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Leah Stokes@leahstokes.bsky.social |
Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be.
Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Captain Hurley
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That is astonishing and revolting. I mean, I'm 54, and I have lived my entire adult life trying to reduce my carbon footprint and raise awareness, and I'm just a bog standard non-scientist. How many more flags and alarm bells ddi they need? Are they trying to *blame climate scientists*?!
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rifka the unhinged fat activist
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N.R. Linesā· (she/her)
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Camille Bacon-Smith
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But for decades, you couldn't get climate scientists to make a definitive statement. It was, "A heat wave is not evidence. because weather is not climate," or "We can't say with absolutely certainty, but..." for DECADES. Scientists hate absolutes, but they screwed the messaging for a mass audience.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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Richard Creamer
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An earlier New Zealand article from 1912.
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The Real David Rogers
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It's politicians who were bribed by corporations, and apathetic, willingly ignorant voters who are as much at fault as the corporations. We got what we asked for.
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Zeddi - der gute alte Zeddiria
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It was taught me at School in the 90s, a quarter century ago, as a dreading fact.
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A.G. Pasquella
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Yep. Scientists have known about climate change for a long, long time.
theconversation.com/scientists-u...
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Halcek
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That's why there should have been strong regulations in place, because one simply must expect that capitalists would be lying for profit from the outset.
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Patricia Shannon
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And the media ignored the problem for a long time.
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Steven DeCaluwe
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Not to mention politicians who gladly parroted these lies as a convenient campaign wedge / excuse to coddle big business.
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Ditsy Von Whatsit
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No one was listening. Just like now.
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Heather Sessler
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John Vaillantās recent book Fire Weather does an excellent job of chronicling the history of climate change discovery and reaction. I learned a lot!
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Brigid Alverson
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I am 64 years old, and I learned about global warming in grade school.
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Arriviste houso
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#ExxonKnew, they all knew, and they lied and cheated and profiteered and polluted and poisoned.
Prosecute, fine, jail and ruin the climate criminals.
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John Shannonhouse
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I will never forgive Time magazine for claiming an ice age was coming based on the worst case of one of many scenarios and hearing decades of "Lol scientists said an ice age was coming"
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Charlie
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Scientists did there jobs. Media "both sides" corporations failed miserably. They pandered to advertisers & completely downplayed the implications of climate change. Many journalists still do. A pox on their houses.
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CC Quilts
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Never forget that Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, and Ronald Reagan took them off.
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Charles OāConnor
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I indexed a business database in the late 1980s. Business was very clear on the reality of climate change
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
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And Republicans, and both-sides journalism.
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JLRoberson
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Jesus, in the 70s when I was a kid CHILDREN'S CARTOONS had villains whose most horrible plan was to increase the greenhouse effect and melt the polar ice caps. That's how deep into pop culture the idea was then.
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Abigail Swann, PhD
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Wait.. It seems like just yesterday they were saying we were too alarmist.
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TheBaroness
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Scientists have been warning us about climate change since before the Industrial Revolution.
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Paula Kuokkanen
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Joop van Huet
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Yes, and those companies even had the most comprehensive data first. It's all proven multiple times, but sadly, denied much more times, and that's the crux right there. If we really want to get ahead on this (@about half past 12) facts should bear more weight, then those who try to bury them.
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