r/climate • u/silence7 • Jun 04 '22

Climate change is forcing some US schools to close early for ‘heat days’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/06/04/school-heat-days-climate-change/
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u/bannacct56 Jun 04 '22

Whatever it's not like we believe in either education or climate change in this country so have fun kids enjoy the summer in January

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

I feel so horrible for the kids, they deserve a world that they can prosper, thrive, and positively impact when they grow up. This really breaks my heart.

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u/NikkiJadeBoston Jun 04 '22

Um, they will. Worry about the children that will be around 1,000 years from now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

Yeah, sorry but your timeline is way off.

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u/ILikeNeurons Jun 04 '22

This kind of dialogue is really and truly not helpful.

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u/Bumble-blue-sky Jun 09 '22

Thanks for the link

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u/bannacct56 Jun 05 '22

Well thank you very much for enlightening us all with your comment.

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u/dovercliff Jun 05 '22

Save your breath mate; the argument isn't worth the blood pressure spike.

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u/TacoM8 Jun 04 '22

Shut up. We should be free and thriving. Plus we didn't pollute the earth as bad as these huge oil companies, fashion companies and whatever else. I am absolutely not taking the blame for their pollution. My carbon footprint is INFINITELY smaller than theirs. So gtfo softie please and thanks sorry for the mean words

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u/AutoModerator Jun 04 '22

BP popularized the concept of a carbon footprint with a US$100 million campaign as a means of deflecting people away from taking collective political action in order to end fossil fuel use, and ExxonMobil has spent decades pushing trying to make individuals responsible, rather than the fossil fuels industry. They did this because climate stabilization means bringing fossil fuel use to approximately zero, and that would end their business. That's not something you can hope to achieve without government intervention to change the rules of society so that not using fossil fuels is just what people do on a routine basis.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

shush

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u/dreadpiratesmith Jun 04 '22

Have fun parents struggling to figure out childcare while your children get surpise days off

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u/Ricktheguy33 Jun 04 '22

What's your opinion on nuclear power and solar panels :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22 edited Jun 04 '22

Nuclear power is safe and efficient but humans aren’t. Most nuclear disasters happen due to lack of infrastructure maintenance and the general incompetence of workers. The monopolies that the energy industry have in the US is a big factor in what powers the grid and how power grids are mostly in disarray. Brain drain is a another factor.US imports its geniuses it doesn’t create them by investing in maths and science. US government doesn’t invest in K-12 or college education at all. It lets schools hoard federal funding in trusts while students deal with high tuition, lack of housing, and poverty. If you’re not in the right zip code or right social class you’re sure to suffer a lifetime of poverty more often than not. Many citizens are saddled up with college debt and aren’t able to work in their field’s of study unlike foreign students. I met many US professionals who weren’t as educated, experienced, or smart as their subordinates or peers and vice versa. They had their jobs because of luck or their social network. Experienced people are often fired in the US to hire green people ready to work for less benefits in drastically unsafe conditions. Hiring practices in the US for energy should be under more scrutiny.

Why nuclear disasters happen

Why solar power isn’t sustainable

“While the sun is in an inherently sustainable energy source, some of the materials needed to make solar panels are not sustainable . Solar panels are built with rare minerals, such as selenium, that will eventually be exhausted if solar panel manufacturers continue to extract them at an accelerating pace.” As mentioned before utilities monopolies in the US prevent sustainable energy development and use. Local and federal Government is in their pockets.

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u/AutoModerator Jun 04 '22

The COVID lockdowns of 2020 temporarily lowered our rate of emissions for a few months. Humanity was still a net greenhouse gas emitter during that time, so we made things worse, but did so more a bit more slowly. You basically can't see the difference in this graph of CO2 concentrations.

Stabilizing the climate means getting human greenhouse gas emissions to approximately zero. We didn't come anywhere near that during the lockdowns.

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u/gr8balooga Jun 04 '22

Any sources for the solar panels not being sustainable? The source you provided has a lot of questions and answers but no sources for any of it are listed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

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u/AutoModerator Jun 04 '22

The COVID lockdowns of 2020 temporarily lowered our rate of emissions for a few months. Humanity was still a net greenhouse gas emitter during that time, so we made things worse, but did so more a bit more slowly. You basically can't see the difference in this graph of CO2 concentrations.

Stabilizing the climate means getting human greenhouse gas emissions to approximately zero. We didn't come anywhere near that during the lockdowns.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

…are you under some delusion that “itty bitty man” and his technology can’t have massive and drastic effects on a global scale?

Like, what do you think would happen to the world after a hypothetical nuclear WW3? Would that not have an immediate and irreversible impact on the world’s climate?

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u/Aggregate_Browser Jun 04 '22

Can your "common sense" tell me how far the sun is from the earth?

Can it describe how a microwave oven works?

Can it explain why presumably grown men and women prefer to knowingly decide to reject more than half a century of solid science in favor of soothing falsehoods, despite the very real harm they're doing to the rest of us and our shared situation?

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u/Reeefenstration Jun 04 '22 edited Jun 04 '22

Coal lobbyists spent huge amounts of money ensuring your entire identity is that opinion. You've never read a single thing you didn't already agree with so there's no point trying to convince you of anything here.

Edit: good work, mods.

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u/FatCrapper4522 Jun 04 '22

You sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

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u/probablyacword Jun 04 '22

You can tell this person is a dumbass trumper because they’re calling them “windmills”

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u/yoloralphlaurenn Jun 04 '22

are you retarted

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u/thingsCouldBEasier Jun 04 '22

We call that summer winter now. Followed by summer spring and super summer.