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Facebook comments: Well obviously it was taken in the SUMMER 😂🤣😆 Morons global warming is all fear mongering!

Yes Jim. It’s very normal that entire glaciers disappear, regularly in fact, every year. You are so smart, much smarter than all of the scientists who are panicking.

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Ummm…. There’s people right here on lemmy saying the same dumb shit about summer. Don’t think for a second that lemmy doesn’t host some of the exact same idiots Facebook does.

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Good news is that many instances on Lemmy are less tolerant to alt-right trolls and climate deniers. Best to use that report function so your admins, or even better, their admins, can snipe them.

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Good idea. Though I generally don’t like to over-use the report function.

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We are all humans, we are all dumb. A smart human isn’t one who knows everything, they’re one who knows what they don’t know and knows who knows that. And, ya know, defers to the people who know about things when they don’t.

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The only issue that really matters to me is climate change. Or maybe plastic.

But this is the same as the picture of the statue of liberty that is used to “debunk” sea level rise by showing the level at the same height, despite being taken 100 years apart. Were they taken at the same tide? Same time of year? Is there any other factor at play here?

This is a “shoe is on the other foot” moment, and we should be as skeptical of that which supports our beliefs as we are of that which contradicts it. Maybe especially so because confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

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2 points

Glaciers don’t change with a full moon.

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And I never said they did.

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6 points

Reddit comment: Shaving does make your dinghy look bigger!

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Also, the sunlight suggests it’s summer in the first photo (or at least not winter).

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92 points

crazy to think that guy has been on that boat for over 100 years

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He clearly switched boats.

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13 points

Boat of Theseus

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7 points

Nah, he just slowly upgraded and remodel on the spot. The guy never moved from that spot. 🤥

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4 points

No boat would live that long…

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81 points

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

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25 points

Thanks, emissionschads!

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70 points

Thank goodness they cleared out all that snow and ice so that we can finally see the pretty mountains.

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35 points

We should put some factories there!

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19 points

This might be silly but we could replace the ice with trash?

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8 points

We might have to workshop this, but I feel like there’s a good idea in there somewhere

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6 points

Already working on it, my dudes.

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6 points

While were at it we should also put a 50 lane highway

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56 points

At least we got some space to build car centric suburbia, eh? /s

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21 points

More room to pollute! 🥳🥳🥳

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11 points

Maybe there’s oil under there!

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4 points

Then it would need liberation and a hefty dose of freedumb!

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1 point

Or coal?

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1 point

Send America, STAT!

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5 points

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It depends what. Plastic recycling is mostly a scam/fraud and does not fix nor change much.

The industry has long known that plastics recycling is not economically or practically viable, the report shows. An internal 1986 report from the trade association the Vinyl Institute noted that “recycling cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution [to plastics], as it merely prolongs the time until an item is disposed of”.

In 1989, the founding director of the Vinyl Institute told attendees of a trade conference: “Recycling cannot go on indefinitely, and does not solve the solid waste problem.”

Despite this knowledge, the Society of the Plastics Industry established the Plastics Recycling Foundation in 1984, bringing together petrochemical companies and bottlers, and launched a campaign focused on the sector’s commitment to recycling.

In 1988, the trade group rolled out the “chasing arrows” – the widely recognized symbol for recyclable plastic – and began using it on packaging. Experts have long said the symbol is highly misleading, and recently federal regulators have echoed their concerns.

Cited article, and the report’s source

Recycling paper, metal and glass will help and make a difference, keeping in mind that we need to use less in the first place. However plastic recycling is broken by default, pretty much everywhere.

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Looks like a nice enough spot for a landfill. Get on that, pronto.

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