“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Meanwhile, according to the IEA, renewables investments exceed those in fossil fuels since +/- 2022 [1], and are expected to be the top electric power generator by 2026 [2].
The Trump administration is basically following Kodak's strategy from the early 00s.
Ironically climate will also rewrite the US and the rest of the world in return. More so that we are losing several important years because the US as a big contributor is now governed by complete climate deniers. Currently having the hottest summer so far, but coolest summer we will see at the same time is something I hoped to never experience.
Now do China. Four times the emissions of Europe and USA combined with no end in sight. Building 1000 coal power plants over the next two years. But do go on with your usa bashing because that's your actual motivation
Coal plants may still be getting installed, but relatively(!) little coal gets burned in them, because PV is just so much cheaper these days.
EV transition is also a big deal there. For all that the American (and European) car industry complains about dumping, the Chinese just buy those same EVs without any of the tariffs adding to the prices.
Practical issues remain with emissions due to metal refining, but those seem tractable, and solutions are already getting deployed outside research labs.
Still, big unsolved issues remain with emissions from concrete (IIRC the work there is currently lab research), and the scale of change needed is ~"everything everywhere except *grassland*" or ~"everything everywhere except North Korea".
No we never moved past that because the weather isn't getting more extreme. What happened is the left repeat this claim over and over, so people came to believe it. But where's the evidence?
For people who don't Fucking Love Science!™ and think climatologists are corrupted by profit, what's the killer argument that weather is getting more extreme.
Correct. This shows decreased droughts and increased flooding. Do you expect increased droughts from increased global temperatures? If so, why? Most of the world's surface is water, more heat means more water in the air.
The new regime wants to deny and erase history. We know better. Their core 25% or so of the population will always believe that Science is bad and "unGodly", there is nothing we can do about that. Luckily the internet is forever and we can undo it relatively quickly after the Orange Man is gone from influencing anyone other than his 20% or so. They will always worship him and follow the antiscience, antilogic, ego and emotionally driven philosophy he holds.
"Then they went back to the barn, and there, sure enough, painted on the wall, it said: 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.' And underneath, in slightly smaller letters, it said: 'Sheets are a human invention.'"
As am environmentalist, I've talked to many people not living in the US who are losing hope on humanity because of this kind of constant stream of news coming out of the US.
I understand how it happens, but I'd hope people understood that Trump's USA is not the world. Just like people in general know not to extrapolate what Putin's administration is doing in Russia, they need to be able to do the same for the USA. At the moment, in my opinion, both administrations are lost causes, and you can just choose to follow, support and advocate many other positive signals around the world.
1. There has always been town-destroying wildfires every summer. It's always been like that.
2. It has always been the case that AC units were necessary for a human to survive an american summer. I mean, look at native americans, they always had AC units!
3. Los Angeles always flash flooded 10 feet up across every summer.
4. America has always been at war with Canada.
5. Wildfire smoke across the sky for the whole damn summer? Always been thus. What do you mean, blue?
Doctored Epstein vid. Inflation data full of estimates. Firing the guy that delivered bad job data. Shutting down monitoring satellites. Releasing modified constitutions. Now this
…US really is going all in on detaching from reality
The instruction manual called "1984" arrived forty years late.
But the insurance companies are in the know. House insurance rates are raising a lot in many at risk states and areas. Just heard Texas joined that fun.
So seems capitalists involved with insurance and finance know the real facts.
I was about to post the exact same quote. Along with the firing of the statistics chief, this kind of stuff is literally what the protagonist of 1984 did as his day job under the fictional regime.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 61.5 ms ] threadThe Trump administration is basically following Kodak's strategy from the early 00s.
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[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025/exe...
[2] https://www.eco-business.com/news/iea-renewables-will-be-wor...
Perhaps they should write "wide", "100%" or "unquestionable" concensus. I feel not using proper adjectives is undermining this consensus!
You can't make this shit up.
Coal plants may still be getting installed, but relatively(!) little coal gets burned in them, because PV is just so much cheaper these days.
EV transition is also a big deal there. For all that the American (and European) car industry complains about dumping, the Chinese just buy those same EVs without any of the tariffs adding to the prices.
Practical issues remain with emissions due to metal refining, but those seem tractable, and solutions are already getting deployed outside research labs.
Still, big unsolved issues remain with emissions from concrete (IIRC the work there is currently lab research), and the scale of change needed is ~"everything everywhere except *grassland*" or ~"everything everywhere except North Korea".
In this case, nature will not just not be fooled, it will extract retribution, unfortunately also on those that weren't fooled in the first place.
I thought we were past that. I thought that it was now about questioning whether it was human caused, or the size of the impact.
Apparently we really are going back, and revisiting basic arithmetic.
Are storms getting worse? No. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ace-north-atlantic-hurric...
Is drought getting worse? No. https://www.drought.gov/historical-information?dataset=1&sel...
For people who don't Fucking Love Science!™ and think climatologists are corrupted by profit, what's the killer argument that weather is getting more extreme.
The graph you link to does not support your claim.
Trend line has a slope of 0.2845587086 / year increase.
Noisy graph, correlation coefficient is 0.3003115118, but still, it does not support your claim.
> Is drought getting worse? No. https://www.drought.gov/historical-information?dataset=1&sel...
Correct. This shows decreased droughts and increased flooding. Do you expect increased droughts from increased global temperatures? If so, why? Most of the world's surface is water, more heat means more water in the air.
But, as good as that opportunity is, I'm afraid the 3 years this administration has left wouldn't be enough to fully disassemble the US advantage. :)
— Confucius
I understand how it happens, but I'd hope people understood that Trump's USA is not the world. Just like people in general know not to extrapolate what Putin's administration is doing in Russia, they need to be able to do the same for the USA. At the moment, in my opinion, both administrations are lost causes, and you can just choose to follow, support and advocate many other positive signals around the world.
1. There has always been town-destroying wildfires every summer. It's always been like that.
2. It has always been the case that AC units were necessary for a human to survive an american summer. I mean, look at native americans, they always had AC units!
3. Los Angeles always flash flooded 10 feet up across every summer.
4. America has always been at war with Canada.
5. Wildfire smoke across the sky for the whole damn summer? Always been thus. What do you mean, blue?
…US really is going all in on detaching from reality
But the insurance companies are in the know. House insurance rates are raising a lot in many at risk states and areas. Just heard Texas joined that fun.
So seems capitalists involved with insurance and finance know the real facts.