Climate Change (fka man-made global warming)

[GORDON]

OK, but don't you have missing feeling in your feet?

Not so much. Been doing that stuff since my teens, though. High school karate instructor used to have us go out in the snow barefoot and do forms.

Southerners are just really soft about cold.

[Leisher]

OK, but don't you have missing feeling in your feet?

The cold, particularly at 32 degrees, doesn't work like that.

We're not kidding about the teens. You genuinely don't even notice unless it's windy.

[Leisher]

Wait. I'm a child of the 80s and remember aerosols being bad. What changed?

[GORDON]

Literally the opening of the apocalyptic movies "Matrix," and "Snowpiercer."

"Nah this time it will prolly work."

[TheCatt]

Wait. I'm a child of the 80s and remember aerosols being bad. What changed?

There are MANY, MANY aerosols in the world

An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas.

and the ones you remember had CFCs which destroyed the ozone layer.

Literally the opening of the apocalyptic movies "Matrix," and "Snowpiercer."

Yeah.

[Leisher]

Yes, I remember CFCs are bad (China still makes them, FYI), but I didn't know they were in those aerosols. Thanks.

But yeah, this doesn't seem like a great plan. If man-made global warming is really going to end humanity, you'd think the governments would crack down on the actual polluters, the corporations, and stop trying these bullshit hail marys that really won't do shit.

[Leisher]

Something to think about as you are told that your plastic straw is killing the environment by climate change activists on social media and using AI.

[TheCatt]

You should really test water pressure on an outdoor line that's not necessarily constrained by a pressure valve for the house or at the meter.

[Cakedaddy]

I'm betting those people are on a well. Thus the contamination. Therefore, no meter, and probably no pressure valve. I wondered if they considered a new pump, or a new well. Either their well is dry, or their pump is failing. Not sure why a building next door would cause low pressure. I guess it could also be clogging their pipes with that stuff that's in the water.

[TheCatt]

Fair, I keep forgetting that wells exist.

[Leisher]

She's not wrong. It's "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf", but on a larger scale.

[Leisher]

April 19th, 2025 - Antarctica Ice Sheet rebounding for the first time in decades.

May 20, 2025 - The world's ice sheets are melting and we're all going to die.

It'd be cool if both sides were not funded by rich people making gobs of money.

[TheCatt]

Notably, four major glaciers in the Wilkes Land–Queen Mary Land region of East Antarctica reversed their previous pattern of accelerated mass loss from 2011 to 2020 and instead showed significant mass gain during the 2021 to 2023 period.

Thanks, Covid!

[Leisher]

You won't get me to say we shouldn't eliminate a whole lot of people.

[Leisher]

Hawaii passes first ever "green law" that will tax tourists to offset their climate footprint.

Conspiracy theorists got another one right.

Also, interesting strategy by Hawaii considering they are already considered a very overpriced vacation destination. The Caribbean islands have to be pretty thrilled about this news.

[Leisher]

This is honestly infuriating.

[Cakedaddy]

But also not surprising. I mean, who still doesn't know they do that?

[Leisher]

True, not surprising.

I remember having recycling ruined for me many years ago by Penn & Teller in their show Bullshit. The only recycling that's actually worth the effort is metal. The rest is just for show and expends more energy/resources than what is being saved.

[Leisher]

Forgot to post this one.

Bill Gates took a big step back on Climate Change.

TLDR: He reversed course and said that it won't kill us all. Some places will be affected, but ultimately, it's not the doomsday they've been saying. His fellow climate change peeps are big mad at him.