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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by pcrh on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:42AM (#32437010)
The real tragedy is that global warming was forecast decades ago. Even as far back as the 1912.

https://i.imgur.com/qT7iBSt.jpg

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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:25AM (#32438266)
1896:

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/future...

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

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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by rambojazz on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:04AM (#32437946)
"The effect may be considerable in a few centuries"

So optimistic! We F'ed up way before that!

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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by GLGirty on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:52AM (#32438647)
They underestimated the ability of new media to manufacture consent.
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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by vegai_ on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:58AM (#32437145)
I guess we could call it rather comedy than tragedy that there are still powerful people on this world who deny this in 2022.
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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by rapnie on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:44AM (#32437664)
In general I hope there'll be more attention to the reasons why they deny this: not because they don't believe it, but because it is in their interest to deny since "business as usual" is where they thrive.
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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by NDizzle on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:27AM (#32438288)
Oh no!

https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/8.png

Let's raise taxes in the west, that'll stop China and India from rolling coal!

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Re:Arctic melting four times faster than rest of the planet,... by throwaway33175 on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:42AM (#32439405)
Your superficial, what-about, reactionary response is a perfect display of how to ignore problems and go extinct over it.
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