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El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather | Meteorologists predict it will be the strongest of century, UN secretary-general calls it ‘urgent climate warning’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 37 points 5 months ago (5 children)

At which point do we rename it to El Hombre

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    My outdated gender stereotypes suggest la mujer goes first

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    • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Anyone else notice that recently once in a century events happen every season?

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    • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    "Urgent climate warning"

    Warnings are useless if you don't heed them, take some fucking action ffs

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I did. I stopped using plastic straws and I don't use hairspray and I don't commute to work and I recycle... You know, I just can't shake the guilt of my actions. I just need to do more. If I had a private jet, I would stop flying on it.

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    • [–] 29 points 5 months ago

    Alright, who used plastic straws this time?

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Maybe we should bomb an oil refinery

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    That causes a lot of local harm. You get a wide variety of oil byproducts dumped on all the people within a few miles of the refinery and if it used HF as a catalyst, you may immediately kill a huge number of people. Graceful shutdown is far preferable

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    We've been trying to gracefully shut them down for 50 years.

    I think the short term consequences outweigh the long term consequences of not doing it.

    But it probably makes more sense to target the boats trying to pickup the oil from the refineries, while they're empty. Yemen and Iran have shown the efficacy of underwater suicide drones.

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Good thing NOAA has sensors in the ocean to track and study these things.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Big storm hitting the Gulf during a global gas shortage?

    Would be a fun week for the market

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

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