Re:Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study...
by DangitBobby on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:17PM
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Plenty of Americans can see and feel the effects of global warming, they just don't think addressing it is worth the effort.
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Re:Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study...
by username223 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:33PM
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Do they? Wildfires are some percent more likely and larger, but forests have always burned, and there are other factors like a century of fire suppression. Hurricanes are more violent and frequent, but there have always been hurricanes. Eggheads will tell you those things, but your day-to-day experiences of them are easy to dismiss. Watching a glacier die is visceral:
https://maevethornberry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mer-de... https://drdirtbag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/athabasca36...
Re:Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study...
by carefulfungi on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:13PM
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Most polls find that a substantial majority of Americans acknowledge climate change is real. However, whether it should be acted on with urgency polls differently by party affliation and by geographical region.
Many climate change deniers I know have moved from "it isn't real" to "so what?" Or, perhaps more charitably, to "addressing climate change is not in the national interest."
I don't think people who want to drill in national parks, privatize and raze old growth preserves, or exhaust fisheries without limits are going to be moved by seeing glaciers melt. They fundamentally have different values and place other interests over preservation and conservation.
Re:Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study...
by robmsmt on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @04:10PM
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Tragically common. A tragedy of the commons if you will.
Re:Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study...
by Hikikomori on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:14PM
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Most Americans can see the effect but are unable to correlate it. The don't understand science. Most of them believe in a magical fairy in the sky.