The real reason Trump denies climate change.

https://lemmy.world/post/44321648

The Strait of Hormuz becoming 1) a badly needed geography lesson for Americans and 2) the next coming of Saddam’s hiding place/troll science is one of the few bright spots of this embarrassing nightmare.

You mean The Straight Of 'Murica!

🎼Oh say can you seeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!

This is a lot less stupid than the guy that proposed we drive trucks from one side to get the oil to ships on the other side
I mean how many would you really need? 5 or 6?
You mean, having the ships make an awesome 360 no-scope big air flip isn’t realistic?
That’s gonna use oil, let’s make our people unemployed by AI do it!
Operation Epstein Fury Road.
What we really need is a brave and intrepid captain, a modern day James Cook or Vasco da Gama, who’ll throw out conventional wisdom and blaze a trail north up the Tigris to find the fabled passage through to the Mediterranean.
Unfortunately the best way to raise the sea levels is by using the oil from the straight itself, so we’re kind of at an impasse here
Give it time, we already dumped enough carbon in the atmosphere to see no winter sea ice. I think we just need to melt the glaciers over land and we are golden

Bet trump suggests they send out troops with flame throwers to Antarctica.

That should work.

That’s why they want Greenland.
We could use solar powered diggers to dig a second canal there.
Let’s be real. He had no idea what the strait of Hormuz was until after they started bombing Iran.
I thought we could just bomb people until they do what we want. Is that now how this works???
Or…you know…Project Chariot
Project Chariot - Wikipedia

I remember watching a documentary on the Panama canal. (Long time ago)

But I remember the take away was.

  • It cost like 100x more than was estimated.
  • Not like twice or 3 times. But like 100x. (I’m probably wrong about this number but you get what I’m saying).

    And that a ln incredibly large number of people died to make it.

    And that exploited labor was used.

    I think a lot died from malaria.

    And the Panama canal is like just south of the U.S. Same continent.

    Not that challenging to get to compared to the middle east.

    There is no way in hell another project like that could be under taken in a war zone , on the other side of the planet.

    DuPont got even more rich selling dynamite to build it.
    Come on. He’s nowhere near bright enough to come up with that. He probably couldn’t find Iran on a world map.
    Would the water even be deep enough for a cargo ship to get through?
    sure if you can melt the polar ice caps fast enough.
    Pretty sure that would completely submerge Florida as well. When do we start?
    Hey that’s a good point.