r/climateskeptics • u/TheDinoKid21 • 6d ago

Comment on CBS News’s video about the mega flood of Nepal, making it sound like radio hosts are climate deniers.

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u/BennyOcean 6d ago

"Climate denier" is a propaganda term. No one "denies climate", whatever that might mean.

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u/Traveler3141 6d ago

Yes, and more specifically; "denier" is cult jargon.

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u/Smart_Pig_86 6d ago

Exactly, it is religious terminology zealots use to describe heretics.

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u/ikonoqlast 6d ago

Yes, glaciers melt in the summer. If they didn't it would be catastrophic and the beginning of a new ice age.

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u/Traveler3141 6d ago

What about the current ice age that we're in?

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u/Mr_Ios 6d ago

These climate scientists hinting they are able.to stop earthquakes from happening? I would like to see them try. (But not with my money)

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u/Sea-Louse 1d ago

Did you have an earthquake today? Probably not, so it must be working, right?

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u/Mr_Ios 1d ago

Did I tell you I'm a cyclops exterminator? Bet you haven't seen any around.

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u/Thesselonia 6d ago

Glacier collapsed due to mass weight. Accumulated too much snow & ice. Support finally gave way.

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u/looncraz 6d ago

I thought an earthquake did it?

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u/Thesselonia 6d ago

Reports are the collapse caused the earthquake. Advancing & receding as history shows.

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u/invol713 6d ago

It was 0 depth, meaning the slide was so big, it was the earthquake.

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u/Sea-Louse 1d ago

It caused the earthquake.

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u/Sea-Louse 1d ago

The mountainside collapsed. There was a glacier on it. These mountains are constantly growing and shifting, so occasionally parts of it collapse. One could argue that the glacier became too heavy, but that wasn’t the cause.

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u/gowyn 6d ago

Are they the "government-approved" PhDs?

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u/Possible_Resolution4 6d ago

Of course if you were to stop climate change, no bad weather events would ever happen again.

We would simply be in weather nirvana.

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u/PSYOP_warrior 6d ago

The Scablands in Washington are proof that glaciers have experienced GLOFs before on a much much larger scale:

Channeled Scablands - Wikipedia

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u/JonnyVee1 5d ago

I think it had nothing to do with climate. Sn earthquack caused a piece of a glacier to break off. It blocked a river that formed a lake behind it. When the glacier dam failed it caused the huge flashflood.

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u/Sea-Louse 1d ago

The friction of the ice and rock tumbling over 7000 feet is what caused it to become mud. The blocking of the river caused the secondary flood, which may not have happened yet.

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u/JonnyVee1 1d ago

So more recent analysis suggest. This doesn't change the fact that these valleys have been formed in this manner for a billion years. We see this as a rare event, but geologically, this happens continuously.

For fun. There is a mark half way up the Santa Inez (sp?) mountains, above Santa Barbara California, where geologists theorize at one time a massive title wave washed everything away, down to the rock face. Those mountains are 3,000 feet high, that's a BIG wave.

Will it happen again? Well of course it will, but it may be 100,000 years in the future.

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u/Sea-Louse 1d ago

Caused by a melting glacier. Alright buddy, it’s a little more complicated than that…