So after one of the most massive and prolonged propaganda campaigns in history, this happens:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-americans-believe-global-warming-they-won-t-pay-much-n962001 …
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Replying to @Outsideness
If anything the campaign by the oil industry to obfuscate, attack, and misinform the public w/r/t anthropogenic climate change is older than the campaign to convince the public that it’s real, nearly unanimously backed by scientists of all stripes, and should be global priority 1
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Replying to @InTheNursesArms
Consistent alarmism-bias probably helps in the short-term, but after two decades it has become counter-productive. "Didn't they say we were all going to be under-water by now?"
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Replying to @Outsideness
Most assessments of climate change that hit PR are scientifically conservative: they almost never include positive feedback loops (eg soot from fires disrupting the albido effect on glaciers, or tundra‘s thawing releasing methane) bc Congress can’t understand them
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Replying to @InTheNursesArms
Climate has wandered far beyond recent extremes over relatively-shallow geological time. If Gaia had a bunch of powerful positive climate feedbacks hidden in the basement, everything would already be dead.
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Replying to @Outsideness
“Gaia” hasn’t previously held a (relatively) homogenous species reliant on domesticated crops which can only be grown in temperate conditions w adequate water
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Oh, you're just saying it'll be bad for us?
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Replying to @Outsideness @InTheNursesArms
... Assuming friends and enemies afflicted roughly equally, that comes out as a wash.
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