@arstechnica@mastodon.social
June extremes suggest parts of climate system are reaching tipping points
Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.
this not good news at all but opportunity to change course remains
The oil industry funds:
1. Tax freedom for profitable oil companies
2. Tax subsidies for creating "cancer alley" refineries
3. Fascist political parties
4. Wannabe theocrats like Moms for Liberty
5. Climate inaction
6. Malign influence campaigns to destabilize democracies
7. Climate denialism
8. Putin's genocidal war on Ukraine
9. Global extinction of species, including our own
10. Anti-immigration policies as the number of climate refugees rises
11. Civil rights rollbacks
yea humans need to clue in that in low humidity areas , wildfires are impossible to just put out . British columbia is transitioning from from having lots of wet in the fall winter spring to more desert like . It happened in my life time . Natural climate change happens over thousands to millions of years .
