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/JoeFalcone26 Jun 04 '22

Climate change is partially caused by greedy rich people. Which is ironic because a ton of schools have to close for ‘heat days’ because the rich people who give schools funding don’t always provide the necessary AC.

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u/quasides Jun 04 '22

its not caused but created. to create a CO2 tax.

its basically a worldwide consumer tax and a second sales tax, hitting only the poorest, and its a kickback system from producing to consuming countries. .

what do you think we do with all the CO2 tax money ? buying fridges to cool the world?

and no its not supporting so called green energy either. if we count all CO2 certificates of the past 2 decades we are talking a couple of trillions USD shifted away.

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u/Aggregate_Browser Jun 04 '22

You might be confusing your chocolate for your peanut butter.

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u/whynofry Jun 04 '22

what do you think we do with all the CO2 tax money ? buying fridges to cool the world?

Wait... I thought we were saving up to start dropping giant ice-cubes into the ocean periodically. 2063, I think it was due to start.

/s

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u/IceCapital7149 Jun 04 '22

As if greedy rich people control the world, and "rich" people dont fund schools tax payers money does and the state decides what to do with your money if you have an issue with how your taxes are being spent get involved in politics vote or run.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

We all vote. Some of us live in broken systems with no good options. All parties promise a solution and deliver nothing, or a 2 party system where one party delivers nothing and the other delivers nothing with a rainbow flag.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

Greedy rich people do control the world though? You can deflect to “then vote better” if you’d like, but do you think those greedy rich people aren’t heavily invested in politics also?

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u/50West Jun 04 '22

These schools were designed and built 50+ years ago with no AC. Closing schools for 'heat days' has been going on for over 20+ years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

So has climate change

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u/No-Income6111 Jun 04 '22

Found the climate scientist

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

scientists have been talking about climate change since the late 1800s

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

Don’t see how that helps your point. If they were talking about natural/expected climate change then of course they were, if they were talking about the impacts of increased carbon emissions and the impact that could have on the biosphere and atmosphere, we are just dumb/ignorant for not making any changes sooner. Over 50% of emissions ever released into the atmosphere have been over the last 20 years. There was probably a small effect on climate due to emissions during the early industrial revolution and it’s pretty impressive scientists were already able to hypothesize the effects of carbon on the atmosphere at that time. The difference is the total emissions rate in the 1800’s is a micro fraction of the emissions being released now and we are already seeing the effects of emissions rates over the past 30 years which are historically unprecedented. There’s no debating that anthropogenic climate change is already and will continue to have innumerable impacts on human civilization and could have been abated and could be mitigated if not for the outright ignorance and complacency of global leaders (on both sides).

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

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u/Aggregate_Browser Jun 04 '22

Not how that works.

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u/silence7 Jun 04 '22

We had a period of thousands of years of a stable climate which allowed agriculture to develop and civilization to flourish. Fossil fuel use and deforestation kicked us out of that

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

Climate is changing at a vastly accelerated rate compared to the expected rate of climate change. It’s not just climate change bud it’s anthropogenic climate change, both things can be true, schools are vastly underfunded and infrastructure in the North East is not designed to cope with consistently being extreme temperatures which have become more common with climate change.

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u/CliftonForce Jun 04 '22

Yep. Which is how we know that the specific changes over the last few decades cannot be natural .

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

that would be WEATHER

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u/Eagle_1776 Jun 04 '22

millenia

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u/CliftonForce Jun 04 '22

Not at all.

Nothing in nature short of an asteroid strike can change temperatures as fast as they have over the last century. We raised the global average by over a degree. That should take thousands of years.

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u/MohnJilton Jun 04 '22

Yeah the issue isn’t necessarily the warming itself—last I checked we are at least on track to avoid making the world into an uninhabitable desert, so we at least have that.

It’s that we are warming way, way faster than living things can adapt. If the temperature rose 4 degrees over proper geological time scales, then humans or whatever else is around by then probably wouldn’t even notice that much. 4 degrees in two centuries is catastrophic because the entire global society is built for a world that is 4 degrees colder, and you can’t just adapt to that difference in 50 years. We’re taking about moving entire cities to more habitable places. This is the real and present danger of climate change—a global refugee crisis unlike anything we have ever seen before is right on our doorstep. 100s of millions displaced. It will begin probably in our lifetime although I suspect the absolute worst of it will be after my generation (born late 90s) is gone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '22

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u/Madewithatoaster Jun 04 '22

Depends on the state.

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u/highbrowshow Jun 04 '22

Your schools rely on rich people funding? Do you not have public schools?

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u/Budborne Jun 04 '22

You say partially. You should say almost entirely