Bummer: “Americans Don’t Take Hotcoldwetdry Doom Seriously”
November 22, 2025 – 5:07 pm
I’ve been saying for over two decades that it’s hard to take it seriously when the people who push it the hardest rarely practice what they preach
Let’s see that article, which has a slightly different headline
The Climate Crisis Needs a New Catchphrase
For half a century, scientists have been warning about the risk of the planet warming by “2 degrees.” It’s a catchphrase that plagues the conversation about climate concerns, including at the United Nation’s COP30 meeting in Belém, Brazil, this month. Take U.N. General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock’s remarks to the press this week, in which she stated that member countries had previously committed to limiting global warming “well below two degrees.” That’s a huge mistake. Well, the math is right. But the wording, at least where Americans are concerned, is dead wrong.
“Two degrees” is a benchmark in Celsius. And the world’s leader in per capita carbon emissions—a leading culprit of the greenhouse gas effect warming the planet—is the United States. Americans speak in Fahrenheit. Many folks are already loath to take action to combat climate change. Thanks to the rallying cry of “2 degrees,” people in the U.S. are likely to mistake the dangerous warming of the planet as happening almost half as slowly.
https://www.thepiratescove.us/2025/11/22/bummer-americans-dont-take-hotcoldwetdry-doom-seriously/
