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A sane head of government, just that akone is priceless but apparently not that common anymore.

Im.no longer sure it can be dealt with, ? I mean if we stopped emitting tomorrow, maube... but even in some fantsy land if a majorty starting voting Green etc ti change policy direction, then it woukd take decades at 10% a year reduxtion (which is a greater annual emissions reduction every year then we saw during the covid shutdowns) and it seems like too many tipping points will have been crossed ?

As the article states we need to reduxe emissions 0.3% a year just to stand still and yet we're still increasing emissions!

This isn't an enginnering or science problem, this is a human behavioural problem.

Telling others about peak oil and limits to growth

Why? To what end ?

Progressives need better social media managers and to not be above playing dirty.

Progressives failing is underestimating the number of stupid people and assuming people are sensible. See 4 below.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

While not all conseatives are stupid, stupid people are nearly always conservative.

"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill

You do know many people are stupid, it's why we're in this mess. Not just Germany but stupidity is ubiquitous.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Not really, see here

https://slrpnk.net/comment/14055964

So, disaster postponed.

Not really, see here

https://slrpnk.net/comment/14055964

There's an interesting article by Professor Stefan Rahmstorf on Real Climate about this, he points out the new study is the same as his, the debate is over what is an AMOC collapse ? not a change in an understanding of the physics.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/02/how-will-media-report-on-this-new-amoc-study/

This new paper does not (and does not claim to) contradict earlier modeling studies about future AMOC changes and their climatic impact, as one of the authors (Richard Wood) has confirmed to me (we are presently both attending an AMOC workshop in Utrecht). It’s the same models, showing the same things – just the wording is different. What previous studies have labelled an ‘AMOC collapse’ is now called ‘no collapse’. It’s essentially a discussion about semantics, not physics. Do you call it an AMOC collapse if a weak and shallow wind-driven overturning persists after the thermohaline part has collapsed? Or not?

Stefan can be found on Mastodon @rahmstorf@fediscience.org

What about cloud syncing ? I have been using Jopln more and more

Not really working and just commenting on stuff they have no expertise in. I'm as skilled at it as tbey are, just not listened to as much :)

So, that counts out religious parents for a start.

Now i am likely on 60,000 ban lists.. Cest la vie.

A frieds gfs , I was clpse to both, he left her, she was distraught, she hugged me ... and my erection, I tired the "move my ass back" thing but i think that made it worse.

Several decades ago now :)