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  1. My personnal feeling is more like:
    - first they went for climate-scientists #climatedenial
    - then secondly they went for scientists and historians, it was at the beginning of COVID19

    Journalists helped to complete the job

    Then they continued, because it worked: Journalists are NOT scientists

  2. I know when as a reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that still allows to be broadcast?



    theguardian.com/environment/20

  3. I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

    #Heatwave
    #ClimateDenial
    #ClimateBreakdown

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  4. I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

    #Heatwave
    #ClimateDenial
    #ClimateBreakdown

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  5. I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

    #Heatwave
    #ClimateDenial
    #ClimateBreakdown

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  6. I know when as a #Guardian reader I’m being wound up like a cheap watch…but is this really the kind of climate denial scientifically illiterate rubbish that #Ofcom still allows to be broadcast?

    #Heatwave
    #ClimateDenial
    #ClimateBreakdown

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  7. @commissionerHR @coe

    We'd like to think rights are inviolable, but they are fragile and borne of stability and surplus. When those are threatened, people get more casual with what they'll do for others.

    Also, the very notion of annual meetings has an inappropriate stability baked in. Climate is accelerating, which means the pace of its wrath is not synchronized to budget cycles or the Earth's leisurely path around the sun.

    At this point, the very notion of an annual meeting about climate is a statement of denial. It is essential to meet as often and for as long as is needed to get serious action. It may be uncomfortable for representatives to ask there host nation or company for resources or calendar time, itself the most precious resource, but if those entities are not up to feeling uncomfortable in service of something larger, then THAT is the key obstacle and the smoking gun of denialism.

    Climate change should be making us uncomfortable. It promises much worse than that, and soon. Discomfort helps to set priorities properly. Smoothing over discomfort admits the acceptability of status quo priorities.

    Ask for semi-annual meetings or the right to variable lengths of time to get real points across and obtain serious commitment.

    Survival of the species is on the line, and too many places in the world are hierarchically arranged so that that will be managed by herd thinning in vain hope that's enough to let our most affluent survive at the expense of others. In other words, kindness and human rights will be the first casualties of a society structured to preserve its sociopathic leaders at all costs.

    And, saddest of all, when the rest are gone, the sociopaths will realize they haven't the skill to do much of anything necessary even for survival, and then they will be gone, too. If I thought we were focused on preserving at least our kindest, or smartest, or hardest working people, I might have hope in this regard. But the ones with the bunkers are none of these things, nor will they be able to keep those bunkers in working order long enough for the planet to recover and humanity to thrive again.

    #climate #ClimateDenial #HumanRights #AnnualMeeting #AnnualMeetings #collapse #extinction #budgets #civilization #civilisation #society #discomfort #surplus #stability

  8. @primonatura

    Expressing targets in absolute terms is an improvement over the gameable ways of expressing things we have now

    But 2050 is unreasonably far away. Civilization could have collapsed by then, or sooner. There is no safe speed to apply needed changes. Any timeline that is not "now, immediately, without delay" risks politicians saying it's deferable or not their job, or saying that whatever unmetered thing they do in the interim, no matter how feeble, is all that's required to set up future success.

    Plus some other nations will not do their part. It matters for everyone to. But everyone must overachieve hugely to cover others' failures.

    We need governments to just say "now, highest priority, all hands on deck, all other considerations secondary". Talk of far off dates, with paced action, is just so much spinning of fairy tales and will get us all killed.

    #climate #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction #politics #ClimateTargets #ClimateTimelines #carbon