


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