Trump was funded by billionaires. Harris was funded by the under $200 crowd.
Climate Inequality: Billionaires emit more carbon in 90 minutes than you will in your lifetime.
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justoffal
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Geez... I didn't realize Bill Gates had fallen so far.
usmcstinger
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And George Soros isn't a Billionaire?
justoffal
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Yeah but...that's different
usmcstinger
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Please explain to me why we still have freezing blizzards during the Winters?
usmcstinger
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The Scientific Organizations do not allow Scientists who refute Climate Change to be included in any scientific journals?
justoffal
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Nope.... They are officially over.
No blizzard has applied for a license to bring blizzard conditions to North America this year..... Therefore there will be none.
ReinyDays
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I can't speak to any refutations ... but there's plenty of scientific papers being published that take a moderate position ... experts who think it's too soon to say whether climate is changing or not ...
It's only the IPCC that doesn't tolerate dissent ... and the parent organization, the United Nations, is strictly political ...
The facts alone ... a 1ºC temperature increase over the 20th Century average ... refutes climate change ... one degree doesn't change weather, it doesn't change average weather, so it doesn't change climate ... as they say in the profession: || ...
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Sounds like what you're saying (please correct me if I misinterpret) is that the man made green house is heating something up and it's unprecedented.There is no worldwide emphasis to stop killing the planet, now doubters and skeptics and selfish assholes all over the world have a champion in the White House.
Sad, but predictiable.
Fifty of the world’s richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over an hour and a half than the average person does in their entire lifetime, a new Oxfam report reveals today. The first-of-its-kind study, “Carbon Inequality Kills,” tracks the emissions from private jets, yachts and polluting investments and details how the super-rich are fueling inequality, hunger and death across the world. The report comes ahead of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, amidst growing fears that climate breakdown is accelerating, driven largely by the emissions of the richest people.
If the world continues its current emissions, the carbon budget (the amount of CO2 that can still be added to the atmosphere without causing global temperatures to rise above 1.5°C) will be depleted in about four years. However, if everyones emissions matched those of the richest one percent, the carbon budget would be used up in under five months. And if everyone started emitting as much carbon as the private jets and superyachts of the average billionaire in Oxfam’s study, it would be gone in two days.
“The super-rich are treating our planet like their personal playground, setting it ablaze for pleasure and profit. Their dirty investments and luxury toys —private jets and yachts— aren’t just symbols of excess; they’re a direct threat to people and the planet,” said Oxfam International Executive Director Amitabh Behar.
“Oxfam’s research makes it painfully clear: the extreme emissions of the richest, from their luxury lifestyles and even more from their polluting investments, are fueling inequality, hunger and —make no mistake— threatening lives. It’s not just unfair that their reckless pollution and unbridled greed is fueling the very crisis threatening our collective future —it’s lethal," said Behar.
The report, the first-ever study to look at both the luxury transport and polluting investments of billionaires, presents detailed new evidence of how their outsized emissions are accelerating climate breakdown and wreaking havoc on lives and economies. The world’s poorest countries and communities have done the least to cause the climate crisis, yet they experience its most dangerous consequences.
Oxfam found that, on average, 50 of the world’s richest billionaires took 184 flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air —producing as much carbon as the average person would in 300 years. In the same period, their yachts emitted as much carbon as the average person would in 860 years.
Billionaires’ lifestyle emissions dwarf those of ordinary people, but the emissions from their investments are dramatically higher still —the average investment emissions of 50 of the world’s richest billionaires are around 340 times their emissions from private jets and superyachts combined. Through these investments, billionaires have huge influence over some of the world’s biggest corporations and are driving us over the edge of climate disaster.
- Jeff Bezos’ two private jets spent nearly 25 days in the air over a 12-month period and emitted as much carbon as the average US Amazon employee would in 207 years. Carlos Slim took 92 trips in his private jet, equivalent to circling the globe five times.
- The Walton family, heirs of the Walmart retail chain, own three superyachts that in one year produced as much carbon as around 1,714 Walmart shop workers.
Is there a chance you could tell me what the current temperature of whatever that's heating is, and what it's temperature was before, and how you know this is unusual?
Do you believe this is emotional for you?
justoffal
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The Sun has an opinion too.
justoffal
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What is this Celsius thing that you speak of?
marvin martian
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Or Zuckerberg, Bezos, Oprah, and Soros! Plus every multimillionaire in Hollywood and silicon valley.
justoffal
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Yeah but..... Well you know!
ReinyDays
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The sciency name is kelvin ... just convert by adding 273 ... so 13ºC = 286 K ... to the fourth power gives 6,690,585,616 ... that might be on the test later ...
justoffal
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I know....I'm just being an asshole lol..... I believe you're speaking of the emissivity formula?
ReinyDays
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Yalp ... it takes A LOT of carbon dioxide to increase temperatures a little ... and one degree is tiny ...
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