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Humans are genetically engineered to ignore climate crisis: a long term, abstract threat is not going to filter through the immediate focus of proximity bias, and global solutions are not going to be realized through tribalism. Add religion and populism with erosion of trust in science... Nope.

The oligarchs use media all the time to sell their brands. They are masters of corporate media - the dominant media. Wresting control has been done, can be done... but the question then is whose vision fills the void. The modern world mostly wants to believe the propaganda offered. I recommend these

Climate change denialism is an interesting study in human psychology. It has so many facets— far more than other types of denialism. Most interestingly, you have the huge financial power of the fossil fuel industry pushing out climate change denialist disinformation.

Lot a stuff buried in peoples preferred outcomes. Planet is going to do what it will do with terrible consequences for living creatures ☹️

"silly" or deliberate bad faith? some may be fools, but I suspect far more are knaves

Interesting how the areas with positive anomalies in 1976 are generally in the same locations as now, except that now they are much more extreme. Off the scale even...

I'm old enough to remember the summer of 1976. I was doing geology fieldwork in June in western Austria. While it was hot and dry there (see image), I was at least a few 100 m up, which helped. My family in the Netherlands was getting fried, they'd never experienced anything like it.

They are still arguing over the meaning of the word "hottest" on Twitter lol.

No one, including me, wants to admit that everything they know will end. Soon.