@DoomsdaysCW @rmblaber1956

My dad told me a few weeks ago, our local ski resort used to regularly have 24 feet of snowpack when he was a kid.

This winter, it barely had 24 INCHES.

I can stand on our porch and look at that mountain in the summer, and not only does it look so NAKED, brown dirt exposed all the way to the top, even from twenty miles away it's mighty obvious the big glacier on its northeastern flank is maybe HALF the size it used to be. Glaciers like that aren't supposed to fucking shrink visibly on a human timescale!!

I was maybe 10 when we went for one of our regular hikes up around the alpine lakes and the frogs were just GONE. A place that always used to have so many thousands the whole edge of the water was black with tadpoles in a band at least 3' all the way around the lake, and so many adult frogs it was impossible to walk without stepping on some-- gone. I've seen this coming my whole life, any actual scientists who study anything related to this for a living and somehow still manage to be surprised have been living with their heads jammed WAY up their own asses.

@violetmadder @DoomsdaysCW @rmblaber1956

I think the "stuns scientists" is, you know, a headline. Not a true statement. Maybe "stunned" in the sense that seeing the reality of it is still terrible, even if it was expected, but I doubt many climatologists are surprised by this as such.

Or as the end of the article puts it,

"'It is heartbreaking to see it all playing out as we have predicted for so long,' [a climatologist] said. 'The changes we have teed up for ourselves are going to be catastrophic.'”

@aearo @violetmadder @DoomsdaysCW @rmblaber1956 I'm tired of pointing out that "The Limits to Growth" predicted this, in 1972.

Arrrgh.

I would argue that Zeus / Yahweh / whoever the ChristoFascists worship are all the same deity, @rmblaber1956 .

@c_merriweather @aearo @violetmadder