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It is what it is.

Scientists and experts have tried for 50+ years to warn about it but now it is what it is.

The Greenhouse Gas Effect should have been enough. Altering the reflective properties of the atmosphere and increasing the energy budget of the planet surely must be a terrible idea.

But do we know that it is a terrible idea?

They looked back in time to show that historically more CO2 means increased temperature and changes in the climate system that we may not want.

They looked forward in time to simulate how our emissions will lead to a hotter climate and how it might change in ways we might not want.

They even took all these models that admittedly vary and depend on initial conditions and assumptions and they combined them all so that we aren't sensitive to only one kind of model and method.

Still, people think we cannot know such things.

It is what it is. But one thing I do know for sure is that we have lost the excuse to go back and question things. We can't say "If only we were warned". "If someone really knew, why didn't they say anything?" "Why weren't they more persuasive?" This has been screeched about for most of our lives. Every single person on the planet knows about it. Any skepticism and doubt has been explicitly against the advice of those who know. We chose not to listen.

It is what it is, but I will spend what little money I have and what little democratic say I have to move us into a world with less emmisions. It may be too late, but I'd like to be able to sleep at night.

Yeah... Gets pretty old pretty quick hearing my older relatives scepticism around climate change while our seasons get visibly more extreme year over year.

Heatwaves of >30C were literally unheard in my area when I was younger, yet now they occur multiple times in a single summer.

And same with the cold snaps in the winter. It was rare when I was younger, and now it also happens multiple times a winter.

Its like people see all this and yet still can't put two and two together that maybe this is the climate change scientists have been crazily screaming into the apathetic void about for the last half a century.

And worse still, some will say "its natural for the climate to change over time". Which is true... OVER CENTURIES of geological time!! These extreme climate changes over the matter of a couple of decades are not the same as the natural shifts in climate over time!

South Park mirrors this. Since its a show which acts as social commentary and pokes fun at current events, they did Al Gore dirty and made fun of him for supposedly believing in imaginary climate change (man bear pig). 10 years later, they made episodes saying he was right.

Many people got the message, however wrong, that it was nothing to worry about for 100 years, and read things like "2.1C" and figured that wasn't very much.

Of course, our public education system being dismantled by the billionaires hasn't helped at all. At least, it hasn't helped we the poors, they're getting exactly what they wanted.

I still think about Bernie Sanders’ debate with Hillary where they were asked the top threat to America. His response wasn’t terrorism or drugs or crime. It was Global Warming.

He pointed out that global warming was causing a lot of worldwide problems related to resource scarcity. I found it interesting and wonder how much worse it has gotten since 2016.

So fucking selfish man....

Do you people not even consider that billionaires got to buy another yacht? Or another island? You dirty communists just want to stop these billionaires from owning a 65th yacht just so you can what? Not sweat to death? .... fucking selfish people...

Becoming (at least partially) vegetarian/vegan is one of the most impactful solo actions that a person can take.

Yeah, I have no sympathy. If you can't handle me flaming you for being a sleepwalking dipshit then you haven't fucking learned anything, you're just jumping on the zeitgeist because you're a fucking parrot.

I've had nightmares about climate change since I was about 10 years old. I'm 32 now. I have been watching everyone around me sleepwalk into this as if nothing matters, now I'm expected to feel bad for this fucking monkey because they've suddenly woken up?

No, fuck that and fuck them — this type of person is the reason fascism is winning around the world.

For me personally the tipping point was when research showed large amounts of methane escaping the thawing ice. We really can't reverse something on that level, we're on damage control and assholes are still refusing to control for damage.

people wernt alarmed when most countries abandoned thier climate goals/initiatives like years ago.

"Only now is it clicking???" They literally said they believed in it! This thread is a perfect example of why so much of the fediverse is fucking insufferable. This is not a climate change denier, you fucking morons. So determined to find enemies absolutely everywhere that when someone says something as innocuous as "several years ago I hadn't noticed the physical changes yet," hundreds of people are upvoting unproductive, misdirected, snide mockery.

A friend of mine went to Ireland one summer about 20ish years ago. Never once did it get above 20 degrees and it rained most days. Someone I know in Mexico grew up in a town where the architecture is designed around rain. The buildings downtown all have roofs overhanging the sidewalks because it used to rain most days, so they designed things to shelter pedestrians. The place also had an airport, but it was unusable most of the time because it was too foggy / rainy. These days it only rains occasionally and can be mid-30s for several months of the year.

There are a lot of places where people used to need heating in the winter, but the summers were brief but pleasant. Now, in a lot of places the winters are still brutal, but now summer days get so hot that air conditioning is also a necessity.

But, what worries me most is farming. Farmers need predictable seasons. If they know the summer will be warmer and dryer they can sometimes switch to different crops. That doesn't work if there's unpredictable weeks-long rain when it's time to harvest.

Humanity is resilient, and humans will survive. But, being a living human in 2226 might be awful. Enjoying the outdoors might just not be something people can't do anymore. All the natural ecosystems of the world might have collapsed, and people just eat nacho-flavoured protein paste and dream about what it was like to eat a raspberry.