Some commenters link the changes to fossil fuels and AI energy demand
3 Sep 12 11:28 PM · 11d ago · 19 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 3
A subset of replies pointed to oil companies and the diversion of attention and investment toward AI and data centers as factors overshadowing climate concerns, including warnings about a major glacier's collapse.
“ExxonMobil smiles and shrugs, along with many others.”
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People in charge of worried about how they can get the maximum return on investment from AI, but aren't concerned about collapsing of the world's MOST IMPORTANT & CONSEQUENTIAL glacier. Called the Doomsday glacier for a reason BY YEARS END, likely.
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MN here, can confirm. I may just scream at the next person that tells me how great it is when it’s 70 in December. NO ITS FUCKING NOT!!
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Same here in Utah. We used to have "The Greatest Snow on Earth!" It's really sad that people refuse to WTF up, until they realize they don't have water to bathe.
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I'm in the Columbia Gorge & can see Mt Hood & Adams. Neither of them got decent snow last year & won't this year if it stays too warm. They both looked like huge naked rocks until they got snow the other day & hopefully now as it's raining here at river level.
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I remember when summer started on July 5th. I remember when the rainy season started Oct 1st. I remember when we got one good lowland snow every year…sometimes right at Christmas. I remember when we got a huge windstorm, like clockwork, every Thanksgiving Day.
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Same thing in MN. I get so mad when my fellow citizens talk about how great it is when it’s 60 in December and they can still be golfing. No, no it’s not great. We’re supposed to have snow in December.
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What does a Tubbs, a Nuns, a Kincaid, a Glass, and a Walbridge have in common? They are all wildfires I’ve had to endure since 2017. Five in the last nine years…so far.
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Mt. Shasta, near where I grew up, always had permanent glaciers that stopped being permanent several years ago. Rivers that were too cold for algae to flourish became covered in algae. Mosquito sightings in FEBRUARY & at 3,400 feet altitude! Shocking & alarming if you know how to read the signs!
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I'm middle aged and twenty years ago I was talking with an old timer who told me back in the 40's, lakes in WA used to freeze, so they had old cars sunk in them from people driving on them. This was not the case in my lifetime... This much change in under a century is a warning.
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Every year I made sure my kids had snowsuits and boots that fit them because every year in Northern Virginia we had at least one good dumping of snow…usually 2. Now…if we get snow it melts the next day as the temperature shoots up to the 60-70’s. Bonkers!
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I have been to Seattle multiple times in the last 20 years and not once have I encountered rain. The expectation that Wahington state sees a lot of rain is outdated & just plain wrong, in my experience.
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The past few years I had to start watering the garden in April. Trees that used to make it through the mid-July to mid-September dry spell just fine now need supplemental water all summer. These teaser weather apps saying it is going to rain don't help with the sad because it doesn't actually rain.
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It is sad. I mourn the loss of the climate we were accustomed to. It’s a horrendous loss. And it’s too late now to do anything to change it.
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Same down in Eugene and we actually usually get more rain than Seattle.
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Well Jared, I’ve been at this every day for 50 years and nobody gives a shit 😪🌎 Al Gore told us exactly what is about to happen and the billionaires think they can survive this with 8 billion less mouths to feed… 🤔AI They will be defeated, but billions will die Good luck, seats are limited
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Some historians note parallels between the bronze age collapse and our current day, among those factors being climate change. The main difference now is our technology. But because of climate change during that time, there were a lot of climate refugees that eventually became the Sea Peoples. 
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What's not funny, is that this is the first time I've heard this, probably because a big fat orange baby-man is hogging the limelight. Keep telling it until we listen!
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My area in Texas just had a brief rain for the first time in months, you could smell everything just trying to take in every drop of moisture
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As an avid Salish Sea boater, I'm kinda digging the new Mediterranean climate...but I'm going to miss the resident Orca. And the oysters.
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Seriously too late. They reckon if we hit net zero the Southern Ocean will start to release stored co2. We're fucked.
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I was in Seattle two weeks ago. Lots of brown crispy grass. Unseasonably dry weather. Not good.
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And the reason I bring it up is because many of them were ordinary people who were just trying to survive (according to remain remaining records) I wonder if the modern day equivalent will be some of us finally going after the wealthy through different technological means, on a global scale. 🤷🏻♀️
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When I was there in March the news counted how long it had been since it rained. While I chuckled deep down I knew the implications: Cut down the rain forest and you get no rain. Duh. It snowed while I was there, which surprised everyone. Nice being the only one who knew how to drive in it though! 😂
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When I lived in Seattle back in the 1990s, there was a June where I had to sleep under my warmest comforter. The wet cold got into your bones. I'm so sorry to hear that rainforest microclimate is shifting. New Hampshire is having a drought, too. We don't get much rain/snow anymore like the old days.
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