WTF Climate Change News

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Laugh or cry?
Global Warming: Why the problem is worse – and solutions simpler – than you thought

Solutions, he says, are more politically achievable than most would consider given today's polarized political environment:

• Improve efficiency, including upping car mileage standards to 60 miles per gallon of gasoline, up from 35 mpg today.
• Expand clean, safe renewable energy, particularly home rooftop solar.
• Change personal consumption practices
• Stop destroying forests
• Support reproductive freedom.

Laugh.

Spoiler: But what kind?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I was listening to some cheesy 80s cartoon youtubes and came across one I hadn't heard of. It seems to be about battling genetically engineered plants with muscle cars.

This is the sort of shit I was raised on.

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

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I was listening to some cheesy 80s cartoon youtubes and came across one I hadn't heard of. It seems to be about battling genetically engineered plants with muscle cars.

This is the sort of shit I was raised on.

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

I think I missed that one because by the time it hit the States, I was starting college.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions

Court sides with Republican states as ruling represents landmark moment in rightwing effort to dismantle ‘regulatory state’

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Trumps' assholes in the SC are working as intended.

 

[Beebo Brink]

US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions

Court sides with Republican states as ruling represents landmark moment in rightwing effort to dismantle ‘regulatory state’

www.theguardian.com

Even assuming it is not already too late to significantly mitigate U.S. climate change factors (a big assumption, frankly), it's definitely out of reach in the current political structure. It doesn't matter what the Executive branch tries to do if both Congress and the Judiciary block it. Our system of checks and balances ensures a stalemate at best, and a rollback to even worse behavior seems entirely likely.

We lost this battle when Mitch McConnell stacked the Supreme Court. Dems always seem to show up at the fight with brass knuckles while the GOP is armed with Uzis.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on with dismay and does what little it can.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

We lost this battle when Mitch McConnell stacked the Supreme Court. Dems always seem to show up at the fight with brass knuckles while the GOP is armed with Uzis.

Wild how Jill Stein voters turned out to be enemies of multicellular life.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Wild how Jill Stein voters turned out to be enemies of multicellular life.

Not really, my guess is that she's a right wing environmentalist, not Left.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Even assuming it is not already too late to significantly mitigate U.S. climate change factors (a big assumption, frankly), it's definitely out of reach in the current political structure. It doesn't matter what the Executive branch tries to do if both Congress and the Judiciary block it. Our system of checks and balances ensures a stalemate at best, and a rollback to even worse behavior seems entirely likely.

We lost this battle when Mitch McConnell stacked the Supreme Court. Dems always seem to show up at the fight with brass knuckles while the GOP is armed with Uzis.

Sorry, but what's happening in your country right now is a conservative counter revolution from the top. So I don't see this coming by a long time.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Sorry, but what's happening in your country right now is a conservative counter revolution from the top. So I don't see this coming by a long time.

We know. Trust me, we know.

Aided and abetted by Putin and human greed.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Not really, my guess is that she's a right wing environmentalist, not Left.

I was talking about the voters.

 

[Free]

Not really, my guess is that she's a right wing environmentalist, not Left.

But but Green Party candidate.

 

[Free]

I was talking about the voters.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I was talking about the voters.

Well, its not like she'd be the only right wing environmentalist out there.... and I don't know much other than this is actually a thing - sort of like learning the problematical origin of the New Age movement.... ;.;

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

But but Green Party candidate.

I'm more and more thinking that the Green Party primarily exists as a spoiler for the GOP in presidential elections - I've never seen them run for anything else.

At least the Libertarians actually run for other offices.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling

Limiting the Environmental Protection Agency at a time when fossil fuel emissions need to be curbed is ‘devastating’

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Archer]

Trumps' assholes in the SC are working as intended.

The Federalist Society is behind all this, Trump was just the stooge at the podium.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Beebo Brink]

Spain, Portugal dryness 'unprecedented' in 1,200 years

Australia flood, boosted by climate change, making history in Sydney
The city is experiencing its wettest year on record after 8 inches of rain in recent days