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Climate Change

Screenshot of article text reading "The reason, as shown here, is that even a small rightward shift of a bell curve leads to a wildly disproportionate increase in the number of extreme climate events." Below is a chart titled "Future Climate Shift" with two bell curves, a gray "Current climate" and a black "Future climate" shifted right. Labels: "Probability of occurrence", "Increase in average temperature", "Less… Hand-drawn comic titled "CLIMATE CHANGE: A TIMELINE" with the credit "@SEMI_RAD". A long horizontal bar is split into colored sections. The wide light blue section is labeled ""CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T REAL"". The larger orange section is labeled "OK, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE'RE JUST NOT CONVINCED IT'S CAUSED BY HUMANS". A small dark red-brown section is labeled "OOPS". The tiny yellow end section is labeled "FUCK". Screenshot of a tweet from jaboukie young-white (@jaboukie), with a profile photo of a smiling man with a mustache. The tweet reads: "millennials killed department stores" baby boomers killed the polar bears but right right right my deepest apologies to jc penny. Posted 6/4/17, 10:23 AM from Brooklyn, NY. Reply from c-bassmeow: This is amazing A huge dark tidal wave towers over a seaside city of apartment buildings. A white arrow from a box reading "CLIMATE CHANGE" points at the wave. Speech bubbles from the buildings say "Healthcare!", "Immigration!", "Guns!", "Free school!", "Justice!" and "Legal weed!" A black poster with a 3x3 grid of dim night cityscapes under dense starry skies and the Milky Way. Top text: "These photograhs by Thierry Cohen show us what we would see at night if there were no light pollution." Labels: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Tokyo. Bottom text: "This week is International Dark Skies Week. Please show your support by lighting… Black-and-white cartoon of a ragged man sitting by a small campfire in a barren wasteland, telling three rapt, ragged children. A ruined city skyline is faint in the background, and an empty tin can lies nearby. Caption: "At the time, we thought that Hillary's use of email was the most important thing to consider." Screenshot of a Stellaris event window titled "Mass Extinction: Frozen" showing a painted icy landscape with a futuristic base. Text: "An unnatural shift in the atmosphere's chemical make-up resulted in the slow but irreversible onset of an ice age - one that began before the formation of the Terran Regency and is likely to persist long after our passing. The exact cause remains unknown, but probable explanations…