• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Good luck convincing the rubes that. Literally heard jokes about “global warming” today in the office. Had to say, well its climate change actually and wild shit means its not doing good.

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      7 days ago

      Let them know that they changed the term to “climate change” so that stupid people would understand that the Earth getting hotter on average will make some places colder, because ice that used to be staying put, will now melt into water, which will flow into places where there wasn’t water before.

      That’s about as dumbed down an explanation as is possible, I think, lol.

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        7 days ago

        It shouldn’t have been “save the planet”, it should have been “save the humans” because the planet will be here long after we’re gone

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      8 days ago

      Easy money.

      “It’s cold as fuck because a monster bolus of hot air hit the arctic from the other side of the planet, sent a chunk of the polar vortex down here. Heat directly caused this. Did you have a problem with the word ‘bolus’, or perhaps understanding the Earth is spherical? Was ‘spherical’ too big a word? I can dumb this down if need be.”

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        8 days ago

        Yeah except I myself didnt know that directly either. I just knew that, no, this is because of climate change not in spite of it.