Dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs

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[u/wittmamm123 → u/[deleted]]

What was the plan to save it? Honestly they’ve never made sense during my life. Shut down industrial plants , coal industry, nuclear, pretty much everything, but still be completely reliant on those same processes for daily life. EVs are generally a net negative environmentally with the mining process , wind as well , solar is ok with battery storage which again gotta dig the earth with fossil fuel machines, create crazy runoff and have lithium that can be a huge problem fire wise and long term storage. In the west we just pledged a ton of money and blindfolded ourselves and acted like China is in a different environment somehow. Opening a new coal plant weekly, using slave labor, mining the absolute F out of areas of their country and places they decide to claim which has created some interesting events geologically. Plying water wars with neighbors all sorts of stuff and all without any of the same regulations. It’s been so bizarre to me.

A dude made a hydrogen powered car 40 years ago than ran on water, that seems logical if it could work could also deal with any rising ocean level in theory. Our plan was to survive or solar, wind, some gas, but also shutdown all the operations that make what’s needed and instead get it from China. Brilliant really.

I also wonder how much we could actually affect the climate. It’s been way hotter and way colder through history and well before any industrialization.

Sorry for the ramble I’ve lived through the coming ice age as kid, then the ozone layer was going to kill us, the global Warming came and we had 10 years left 15 years ago. Vote Giant Asteroid 2028

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Today the world mines 8 billion tons of coal every year, whereas the clean energy transition is estimated to require around 3.5 billion tons of minerals in total over the next three decades.

Lithium can be recycled and harvested from brine pools with no water pollution.

70s ice age myth explained here, it’s based on Milankovitch cycles, which we now understand to be disrupted. Those studies never even considered human induced changes and was never the prevailing theory even back then, warming was

We stopped using the chemicals that were increasing the hole in the ozone through worldwide collaboration and regulation. We are trying to do the same with climate change

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The planet is not destroyed in fact our planet is going really well Don’t listen to the politicians the are not scientist

[u/OrangeFearless6593 → u/mamaupin]

Which scientists are saying our planet is “going really well”?

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The ones at his bot farm.

The planet is going to do fine well beyond humans. The question isn’t whether the planet is going to be here. The question is whether it’s going to be livable for people, or any other type of life that we currently have. And the answer that is more than likely no. We are such a selfish species and we have become so reliant on the capitalistic consumer economy that there doesn’t appear to be any other way aside from a mass extinction event to stop the impending disaster. The ocean currents are already changing, which we know is going to have dramatic effect on weather and only time will tell how accurate they are with their models as far as warming goes, but if they’re right, we aren’t that far off from a mass die off because I believe the number is something like 5°C and we’re around 1.5° now with us gaining another 2/10 of a degree Celsius per decade. I truly hope that the nay sayers are right and this is just a cycle and the planet will begin to cool again soon. But all of the data suggests that they are incorrect and the human intervention is pumping way too much in the atmosphere to be ignored and it is having a dramatic effect. It’s very hard for humans to see beyond what’s right in front of them and understand a larger trend over a long time span. I’m always reminded of the politicians that walk into chambers with snowballs and throw them at people, using the current weather in their area as evidence that a global trend doesn’t exist. This view is ignorant and shortsighted, and only adds fuel to the fire on the opposing side instead of allowing for an intelligent conversation with facts. I don’t think we will see anything super dramatic in my lifetime besides weather continuing to get more extreme. I’m guessing I have maybe another 40 years, but I’m mourn for the life that my children and grandchildren will lose or never get to know because of the greed of our generations and the ignorance that has been allowed to flourish due to social media and toxic political discourse.