Mastodawn

The temperatures across Mexico, India the American South Are Murderous.

Temperatures where the side effect is death. Power hasn't gone out, so many lives will be saved, Hospitals not crushed.

But only for humans. Some farms have cooling, most dont.

For creatures that are not farm animals or pets, the heat will kill.

Recent Australian fires killed, authorities say, 2 billion creatures.

We dont know what effect , fish loss in lakes, etc, will do, holes in the ecosystem.

@kevinrns Normally Palm Springs doesn't open its cooling centers on Sunday-makes no sense to me-but they will do so this weekend. Unhoused can use those facilities. Obviously this is just a bandaid covering two festering wounds, homelessness and climate change. Both are tough, multifaceted problems that can no longer be ignored.

@Barbramon1

Excessive heat hurts power grids. Excessive use from excessive heat hurts power grids.

Power going out, authorities warn, means "hundreds of thousands" could need medical care. Or worse.

Next year the temperatures will be higher.

The next year after that will be higher, because oil execs and politicians have lied for decades.

The next year, temperatures will be higher.

We have been warned.

We've been reassured, they were lying.

Build all the sun, wind, now.

#Climate

RevJeber Jul 14, 2023

@kevinrns @[email protected] @Barbramon1 Humans never deal appropriately with existential crisis. Unless it’s happening today we ignore it. We’ll pay lip service to the problem but make no real progress. It’s a form of “out of sight, out of mind”.

@jeber @Adirondack @Barbramon1

There is no purpose to this post. Feel free to take it back down, to replace it with a commitment to do what you can. Ill take this one down too.

@kevinrns @jeber @Adirondack
Back in the early days of environmental action there was a saying, "Think globally, act locally". I have adhered to that philosophy throughout my life. It may feel overwhelming, but we all have some power to change things. Use your power.

@Barbramon1 @[email protected] @Adirondack

Now we are demanding, now we have stopped encouraging and waiting.

Now we are demanding.

Build all the energy needed to make carbon fuel redundant. Un-Needed. Make enough energy that no one thinks of filthy deadly carbon fuels. So oil coal and gas are Un-Necessary, so carbon is Underground

Build it or we walk out and stay out. Calmly.

Build the demand for War Powers Energy Transition NOW,

Prepare to walk out, prepare to stay out.

To stay out.

#Climate

@kevinrns @jeber @Adirondack @Barbramon1 Please don't. Ive just attached a long and heartfelt reply.

I believe understanding the human behaviour element is important when deciding on effective action.

@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
It's happening today. More and more people who thought they were safe from the dire consequences of climate change are seeing those changes in their own back yards. When it's no longer an abstract concept people may be spurred to take action.

@Barbramon1 @jeber @Adirondack

The demand is build.

Japan sank the American fleet in Pearl Harbour, fascist Japan's conqquer the world plan with Nazi Germany.

Roosevelt rebuilt the fleet, as fast as America could, and defeated fascist Japan.

Build Sun and wind energy generation like tanks and ships for war.

Right now.

#Climate

@kevinrns @jeber @Adirondack
In so many cases the technology is already here. It's remarkable to see what countries outside the US are doing with currently available knowledge/engineering techniques. How did China get to a point where they produce over 300% of the solar energy that US does? They committed to it.

daym Jul 14, 2023

@Barbramon1 @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
That's a great shame as there's quite a lag between cause and effect, and positive feedback (marble balanced on an upturned bowl).

@mikeday @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
Yes it is a damned shame. Researchers as far back as the 19th century knew that human activity was increasing the temperature of the planet. Since the 1970s, if not before, scientists working for Exxon accurately predicted the changes we are seeing today. They spent decades and $millions covering it up.
There's no turning back the clock. No matter what came before, we are where we are. Urgent action needed.

daym Jul 14, 2023

@Barbramon1 @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
I wonder:
a) at what higher temperature the earths climate will stabilise at again once it really starts climbing, and
b) whether the earth might be better off without the human race anyway.

@mikeday @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
Temperature may not stabilize, but swing back and forth to extremes.
This is perhaps a more dangerous scenario because even if humans could somehow adapt, our food sources would not. This year drought has put two thirds of US wheat crops and over 50% of corn and soy in danger.
Hope I am wrong, but I have long predicted that Mother Nature will swat us off the planet like so many annoying horse flies.

@jeber
It's denial. And people will even deny that they're in denial.

#climate #ClimateCrisisIsNOW

@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack @Barbramon1
Once when a bushfire was approaching my house, I went next door to tell my neighbour, who was new to the area. I had experienced a bushfire before, she hadn't. I told her the wind had turned and the fire front was now coming towards us.

Her response- " Well *I'm* not going to panic!" said in a scoffing tone meant to imply I was.

Another neighbour who'd been having coffee with the first excused herself to go and put some things in the car. She had also experienced bushfire before. 1/2

#climate #ClimateCrisisIsNOW

@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack @Barbramon1
2/2 Less than an hour later, at a nearby " safe" area, cars were driving out of the smoke with residents clinging to the bonnet.

I believe the same dynamic is operating now. No-one wants to be accused of panicking. Everyone is waiting for someone else to give a signal. No-one wants to be the first to do anything other than go along with the flow of "normal" life.

