• hector@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    Geoengineering should be outlawed, and just because it is presented to you in a way that they also didn’t pick a fight with oil companies that they would not win and can’t do it is stupid, really shows a person’s own lack of intelligence if they reject this because of that. No fucking Wonder we are in this place as a country. Jesus fucking Christ.

  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip
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    8 days ago

    So let me get this straight, the bill acknowledges climate change is bad, GHG emissions cause climate change, but then targets everything but the root cause of the problem? Really amazing work they’re doing out there in Arizona.

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      3 days ago

      it took a while until people agreed the earth is not flat. different century, different level of media influence. but just saying.

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      3 days ago

      Outlawing geo engineering is not stupid. Castigating doing so is because they did not pick a fight with oil they would lose badly 10x over is stupid.

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    8 days ago

    I’m telling you guys, Republicans are aliens from another world that prefer a warmer Earth.

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      3 days ago

      You say that yet you are here mocking one of the only good things they have done because it was presented to you in a way that oh they didn’t pick a fight with oil companies to do something they have no power to do. Is this argument you guys are castigating them for here?

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          Paying billionaires’ companies to spray aerosols to block the sun while continuing business as usual is an arrogant hubristic folly. The unintended consequences of which we cannot know.

          These states are admittedly worried about chemtrails first, idk about that but geo engineering is very real.

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            2 days ago

            I don’t disagree with you, but it also seems absurd to prevent deployment of mitigation strategies while simultaniously ingoring, maybe even encouraging, CO2 emissions. Hence my joke that they’re aliens.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    How does that even work? The only way I know to change the weather is with the Clear Skies shout — in Skyrim (a video game).

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    7 days ago

    What about planting trees to offset carbon? When does an artificial forest start to count as Geo engineering?

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    8 days ago

    What about Jewish space lasers? All of their representatives are in Israel’s pocket so I’m sure they’ll be exempt