Speaking as someone who used to be a young Earth creationist, some of us are just born into it and are given lots of tools and incentives to maintain the faith despite, you know, all the evidence

Taking a class on the scientific method and reading a book on rationality was what got me to embrace doubt and decide that I only want to believe in something if it’s true

Love of truth set me free

Yes!

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They deserve it, honestly

You and me both

They kinda bury what the different types of warming are

Type 0: no warming Type 1: warming on upper and lower end equally Type 2: It doesn’t get as cold on average than it used to Type 3: it gets hotter than it used to

We had been suspicious in the previous letters but the em-dashes in this one pretty much confirm it

She’s Elsa from Frozen

Heck yeah

TIL we eat Goliath Bird Eating Spiders and they taste like shrimp

The boomers in my life are starting to come around with it but they believe and combination of

1. it’s not man made
2. it won’t be as bad as people say/we can’t know the future
3. green tech like electric vehicles are too expensive

The first two are frustrating but don’t really matter if we can engineer our way out of three. My dad got solar panels because they would pay for themselves eventually. I’m not saying we can just green tech our way out of the climate crisis but if green tech gets good enough it will go a LONG way

These are just anecdotes from interacting with my family. Your mileage may vary

Oh yeah, that’s a good explanation

While it’s not a good trade you’d rather have gray hair if it meant you didn’t get melanoma

Hey, I’m just hear because I heard climate change is threatening Great Tits

https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8RwvDEQrN/

Oh shit

This is just regular lab safety

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaratia_spinosa

https://xkcd.com/2501/

I started playing games in the 2000s and bought one old game where the default was inverted controls

Trying to play that game broke my brain. I don’t remember if I eventually realized it was a setting I could turn off

It was trying to be hard sci-fi but… It’s still a bit magical