There are very different forms and levels of that. If people are doing shibboleths and understand it as such, that’s harmless. Same goes for sticking together in a world that’s hostile because of their ancestry.

Average religious individual doesn’t either. The kind of thing you’re doing would happen to a much smaller extent without some of the religious groups involved.

It’s part of it. Religious groups do a bunch of community building that just doesn’t happen so easily outside of them. A lot of people are involved for that, rather than an epistemic view.

My understanding is that it won’t be there next April

You need both adaptation and cutting emissions to zero at this point: it’s possible to do enough damage that adaptation isn’t really possible

Hard not to be when you get to buy nice mansions with those donations.

It’s not so much about being faith-based as having a dark ages approach to epistemology, where “truth” is a social construct rather than something which is an inherently property of the universe, and where the strength of evidence is how you figure out what it is

So the first set of them were greenhouse gas concentration pathways, so modeling included feedbacks like ice-albedo, but not ones which resulted in additional fossil fuel use.

Current approaches are shared socioeconomic pathways rather than representative concentration pathways.

Still not perfect because people won’t actually follow any such path exactly; it’s a lot harder to predict human behavior than physics

The pay is actually not that great. The money is all in the gratuities

Trump gave a speech about it, so he was involved in a way that made oil industry investors trust that he would honor his side of the deal.

He was able to competently negotiate a bribe from the oil industry in exchange for suppressing any attempt to stop burning fossil fuels.

The press does a lot of sanewashing though.

Weight and mileage to be honest

RCP 8.5 involved a greater increase in fossil fuel use than actually happened.

Not that much compared with the national average which fluctuates a bit, but is around 13,500 miles per year

They’re not idiots; it’s just that the oil industry patronage machine controls a majority of Congress

The average American drives a lot, and does so in a large and inefficient vehicle

I’d love to see a quantification of how the current shipping disruption compares with the impact of the low-sulfur bunker fuel standard that went into effect a few years back.

More corrupt than dumb. The Supreme Court legalized “gratuities” for public officials so now a ton of Republicans are out to collect as many as they can.

I think they need to get the state government where he is located to agree to extradite him. Used to be completely routine except for accusations of being a doctor who provided medical care to women

Up until this war they had access to Chinese exports, which include both solar panels and wind turbines