@luckytran LMAO, scientists correctly predicted global warming as far back as 1896.

WhY dIdnT tHeY tElL uS‽‽

Bitch we've been telling you.

@luckytran jfc this is infuriating. Remembering the "hockey stick hoax" and before that "if it's global warming why is there winter?" I remember the IPCC from one end and David Suzuki from the other getting smeared viciously in the press for clear urgent statements.

I remember various climate accords getting shot down by political cowardice and venality. But beyond that, there were constant and coordinated propaganda campaigns against anyone communicating the urgency of scientific consensus.

@luckytran #climate #climatechange
>In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/#:~:text=In%201896%2C%20a%20seminal%20paper,Earth's%20atmosphere%20to%20global%20warming.

Scientists have indeed been communicating for more than a century.

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It's much, much harder to tackle Climate Change than it is to tackle a virus that can be beaten by soap, masks, and a hastily trained 6 pound dog.

Yes. Dogs can smell Covid. They can likely smell it before the host becomes infectious. They will keep us alive during times of plague if we let them.
@ddp

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Silly face-saving blame game by the journalistS, THE most responsible sector for societies' inaction on #climatechange, on par with the fossil fuel industry.

In Germany, members of parliaments don't even read the #IPCC Summaries For Policy Makers, but rely solely on newspapers for information on climate impacts. And if one or the other parliamentary committee invites scientists to inform in a session they do so according to their political party's strategy, ie they invite "scientists" who are overt lackeys to the fossil fuel industry or other industry sectors the party is in bed with. This is true for #CDU #CSU #FDP #AfD #SPD as got apparent since committee sessions got broadcast and session reporting includes which party invited which "scientist".

What I'm saying: just like normal citizens, members of parliament depend on journalists doing their effin job diligently in order to get good information on scientific uncertainties. If journalists are too climate-ignorant for asking the right questions then policy makers won't know that these questions might exist.
I hate 99.-9999% of all journalists. Hate. As in I dream of literally kicking their asses, barely restraining my dreams from tarring and feathering them.

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I mean, it's *technically* true. Scientists didn't communicate to policymakers in the only language that politicians understand: bribes.

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The FFing AUDACITY of these folks w/their flea-sized-brain!

That they’re #lying&crying is not surprising or shocking…
It’s that they didn’t realize the had to wipe their own butts!

There’s no shame or embarrassment…
No acknowledgement of “we told ya so”…
The selfishness of their perspective on the 🌏 is a shock to my belief in #humanity

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They are describing a real problem - particular risk areas couldn’t be quantified due to insufficient research thus creating an “ambiguity” in which mitigation policymaking was stuck for decades. The attribution is however incorrect, as research funding is also primary a policy matter, so once again the insufficient research can be blamed on the policymakers, not scientists who do the job they’re paid for.

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"You scientists failed to communicate."

The communication failure: 🛢️🛢️🛢️🏦​​💰​​💰​​💰​​💰​📺​

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Tjeezz indeed, ever heard of the Club of Rome reports in the 1970s…

Society just does not want to listen to this unconvenient truth…

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Ah, yes, the "why are you hitting yourself?" defense. I'm familiar with it.

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😡
Not only have they been warning us, they were hardly the only ones who knew...
The oil industry knew too.
https://davidsuzuki.org/story/climate-crisis-who-knew-turns-out-the-oil-industry-did/

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I have to say that I was gobsmacked when I found out about climate change this morning. They kept that quiet, didn't they?

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Not to mention the issue of editors who write clickbait headlines instead reporting the science accurately.

Such has happened to that article.

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“Scientists haven’t done a good enough job of telling us the truth about climate change”

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I might be a skeptic on trusting governments, but I think we are seeing an increase in governments of the world taking action on climate because we’ve reached a point where we all must act to divert disaster.

Previously it was someone must act, which meant someone else.

If it helps to clarify what I mean with the negative, we’ve move from
“If you don’t act we might fail”
To
“If you don’t act you will fail.”

We need everyone to give 100% or we fail which converts down to the individual government.

This must be a new version of game theory or something. Maths people, correct me if needed.

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Not to mention the gutless politicians that let them do it.

@luckytran "Scientists failed"...

WTAF...honestly...

This is a "stop hitting yourself" level of childish bully bullshit.

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I think the worst mistake was to communicate the warming as a global average. 1-2 degrees is NOTHING when you talk about weather. People talk about weather, not climate. This really depreciated the message. We did not connect the dots.

What we should have been told was about this extreme weather, extreme droughts and flooding due to killer hurricanes. The failed crops and ecosystem collapse.

It took me way too long to get it.