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Mel Gibson is sad because all his Nazi memorabilia burned.

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You don’t even have to investigate the science or anything. Just use your own brain and eyeballs.
I was looking at old family photos of when I was a child, under 10. It was snowing on Christmas Day. On multiple christmases.
I can’t even remember a time in the last 2 to 3 decades it’s snowed correctly in winter let alone December and bang on Christmas. Sometimes it snows in may.
Also when we keep getting record setting heatwaves in summer… hello?
The cult of do your own research managing to not do their own research in the slightest.
- Just use your own brain and eyeballs.
  When I was coming up learning about the long slow path of climate change, it was "We have to act now, because by the time you can readily see the effects with your eyes, we'll be fucked cause it'll be too late by then."
  Whelp here we are. All we can do now is mitigate the damage however we can.
  
  Such a shame.
  Back in the 90s the though of the ozone hole in Australia being fixed seemed an impossibility to me but then it was solved with governments agreeing to ban CFCs etc
  I thought perhaps we could fix the change in climate.
  But then social media was birthed and destroy the minds of everyone starting the slow decline of society. Those with power able to utilise it for their own bidding. Putin et al.
  Now the greedy are in such a position to ruin everything for short term gains.
- Just use your own brain and eyeballs.
  We're going to need something a bit more robust than that I'm afraid. People who fall for conspiracy after conspiracy are using their own brain and eyeballs. Even schizophrenics use their own brain and eyeballs.
  If someone's childhood photos show snow-free Christmases, is that enough for them to declare climate change a hoax?
  People need to understand the scientific method better. What a hypothesis is, the importance of falsifiability. There is no truth in the universe, you can't determine what is true and what is false by looking inside yourself, or by trusting your gut. There is no truth. That is the universe we live in.
  
  What I meant was people don’t even have to “believe” that science is a thing and climate change is a possibility or not. It just is.
  By remembering back before there was multiple fires and storms per year.
  
  I mean there is no scientific evidence of the existence of any God, it just doesn’t exist, and yet here we are.
  I’m not trying to argue seriously here, just pointing out that you sure have a lot of faith in humanity when there is no evidence to show it is a species worth saving
- Damn straight. In Australia we have massive fires every fucking year. When I was a kid it might have been one or two per decade. I remember large flocks of birds flying overhead in mornings and afternoons - none of that happens now. Insect diversity has fallen. National Parks almost look like graveyards of previously thriving forest, it's just depressing. In Victoria over half a national park just burnt out because rainfall has been low for 20 years and there just isn't enough moisture around to stop fires from spreading rapidly. Shit's fucked, and it's going to get worse.
  
  In 2006 when we were driving to field works (picking up melons), the windshield would be covered in insects
  When i am driving now (admittedly, in a different place), my windshield is pristine clear
  
  So sad. Australia has been #1 on my list of places to visit or move to since I was a kid.
  As a country that is surely on the forefront of preventing climate change, have you seen somewhat a reversal or outright denial in the last 10 years?
- Even here when I was a lid 15 years ago. We had snow each winter. At least 30-50cm so basically perfect snow cover. The last time we had that much snow was probably 2014. After that it was either rain or nothing at all. Or it started snowing bit then next day rain took it all. I used to love winter but now it's just depressing without any snow at all.
- Maybe it's exaggerated but I remember making a snowball as big as I was when I was a child (I was always taller than anyone else in my class, I am 197cm now).
  I don't remember the last time we had proper snow around christmas
  
  In the early 90s I got stuck at my grandparents’ house for weeks. The snow was so deep that my dad was able to throw us off of a 15ft porch into the snow.
  We dug tunnels all around the yard and built igloos.
  Every year as a child I made snowmen. Every. Single. Year.
  The snowman was standing from December to February.
  My wife made a snowman with the kids, it was melted by the next afternoon.
  
  I grew up in Ohio in the '70s. The first snowfall was usually in late September and the ground would be completely covered with snow sometime in October. The mounds of snow thrown up by the plow trucks would be 6-8 feet high and we built elaborate tunnel networks in them. We didn't see hints of grass until late April and the snow wasn't completely gone until May or sometimes even early June. Ohio still gets hit with winter these days, but nothing like that.
- Most people (I hope, I don't tune in too much) deny that the climate is changing. They just deny that human activity is causing it.
  So they see all the wildfires and hurricanes and heatwaves and biodiversity collapse and coral bleaching and give a big shrug and "eh, whaddyagunnadoaboutit"
  
  I mean, almost none of it is caused by the average citizen, we should change it from "human caused" to "corporate caused" to make sure the blame is readily placed where it should be.

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