Pkp ProsperAug 16, 2024
Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Everyone posting this title, and it's excellent, but alas we especially need to heed the last paragraph of the article. #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/05/gobsmackingly-bananas-scientists-stunned-by-planets-record-september-heat

‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat

The carbon emissions driving the climate crisis and rapid arrival of an El Niño event are to blame, researchers say

The Guardian
Oct 5, 2023 at 5:44amWeb
Show threadPauline von HellermannOct 5, 2023
@marcrr yes! Was just about to add last par my own post on this
Show threadTom RitchfordOct 5, 2023

@marcrr

And yet right beside that article is this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/dutch-politician-who-worked-for-shell-poised-to-become-eu-climate-chief

It's like they're deliberately mocking us.

Begging our lords and masters, "Please don't kill the biosphere! We live here!", has systematically failed for decades now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare

Dutch politician who worked for Shell poised to become EU climate chief

MEPs to vote on appointment of Wopke Hoekstra after his endorsement by environment committee

The Guardian
Show threadBruce MirkenOct 5, 2023
@marcrr And here in the U.S., #Republicans are trying to undo what efforts we're doing to get away from #FossilFuels. It's truly a #DeathCult
Show threadPkp ProsperOct 5, 2023
@marcrr sure
Show threadspheruliticOct 5, 2023

@marcrr there’s no country on the globe who’s proposed this — very necessary, inescapable— solution, much less started devising a plan to implement it.

Good luck, humans.