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Climate Change 3: Whatever you do don't call it a twatwaffle

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What’s wrong with Wrexham? I know about the show, but other than the jealousy and hilarious owners, what’s wrong?
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They’re just a standard English lower division team with rich owners pumping them with money. Heck, they’re not even the only ones in their league. Salford City is owned by a group of former Manchester United players including David Beckham. The only difference is that the Wrexham owners have a documentary crew following them around.

Plus, everything about it is BS. They already had the documentary planned before they even thought about buying Wrexham. Wrexham just happened to be the team available for them to buy. They wanted the “story”, it didn’t matter where it actually happened. And the “story” is BS too, you outspend your opponents by magnitudes of course you’re going to win.

And yeah, I dislike Americans (and Canadians) that invest in foreign clubs. The sport in this country absolutely needs investment in the lower levels. But, investing in a team in Scranton or Ottawa doesn’t make for a good documentary series so I guess it’s no good.
 
I encourage you to look up Leominster, MA. The town got up to 10" of rain the other day. It's an absolute mess. Neighborhoods are islands. Many, may sinkholes under roads. The MBTA Commuter Rail line damaged.

A local meteorologist yesterday said that the conditions for such a storm happen about every 200 years somewhere in the northeast, and the actual dumping of that much rain happen every handful of times the conditions are right. So basically, this is like a thousand year storm for the whole region.
 
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I encourage you to look up Leominster, MA. The town got up to 10" of rain the other day. It's an absolute mess. Neighborhoods are islands. Many, may sinkholes under roads. The MBTA Commuter Rail line damaged.

A local meteorologist yesterday said that the conditions for such a storm happen about every 200 years somewhere in the northeast, and the actual dumping of that much rain happen every handful of times the conditions are right. So basically, this is like a thousand year storm for the whole region.
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It really is hard to imagine that kind of rain. We had a stationary microburst a few years back in GDO and got something like 4" of rain in under an hour. I saved the radar animation because it was so insane.

Had to be one of the more frightening weather events of my life. The water just kept coming. I wasn't afraid for my life so much as the property. My flat yard was mostly covered in about an inch or so of standing water. Thankfully it was only a few blocks in size. No damage but doubling that in the wrong geography and widespread is really scary.
 
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Swifties have had a rough weekend in South America. You can see Taylor having issues breathing while performing. A fan died at the last concert, and the continued high temps prompted her to postpone yesterdays show.
 
The next generation of environment-destroying scumbags. Can't wait for them to become involved in politics.

(T)he company’s list of alleged malfeasances has grown almost cartoonishly long. It generates enormous greenhouse gas emissions. Multiple reports have uncovered ties to illegal deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has investigated JBS for “callous disregard for workers’ health,” and the company has been investigated and fined by both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition to all this, the environmental advocacy organization Mighty Earth wrote in an extensive 2022 report on the company that JBS has been “linked to bribery, price-fixing, pollution, worker exploitation, and allegations of selling tainted meat.”
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They aren't nuts. In terms of math, they are correct. By Peter Singer ethics, climate change will cost so many lives virtually any action to stop it is justified. If we could stop climate change by nuking a major city, or destroying the Mona Lisa, it would be worth it.

But we can't, and their actions only make it harder to fight the interests who are keeping us speeding along the highway to climate hell. Everything else in their calculus is right. They're doing less damage than fighting a civil war to end slavery, so if they were making progress it would be worth it.

But, they aren't.
 
I don’t need to be lectured, I’ve done grad programs on climate science.

I just hate what they do because they turn people off rather than helping show people what is happening. I said they were nuts, not that they were wrong.
 
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Fox News tweet:

“Touchdown: Taylor Swift lands in Baltimore ahead of AFC Championship, jet belches tons of C02 emissions”

…they’re acknowledging emissions!

(she is an eco terrorist)
 
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