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Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by jhoechtl on Sunday January 28, 2024 @05:32AM (#39164292)
I am glad that I survived oil outage, sour rain, the Ozone hole, mass famine because of overpopulation. All in a lifetime. I must have had sheer luck.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by adrianN on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:30AM (#39164629)
There was massive concerted effort to stop acid rain and ozone depletion. Maybe we should try that for the climate crisis if we want similar success at preventing catastrophe.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by refurb on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:55AM (#39164815)
Amazing how the ozone hole repaired itself despite China releasing thousands of tons of CFCs.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/23/china-factorie...

Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by styfle on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:31AM (#39165070)
The article doesn’t seem to support your claim.

“After the ban came into force, global concentrations of CFC-11 declined steadily until about 2012. However, last year scientists discovered the pace of that slowdown slowed by half between 2013 and 2017. Because the chemical is not naturally occurring, the change could only have been produced by new emissions.”

“If emissions do not decline, it will delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, possibly for decades”

Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by refurb on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:06AM (#39165321)
CFC-11 is one specific CFC, you need to look at all of them. Overall they’re increasing, yet the ozone layer has continue to “heal”.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by quickthrower2 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @05:58AM (#39164436)
A bear is chasing you. “Glad I survived crossing a dangerous road, smoking a cigarette and unprotected sex”
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by getlawgdon on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:53AM (#39164802)
Your list is a 1.75. What's occurring and coming fast is a 9.9. Thanks for sharing the kind of naivete that helped get us here.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by baq on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:53AM (#39165217)
Yeah, but are you building a bunker in Hawaii? Because Mark Zuckerberg is building a bunker in Hawaii.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by BodyCulture on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:18AM (#39164974)
„Overpopulation“ is a fascist propaganda term.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by TOMDM on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:23AM (#39166045)
Come on, it was a bad prediction with some pretty bad consequences.

Yes some racists adopted it because it fit their agendas, but it was hardly fascist on the whole.

Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by paulcole on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:46AM (#39165158)
Also you’re in what, likely the top 10-20% of the wealthiest people on Earth?
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by slaw on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:41AM (#39164720)
Recently I survived covid exponential deaths apocalypse and Al Gore's sea levels rising in 2016.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by moffkalast on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:08AM (#39164901)
Covid was no joke, 3 million people died despite the entire world grinding to a halt and hiding in their houses for months. Sea levels are up 10 cm since Gore was VP and it's accelerating.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by slaw on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:38AM (#39165109)
61 milion people died in 2023 with and without covid. Al Gore predicted 20ft by 2016 not 10cm.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by ben_w on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:06AM (#39165318)
> Al Gore predicted

I see no predictions by him.

What I do see are examples of him selectively quoting other people and that he was in turn selectively quoted himself.

This is also why you shouldn't rely on politicians for anything.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/

Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by slaw on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:14AM (#39165960)
Al Gore got Nobel prize for PowerPoint presentation.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by ben_w on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:24AM (#39166058)
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize."

Which was extra ironic, given Kissinger reportedly said to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin "I figure it like Groucho Marx said 'any club that took him in he would not want to join'. I would say that anything Lê Đức Thọ is eligible for, there must be something wrong with it." while Lê Đức Thọ declined the prize, on grounds that such "bourgeois sentimentalities" were not for him and that the Paris Peace Accords (for which he and Kissinger had been awarded the prize) were not being adhered to in full.

Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by SomeoneFromCA on Sunday January 28, 2024 @10:15AM (#39166517)
No matter how you spin this covid brought up 25 mln of excess death. That massive event, which is so foreign to "normies" minds that the majority just ignore the number.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by SomeoneFromCA on Sunday January 28, 2024 @10:13AM (#39166506)
25 mln of excess death.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by moffkalast on Monday January 29, 2024 @03:12AM (#39173955)
Where did you get that number? I initially just looked up WHO's estimate which turns out quite the lowball compared to what everyone else is listing, but most sources I can find seem to say something around 5-9M. I suppose it most depends on just how much China is fudging their numbers since they had the most people exposed at the worst time.
Re:I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do by SomeoneFromCA on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:02AM (#39175335)
right here: 15 mln between 2020 and 2022 (https://www.who.int/data/stories/global-excess-deaths-associ...). For better, more up to date data check analysises by Ariel Karlinsky and The Economist.