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    The big mystery is that this year it is not another story of breaking records like the year before. The rise has been intense and no climate change models, even the most pessimistic, account for this. Either this is due to another event (like the Hunga Tonga eruption, that sent a lot of steam in the upper atmosphere, for an effect that is not well understood) or the climate models are bad and we have no visibility over what will happen next.

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        8 months ago

        Doomerism is an attitude that is being pushed by fossil fuel companies to foster apathy so they can keep turning a profit.

        Don’t help them please.

        Edit: If anyone wants to see the logical conclusion of this kind of thinking, just read this exchange. I couldn’t have known when I pulled this thread how much of their ass it would show. So far they’ve called themself a “human extinctionist” and said “death to humanity” and told me to “die childless, hopefully in a climate disaster”. They haven’t commented on how this really does make them a natural ally of the fossil fuel industry. They also seem to espouse socialism, which… I don’t think they know what that means. This is just giving up with extra steps.

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              Being a realist isn’t doomerism. Recognizing that climate change is happening far faster than predicted isn’t doomerism. Wanting oil executives to hang definitely isn’t part of their plan.

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                The planet is correcting an imbalance.

                This is doomerism, and I don’t believe that you don’t understand that.

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                  I’m more of a human extinctionist than a doomer. I think humans should go extinct to save the rest of life on earth, as humanity is equivalent to a super volcano or meteor strike in terms of how many species we eradicate daily.

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                    8 months ago

                    Oh okay, so your doomerism is fine because you have a fancy name for it and you actually want it to happen?

                    How fucking gullible do you think I must be to say that with a straight face. Wow.