#ClimateDenial

@nickofnz

The problem is much harder than you say.

They will argue that it's not the data center, it's the energy use.

Then they will argue they've greened the energy.

But the real problem is in that. We have already in many places accepted what we should never accept: that anything can be greened other than the entire world.

If it's possible for a subset of people, with high tech or much money, to just green the things they want and then leave everything else alone, we will fail.

They will sit back and said "we did our part, now you do yours". But meanwhile the world, which does not portion up that way, will fail.

They have their bunkers, which I'm sure will not work, but it doesn't matter if they'll work. It matters that they control the policy and they imagine themselves safe.

We need to insist that people understand. You cannot add a need to the world and then green it up and say it's balanced. All that effort greening was already owed to the existing world. When you see it this way, you understand that they didn't green their energy, they stole the greening they owed the world.

THAT is the problem. We're all in this together. They somehow imagine not. We can't escape doing all the parts. If there is someone with more resource than someone else, that doesn't mean they can do their part and stop, it means they owe their surplus to the problem. Most people are busy just surviving. Only the people with surplus can fix this, as a practical artifact of how we've made money work. They think that doesn't feel like how money should work. Too bad. Physics just doesn't agree.

#climate #ClimateDenial #Green #GreenEnergy #AI #DataCenters #power #GreenPower #energy #RenewableEnergy

2025-12-20

Sabotage of climate action is systemic, not the result of individual actors.
Free download of ebook.

H/t @ElSaltoDiario

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
cssn.org/news-research/global-

#climate #ClimateDenial

Hey, it's that time of year for my seasonal poem A Christmas Peril. When I originally wrote this, in 2008, it seemed to many people that it expressed a distant possibility, but was a cute fairy tale.

Even then, also in 2008, I had done some back of the envelope calculations that suggested to me the possibility that human civilization could be wiped out, perhaps even humanity could go extinct, as early as 2035. But I didn't expect any one would believe it.

Now, less than twenty years later, I feel almost embarrassed circulating it because I hope most people can easily see how it pales against the stark and aggressive reality that the Climate Crisis is.

As for 2035? Well, I hope we have at least that long, but I'm a little worried we don't. Acceleration is a weird thing. Civilization may seem solid, but there are things that could happen (crop failures are the one I'm looking to) that could cause everything to unravel really quickly.

Maybe I should be updating my poem. But, for now, this is what I have to offer. Please read it if you haven't, and share it with family and friends as part of your holiday season. Mastodon boosts count as part of that, if you're of a mind to. :)

Happy holidays, everyone. The Climate Crisis isn't a very happy thought, but it underscores the importance of savoring civilization, stability, family, and friends while you can. I'd like to be wrong. But I wouldn't bet money on it.

nhplace.com/kent/Writing/A-Chr

The poem is available in three languages (English, Spanish, and Portuguese) with several audio tracks.

#Christmas #AChristmasPeril #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #poem #ice #SeaIce #arctic #Santa #elves #Writing #WritingCommunity #coal #holidays #HolidayTraditions #PolarBears #Spanish #Portuguese #poesia

2025-12-18

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”

By Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer and Jack Healy, Dec. 17, 2025

Excerpt: "Mr. Trump routinely mocks #ClimateChange as a hoax and his administration has labeled virtually all efforts to study climate change, reduce the level of dangerous greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or protect communities from the impacts of #GlobalWarming as 'alarmism.'

The administration said the center had supported what it called frivolous and ideological issues, such as research on how to protect wind turbines from hurricanes and a project to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into studies of how climate change would affect #CoastalCommunities.

"Yet experts said much of the center’s activities focused on basic atmospheric science that had little to do with political debates over climate change."

Read more:
nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate

Archived version:
archive.ph/bEUHB

#SeaLevelRise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAlarmism #ClimateDenial #Oiligarchy #USPol #TrumpSucks

2025-12-17

#ScienceTalk #climate #ClimateScience #petrostates #ClimateBrawl #ClimateDenial #FossilPropaganda #disinformation #misinformation

"There are more lies than number of days in the year"[M.I.]

Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #GeraldKutney

"Hope doesn't solve problems. Action does."
"...what we can do is fight like hell to NOT have so called political climate denialists elected into office [...] and to do our best to REDUCE DEMAND" [G.K.]

youtube.com/watch?v=nHhGNftaZ1Q

2025-12-17

“If true, public safety is at risk & #science is being attacked,” said Polis. “#ClimateChange is real, but the work of NCAR goes far beyond #climate science. NCAR delivers data around severe #weather events like #fires & #floods that help our country save lives & property, & prevent devastation for families.”

#Trump #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #wildlife #plantlife #ecosystems #science #conservation

2025-12-17

Trenberth, who joined #NCAR in 1984 & officially retired in 2020, said the #research center is key to advanced #climate #science discoveries as well as in informing the climate models that produce the #weather forecasts we see on the nightly news.

#Colorado Gov #JaredPolis (D) said in a statement that the state had not received information about the #Trump admin’s intentions to dismantle NCAR.
#ClimateDenial #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #wildlife #ecosystems #conservation

2025-12-17

The #NCAR laboratory in Boulder was founded in 1960 at the base of the Rocky Mountains to conduct #research & educate future scientists. Its resources include #supercomputers, valuable datasets & high-tech research planes.​

Its dismantling would be a major loss for scientific research, said Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished scholar at NCAR & an honorary academic in physics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

#Trump #ClimateDenial #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #science #conservation

2025-12-17

#Trump admin to dismantle key #climate #research center
#Project2025 architect #RussVought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget [#OMB], announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research [#NCAR] in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “climate alarmism.”

#ClimateDenial #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #wildlife #plantlife #ecosystems #science #conservation
washingtonpost.com/climate-env

Another recent piece by Nuccitelli in Yale Climate Connections: Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change -- Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.

yaleclimateconnections.org/202

#ClimateChange #YaleClimateConnections

#ClimateDenial #JoeRogan #misinformation #charlatan #disinformation

2025-12-10

"This is no time to be driven by ideological rigidity" say the car washers, cartoon villains*, insurance, and crash repair companies demanding 100% of lanes remain a car-dominated shitshow. #transit #climateDenial #Portland #TriMet (* "metro chamber of commerce" was "Portland business alliance" until that name became synonymous with cartoon villainry)

bikeportland.org/2025/12/08/61

2025-12-09

Another good article by #WillBunch. We are frogs in a fascist pot. No one woke up and suddenly realized they were living in fascism in 1930's Germany, no matter how clear history makes it look. It is a long slow process, enabled only be good people who don't want to start trouble.

#fascism
#murder
#ClimateDenial

archive.is/95XsM

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2025-12-09
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2025-12-08

It's done: here we are The USA are lying on governmental sites about the human origins of climate change #climatechange #climatedenial #disinformation #agnotology #neofascism #AMERICANFREESPEECHEIL !

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mgsd4sw4nfxjbrhxeecohrxa/post/3m7iwb25ybs25

Climate exhausts us,
but keep pushing—it won't rest
until we do not.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #relentless #ClimateDenial

Lats (314 ppm)Lats@aus.social
2025-11-16

Got another email from Liberal HQ. This one spruiks their recent decent into madness. This quote sums up their climate change denial disconnect “And now, as a grandmother, I think about the world we are leaving to the next generation.” As a grandfather I worry a lot about the same thing and investing in fossil fuels is not my solution.
#lnp #climatedenial #fossilfuels #climatewreckers

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