Kevin Stephens

'If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun'.

Trying to make sense of a complex and rapidly changing world.

[Nigella Lawson @Nigella_Lawson]

Do read this message below

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Number of Florida houses for sale just skyrocketed.

What are the odds these are all Airbnb rentals with owners who are about to declare bankruptcy?

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

You have to hand it to human ingenuity. This is some view!!

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

Hurricane Milton hits Florida - as seen from space.

Abundant lightning can be seen in southern Florida, where numerous tornadoes occurred today. #hurricane #florida #HurricaneMilton

Details: This video contains visible (band 2) and lightning (group energy density) imagery from the GOES-16 weather satellite. It spans the five hour period from 15:00 to 21:11 UTC on 10/09/24 via CIRA

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@haleypauthor Ok. That's good. Not up all night then? I tend to get up at 5.30am. lol

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

It's an iron law of human behaviour:
The larger the body of evidence a person must deny to preserve their beliefs, the crazier their alternative explanations become.
https://t.co/h15WAQPqzG

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@stop_fossil_fue 100% agree with your approach.
However, what 'needs to be done' needs systems thinkers who do not solve one problem in one place by removing it and often making ity bigger somewhere else.

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@postcarbonsteve Anyway, what's for tea?

Seriously, though, how do we cut through to the average citizen?

We need to get beyond ' an environmental spokesman said' ................

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

Nice analogy.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”

Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”

Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”

Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Hurricane Milton is not "the storm of the century". It is just the beginning. Unless we stop pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, such devastating events will become commonplace - and ever more horrific.

[Dave Vetter @davidrvetter]

With Hurricane Milton threatening to swamp Tampa, it's a great opportunity to enjoy one of the greatest responses to climate science denial of our age. From @Hbomberguy

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

"As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse."

😬 Read that twice!

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

No, it’s already irreversible. However hot it gets is how hit it will stay for generations. And the level of heat is what drives all the impacts such as storms. We are in damage minimization mode. Which is still crucial.

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@99blackbaloons @tessawoodmanse2 100%

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@Belle4Green @pmagn I agree. But it's no longer about solving a crisis. It's bracing for impact to save what we can?

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@PerfumeYou @pmagn Almost as bad as the reality-mongering?

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

@EliotJacobson 'I don't have a remedy for idiocy'
Love it.

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

When are we going to start naming storms with oil company names. E.g Hurricane Exxon.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Hurricane Milton is undergoing one of the fastest rapid intensifications ever observed in the Atlantic.

It is now a 155 mph Category 4 storm, just 2 mph shy of Category 5 status.

Not a single weather model predicted the storm would strengthen this quickly.

[Kevin Stephens @stephens111]

Brutal. The stuff we put into the atmosphere is not just CO2, which we seem.fixated upon.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

The world we were born into no longer exists