The few who are, are mostly people who've experienced life-changing catastrophe before, who know that the worst *can* happen.

Emery Brooks ✒️📚Jul 15, 2023

@kevinrns @Barbramon1

Canada here. About 4 years ago it got so hot the sidewalks in my town were exploding...

Barbara Monaco Jul 15, 2023

@emerybrooks 🥺I remember that a couple of years ago an estimated billion sea creatures off the coast of our Pacific Northwest and Canada were cooked alive by hot ocean waters. So many warning signs. I am beginning to think it will take a mass die off of humans all over the world to get people's attention.

AutistiCritic Jul 15, 2023

@Barbramon1 @emerybrooks Maybe we should forcibly relocate climate change cynics to parts of the world most likely to feel the effects. 🤔

Barbara Monaco Jul 15, 2023

@benjamincox @emerybrooks
I don't think we will have to do that. It will come to them. It's happening now at a rapid rate in most parts of the US. Soon all but a small lunatic fringe will acknowledge the danger. Hope it won't be too late for the rest of us.

AutistiCritic Jul 15, 2023

@Barbramon1 @emerybrooks Agreed. 😔

Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs Jul 15, 2023

@emerybrooks @kevinrns @Barbramon1 a backwood of Canada here. I am choking on the gases from the burned corpses of those trees

PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼Jul 15, 2023

@kevinrns We really are in serious, unavoidable trouble aren’t we.

Kevin Russell Jul 15, 2023

@PaulNickson

There is an attack going on. The best time in all of history to build hundreds of thousands of wind generators is right now, today.

The top best time to build millions of solar cells for the roofs of all businesses and all homes is right now.

Right this minute. Nothing goes up in the past, anything delayed is death and storm.

Right now. Think: Climate Change is a grandmother with help for all of us being beaten by 10 men. We are obligated to work as hard as we can.

PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼Jul 15, 2023

@kevinrns We’re apparently doing well with wind. And coincidentally we currently have a lot of wind. Solar could do with a big boost although it is starting to take off.

The *main* problem with this is that no one with the power to do anything about it is the slightest bit interested. Classic NIMBY. Indeed for many of them it is a conflict of interest and £/$ always wins.

Kevin Russell Jul 15, 2023

@PaulNickson

We are hoing to get louder and calmer. Calm calm calm. We are not participating, we are demanding. We will walk out. If necessary we will stay out. Calmly. Until it shuts down. Until we are building the new energy system at speed.

No more encouragement, no more incentives, no more carbon credits, no more distractions. Build it all, build enough to make carbon fuels history, un-needed, un-necessay and under ground.

Sun and wind and batteries, now.

PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼Jul 15, 2023

@kevinrns Absolutely. We *have* to do this NOW.

@CherokeeSher @terrygrundy @StillIRise1963 @BPStuart @Yoshi @IveyJanette @curiousdoc

Jul 14, 2023

@kevinrns Either we unite and get off our asses and save the planet or we fucking all die together.

Theres no time for all of us to settle our differences. Theres only time enough to save the planet. #thegreatFILTER

@NaturaArtisMagistra @CherokeeSher @terrygrundy @StillIRise1963 @BPStuart @Yoshi @IveyJanette @curiousdoc

Build oil's replacement AT SPEED. Demand it. Insist on it. Get ready to walk out. Just walk out, just calmly walk out, to stay out, until we are building ALL OF IT, NOW.

All the wind generation needed, all the solar generation nedded. NOW.

The batteries, the grid, the interconnections.

The green jobs of the Transition, NOW, ALL AT ONCE.

Get Ready To Walk.

#CLIMATE

Justin Derrick Jul 14, 2023

@kevinrns I’ve said this before - the planet has a fever… and we’re the virus. Earth will spin for billions more years, just without us.

@JustinDerrick

This is denialist propaganda.
Cynicism and "oh wells" are all owned by Exxon.

Justin Derrick Jul 14, 2023

@kevinrns What am I denying?

That climate change is real? Or that humans will suffer? Or that we’re the cause? Or that everything will be fine without us? All are true.

I mean, it seems a shame to turn this lush green and blue paradise into a hellscape like Venus or Mars. But collectively, that’s where we seem headed.

Defeatist, maybe… Denialist, no.

@JustinDerrick

'Cynicism' and 'defeatism' are wholey owned subsideries of oppression. Vote supression professionals on social nedia do little else.

Given away free by billionaires, oil bosses and who ever was elected.

Delivered the SAME DAY as ordered, in boxes of a dozen gross, so you can give them away too. Hopelessness, anger and a desire to argue pointlessly, are included free off charge, in every package.

Enjoy you're well earned block. Peddle your bathwater elsewhere.

Ji Fu Jul 14, 2023

@kevinrns I always here stuff like this and I often wonder how people who live on the equator do it.

@Fu

You should not have to wonder, there needs to be at least 1 central place to track the war on life.
Carbons war on the only life envelope in the universe.
A single place to see hear the warning catastrophes happening now, in many many locations as climate collapse dries rivers, ends crops in droughts, reduces food for sea creatures, acidifies oceans, heats the day to "cook"

Many canadians think wildfires is 🇨🇦's only climate destruction. Dont realize itll all be on their taxes.