Speaking of #ScienceDenial and #RealityDenial, here's some beautiful debunking and exposing of #RFKjr (the one with the intellectual capacity of worm food) by the brilliant and blunt #ProfessorDaveExplains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqI_z1OcenQ
#MAGA #MAHA #Trump #DHHS #HealthAndHumanServices #Vaccines #VaccineDenial
Been a long day but I am now home and doused with icy water from the nozzle. Time for a cuppa and some hilarious nonsense on YT
You know the ol' Flerfer saying - "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its a CGI camel".
Shamelessly stolen from a YT comment because it's so true, so funny, and needs broader appreciation.
Hydroclimatic whiplash events and hypernormalisation
The Nasa report: β...is a stark reminder that a hotter planet means more severe floods and droughts. This has long been predicted, but is now being seen in reality."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/nasa-data-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-intensity-of-weather-events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
#FossilFuels #HydroclimaticWhiplash #floods #drought #ExtremeHeat #climate #MassDelusion #reality #RealityDenial #hypernormalisation
More than 150 βunprecedentedβ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
"Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced."
βGlobal warming continues unabated, exactly as predicted correctly since the 1980s, [and] millions of people are increasingly suffering the consequences. We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of fossil fuels fast. We have the solutions β but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry. Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics and silencing scientists can only lead to harm, and ordinary people will pay the price for that.β Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/19/unprecedented-climate-disasters-extreme-weather-un-report
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #RealityDenial #floods #heatwaves
Getting Australia out of climate denial?
Get more sympathetic media coverage by involving the blokes from "resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics"
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-025-00217-6
Farmers, investors, miners and parents:
how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences "Holdout groups in Australia can include people associated with political conservatism, the business sector, farming, the resource sector, some religious groups and some sports fans."
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https://theconversation.com/farmers-investors-miners-and-parents-how-unconventional-climate-advocates-can-reach-new-audiences-249949
#climate #climatedenial #RealityDenial #extractivism #industry #MasculineNorms #conflict #msm #media #LoggingImpacts #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateAction
Environmentalist-identified advocates have contributed to high levels of public support for climate action across countries. However, there remain important holdout constituencies that theory and evidence suggest are less likely to be persuaded by environmentalists, especially constituencies associated with resources and economic production, rural and regional areas, masculine norms, and conservative belief systems and politics. Emerging from these holdout constituencies, though, are some novel advocates for climate action. In this paper we theorise βunconventional climate advocatesβ as those who combine advocacy for climate action with a social identity that departs from the prototypical environmentalist identity. Using social network analysis we show that unconventional climate advocates in Australia are peripheral to the main environmental movement, that is, the conventional advocates for climate action. We contend that unconventional advocates can broaden the social base of support for climate action, and their independence from conventional advocates β environmentalists β may aid in their efforts.
"Elections have consequences."
The next time some idiot (or covert hireling) suggests we don't bother to vote because [any of a long list of failed logic], include this with a litany of empirical evidence confirming otherwise.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-data-analyses-missing-mmwr-bird-flu-seasonal-influenza/
Is it wrong that I enjoy watching Flerfs making an arse of themselves?
"Democracy is designed to mediate the differences among those who believe in democracy, not resolve the conflict over whether to have democracy at all."
"You canβt debate democracy with people who donβt believe in democracy, or debating, or empirical evidence, or anything approximating truth or reality."
#uspol #trump #democracy #wearefucked #realitydenial
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/what-it-looks-like-when-one-side-rejects-democracy
Bellingen's Tuckers Nob Forest remnant vegetation to be clear-felled
Dr Tim Cadman documents remnant vegetation and rainforest trees that might soon be eliminated by the NSW Forest Corporation. Giant fossil fuel machinery will cause destruction and might bring pathogens (Myrtle rust) from other areas. In the so called 'plantation' area lantana is thriving. Koalas and other wildlife will be robbed of their habitat. Reality and State Forestry maps seem to have nothing to do with each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkYZj2YhUfE
#ForestryCorporation #ClearFelling #NSWLogging #MyrtleRust #weeds #rainforest #BellingenLogging #Bellingen #GlenifferRoad #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #RealityDenial #TuckersNob026027 #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity
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