“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear.
In a nutshell, NO.
We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb!
#canadaday
There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.
Since I had such a large sample (nearly a hundred), I analyzed X comments by category.
47% said climate wasn't changing, I was lying, ignorant, or not really a scientist
15% said I was in it for the $
14% were insults
Content warning: Please don't read the fine print if you're sensitive.
I already invite people on X to join us here weekly. But thanks to this analysis, I've decided to re-create my "scientists who do climate" list here this summer, and manually invite each of the 3,000 members on X to join us.
If you're still on X, pls consider inviting your followers to join us too!
It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.
See:
Funny how that works when the only strong argument to buy one of his ill-conceived shitty cars is still to lower your personal carbon footprint, in a not-so-friendly enviroment of public transportation
Most that are EV advocates (I'm one) argue, that IF you're going to buy a new car, THEN make it an EV. It's not to sell/junk your current ICE car immediately. Same argument goes for the used market, though used EVs are harder to come by (in the US).
I used to have a Chevrolet Volt (followed its development since 2007). I loved it, especially the nice large hatchback. But after 5 years, I knew I wanted more EV range and pure EV. So my next car was a BEV with 300+ mile range. I've never had any issues, and was nice to kiss gas goodbye.