St. Greta says “how dare you!”
Earlier this month, a monster Midwestern thunderstorm called a derecho turned the skies over South Dakota a sickly green.
The new colors of the sky are so terrifying, they will spur us to action, @jetjocko says.
Here's why. ???? https://t.co/tMmvhDMKOD
— Insider (@thisisinsider) July 28, 2022
From the cult screed
The sky is supposed to be blue, dammit. I mean, come on. And if it isn’t? That’s a signal.
Earlier this month, a monster Midwestern thunderstorm called a derecho — 60 miles wide, with gusts up to 90 mph — turned the skies over South Dakota a sickly, ectoplasmic green. The internet did its WTF?! thing; images from social media went viral and then hit the news, followed by the requisite explainers. It all moved even faster than the storm itself — just as it did two years ago, when massive wildfires turned the skies over San Francisco a shade of Golden Gate orange. People freaked. And why not? It was real weird. Apocalyptically weird.
Wildfires and bad weather never happened before 1850, you know. It’s all very silly, like a really bad movie on the SyFy channel (do they do movies anymore? Seems like they’re always showing wrestling)
San Francisco orange and Sioux Falls green — along with the neutral taupe of Dubai during one of its recent, megacity-size sandstorms — are unprecedented sights in both vividness and severity. Derechos and wildfires and sandstorms have all happened before, but not like this. The difference: climate change, our dunderheaded anti-terraforming of Earth. Unseasonable, bigger, and more dangerous are hallmarks of the new world, where city skies are tuned to the color of a dead planet (with apologies to William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”).
Unprecedented? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Can the cult prove it didn’t happen before the Modern Warm Period?
So maybe you’ll think it’s even weirder that I think this is great. We’re going to owe a kind of thank-you to the Earth’s scary new colorways — and to the evolutionary quirks of our eyes and brains that let us see color in the first place. Climate change has been going on for a century and a half. For most of that time, it has been so subtle that people couldn’t see it, or could ignore it. But our color vision is tailored for survival. When the sky turns green, we notice. I’m hoping the eldritch skies will get people to fight the coming climate catastrophe better than any dictionary-size international science report ever could.
Have you seen the movie Twister? Remember the scene about going green? Yeah, because tornadoes happened prior to 1850, and the skies would look scary.
Which is why the sudden and dramatic shift in the sky’s color could prove to be our salvation. First it was that bright, cyberpunk orange in San Francisco, when soot from unseasonably large wildfires — driven in part by climate-change-induced drought and heat — absorbed the blue wavelengths of sunlight and let through the reddish-orange. Then a layer of the Bay Area’s famous fog crept in underneath, scattering that light omnidirectionally. It was super creepy, and people noticed.
These people are a cult utterly divorced from science and history.
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Unprecedented? Well of course 3.5 billion years ago the Earth’s Temps were over 1000F
Perhaps more accurately it should have said ” unprecedented in human history adversely affecting 1+ billion humans”
Changes in climate now affect the 8 billion humans living here. Of course changes may affect the rich must less than the poor.
As for taxes please remember that the 2 trillion dollar tax cut fir tge rich was permanent, the Trump tax cut for middle/low expired this year so taxes were going up anyway.
You do realize that there have been humans living on earth even during the last ice age, right?
Yeah, let’s just ignore the Little Ice Age, the Roman Climate Optimum, and Medieval Warm periods.
And the fact that ice ages are cyclical, interrupted by (wait for it…) NON-ice ages, otherwise known as “warm periods”.
Translation, accepting for argument’s sake that you are correct (Yes, it would be a first, but it’s theoretically possible):
“They’re already getting hit, so hit ’em again!”
Sounds like Liberal Compassion again.
I am all for the left taking away all of the LEFTS billionaire’s money. Rob them blind. Take every dime, Then tax them at 99 percent.
Jeff Bezos
Bill Gates
Warren Buffett
Mark Zuckerberg
Michael Bloomberg
Larry Page
Net worth under $50 billion
Charles Koch
Rupert Murdoch
George Soros
George Lucas
Jack Dorsey
Meg Whitman
Howard Schultz
Oprah Winfrey
Tom Steyer
Tim Cook
Mark Cuban
J.B. Pritzker
Ted Turner
Eric Schmidt
Go for it Hairy. Go for it.
“the Trump tax cut for middle/low expired this year so taxes were going up anyway.”
The dems/leftists control Congress and the WH so why do you guys let them expire? You can change the border laws but refuse to save Americans from increased taxes? Why?
And since you say taxes are “going up any way” why on earth would you want them to go up even more in the beginning of what will be a long recession if not depression?
Our genius Johnny is at it again. All individual tax breaks from the before-mentioned tax law expire in 2025. If that’s over your head, John, yes, that would include the highest brackets
John-please show us evidence that additional CO2 is “adversely affecting 1+ billion humans”. We know that because you’re an alarmist, evidence is always optional….
These people are a cult utterly divorced from science and history.
Well, yeah. Because if you KNOW anything about science or history, you know they’re full of Used Food.
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“Climate change has been going on for a century and a half.”
Stupid is as stupid writes.