Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
There is a certain poetic justice in Saudi Arabia becoming uninhabitable as a direct result of all the dinosaur juice they dug out from under it.
Although as usual the people responsible will feel no effect as they sit in air conditioned palaces, grifting even more money to try and build a pointlessly long, tall and narrow city.
Nobody wants to chill anymore
Not long before they install sealed, air-conditioned walkways for the well-off.
The others... well, best of luck.
have you seen even pictures of the Grand mosque? I have no doubt that what you described already exists....
This is still in the works: https://kasifiz.com/english/abraj-kudai-the-rising-giant-the-worlds-largest-hotel/
OK, so hear me out. The Saudi king is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. Since the Hajj is now becoming dangerous for the faithful because of climate change, that means that the Saudi king needs to act to protect the Hajj and the Two Holy Mosques. I.e., the Saudi king has a religious responsibility to act on climate change, by clamping down on CO2 emissions and curtailing hydrocarbons extraction. It's the will of Allah, man.
Or he just installs water-fountains
At least in what they say they certainly recognize this. The middle East as a whole talks about climate change much more than the US in my experience, mostly because to them it is an actual existential threat. Money is money so I'm sure they'll keep extracting oil while it makes money, but every single middle Eastern economy's goal has been to diversify from oil for many decades now.
Large mirror arrays to send the heat back into space instead of onto the pilgrims
He'd sooner air condion the whole area.
what's that? they couldn't hear you over the sound of money
🪙 🪙 PARDON?? 💰 💰
Dibs on holy jihad to end climate change
Climate change is a real jihad for sure
Anti-fossil fuel butlerians?
Taylor Swift private jet kamikaze
should switch to midnight services maybe