No One Gives A Shit About That Climate Change Thing That's Going to Kill Us All

[Solid Snake]

So the entirety of Greenland's ice is melting away in an abnormally warm summer. An ice chunk twice the size of Manhattan has broken off.

There's compelling evidence that the power outages impacting half of India's population right now are at least in part due to the effects of climate change. In America, climate change has contributed to crippling droughts that likely will cost us over $450 million in damages from the wildfires in Colorado alone, as the drought made that situation far worse than it may have been otherwise.

Worse still, the media is completely failing in its duty to inform the public of how and why these disasters are happening. Despite efforts from scientists to show the correlation in detail, the presumably 'left-wing' media has steadfastly stonewalled reporting the news. When Bill Nye showed up to express disappointment in the media for its failure to confront President Obama or Mitt Romney on the issues, CNN -- not Fox News, CNN -- responded by derisively labeling him a 'kook' and giving excuses for its audience to disbelieve him.

It should be newsworthy that a Koch-funded scientist who once denied global warming even existed has now acknowledged its existence, but of course not. Let's just bury that headline and pretend it never happened.

As noted in this article:

In a recent speech on the Senate floor, Senator John Kerry characterized the political discourse in the United States as a “conspiracy of silence … a story of disgraceful denial, back-pedaling, and delay that has brought us perilously close to a climate change catastrophe.” This silence means that we can expect further delays in addressing climate change, delays that we cannot afford.

Of course, since only 74% of Democrats and less than half of Republicans in America even believe that climate change is a thing, because Flat Earth Societies are totally cool places to hang out and whatnot.

Still, I think the best recent development is George Will's accusation that climate change is totally a hoax and what's really going on right now is just "Summer." Uh-huh.

Or perhaps we should listen to the stellar advice of America's greatest lawyer and sterling citizen, Ann Coulter:

As Steven Guilbeault of Greenpeace explained, “global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.” No set of facts can disprove the environmentalists’ secular religion. In 2004, former vice president Al Gore gave a speech on global warming in New York City on the coldest day of the year. Warm trends prove global warming. Cold trends also prove global warming. This is the philosophy of a madman.

When shit finally hits the fan, I sincerely hope Coulter is alive to witness it, and is among the first to suffer the consequences.

So, this is how the world is going to end: We're going to refuse to give a damn about the catastrophic consequences of our actions, then enjoy watching the ecosystem collapse around us, as documented in these documents and conceded by the EPA.

Right now, we're heading for the worst-case scenario forecast in those sets of predictions. The one piece of good news for atheists: In proving humanity to be terrible stewards of the planet, we will refute the central contention of Genesis, namely that humanity can handle said responsibilities. I'm not sure that will really matter, though, because we will all be dead; not just us, but our descendants, and their descendants, and the majority, if the not the entirety, of our species, as well as nearly every other species on this planet, with the possible exceptions of the likes of cockroaches.

And despite all of this, we care less now than we did mere years ago.
Good job reporting what's important, media!

I will probably eventually edit this post for the sake of my impending legal career, but for now I'll let this stand: If things don't seriously change for the better anytime soon, I will genuinely support, in spirit if not in reality, the efforts of any environmental group to engage in 'illegal' acts of civil disobedience to boost awareness among the public by any means necessary. The continued survival of humanity as a species is far too important to allow the powers that be to continue to get away with this.

[Ryong]

We've been having a lot of droughts and some pretty shitty summers here and it seems our government also doesn't give a damn about the climate change. Heck, it doesn't give a damn about education and basically every public university is on strike for a few weeks now.

I remember reading a while ago that what would be happening was more to the likes of more extreme climates, both very hot and very cold, but I'll have to check how right that is, so excuse me for a while. Also:

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

and the majority, if the not the entirety, of our species, as well as nearly every other species on this planet, with the possible exceptions of the likes of cockroaches.

Emphasis mine. Naw, I'm sure a fuckton of species will do just fine, but humanity is probably fucked.

[Terex4]

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Ryong

I remember reading a while ago that what would be happening was more to the likes of more extreme climates, both very hot and very cold, but I'll have to check how right that is, so excuse me for a while. Also:

That's true, but Ann Coulter said (as quoted above) that some climates cannot become hotter while other climates become colder, therefore we know that climate change is in fact a huge scam run by evil Environmentalists, because, y'know, Environmentalists totally control all the major corporations and have access to lots of money and power to influence politics and science.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Terex4

that the thing that got me. Lets assume global warming is complete bull. So what? why would you be against reducing pollution. Even if CO2 isn't causing it, its still poisonous gas.

[Red Mage Black]

Well, I don't know if what happened during this past winter was a fluke or part of that. New England quite possibly had only two days or so of snow in total. The rest was either rain or cold without anything else. Not to mention the days where it reached at least 50 and I think once, even 60. Those were the days after the snow as well, so it vanished without a thought.

Can't say I know much about this topic, but I'm disappointed that global warming hasn't become a thing by now. I remember it being mentioned in the late 90's, but considering how old I was, I still didn't understand it. Especially considering that huge chunk of ice that broke off Greenland. Twice the size of Manhattan and no one wants to report something like that? Gods forbid we miss what's happening in Hollywood. It might not be a huge problem yet, but it will be soon enough. Signs of the end, huh?

[Magus]

It's only the worst drought since the Dust Bowl, Snake. I'm pretty sure there were worst droughts than that in the great desertification of the Paleolithozooic era or whatever.

So clearly because most of North America was under a shallow sea millions of years ago it means we should do nothing about climate change.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

that the thing that got me. Lets assume global warming is complete bull. So what? why would you be against reducing pollution. Even if CO2 isn't causing it, its still poisonous gas.

The only thing I dislike about that argument is the fact that gives even a moment's worth of hypothetical consideration to the possibility that global warming is, in fact, a bullshit hoax.

[stefan]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

that the thing that got me. Lets assume global warming is complete bull. So what? why would you be against reducing pollution. Even if CO2 isn't causing it, its still poisonous gas.

because money and effort and etc.

the biggest problem with trying to stop climate change is that all the people in charge are firmly in the "who cares about the future, I want my money now" camp.

Which, really, can explain a rather frightening amount of problems with the modern world.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

that the thing that got me. Lets assume global warming is complete bull. So what? why would you be against reducing pollution. Even if CO2 isn't causing it, its still poisonous gas.

The usual counterargument to this oft-circulated cartoon is the opportunity cost - For every scientist and engineer wasting their time on environmentalism, there is one less working on something else like safer cars, medicine, or space travel.

The problem is that protecting the environment is anything but a waste of time and we seriously need to get the fuck on that shit.