‘Your heart races a bit’: US weather man threatened with death for mentioning climate crisis

Imagine having a belief that is 100% the opposite of science, a belief which is ONLY beneficial to mega corporations, and threatening someone's life based upon that belief. Sounds like a cult.

As a non American it is always wild to hear such strangely internatilised concepts of how people see the world. This guy received emails saying it was a “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather”, calling climate change a “Biden hoax”. Does someone like that have no concept that this is an issue for the rest of us outside the USA? (Aka the majority of the world). And that it existed for prior administrations too!

It’s crazy to talk to folks with only a couple of grams of brain matter. They say that the weather is changing, but they think magic sky man do it.

Magic sky man scary me no like. Bad man make planet hot because we be naughty.

I used to listen and try to understand when I lived in rural counties in the US. Now all I hear is..

Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

We'll say it again, for the people in the back: it doesn't matter whether you believe in potentially lethal threats or not.

They'll still kill you. And if you ignore them and pretend they don't exist, they'll usually kill you much, much faster than if you were actively trying to mitigate them.

Why do so many conservatives resort to intimidation, "death threats", and violence to reinforce their beliefs? The current Conservative movement seems to be based as much on fear and retribution as anything else. Meanwhile, they get their panties in a bunch when someone calls them "deplorable"....

Can someone explain to me why the average republican/right wing/religious nut are all against climate shit? Aside from being the dumbest people on the planet I'm lost finding another reason

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Literal wankpanzers, the whole lot of "conservatives".

These worthless GOP/Nazi morons are a plague on the universe. They live in a delusional world of stupidity.

It's really weird how in the rest of the world, climate change is an accepted scientific fact. We ain't doing much about it, that's true but at least we aren't straight up denying it like some Americans... what is it with the US always having the dumbest of the dumb? Or maybe they are just super loud?

Idk it's weird.

How pathetic do you have to be up make death threats against a fucking weather man?

I always wonder in these cases where idiots lash out denying climate change that deep down they do it as a coping mechanism, because if they accepted it exists it would quickly weigh down on them how fucked up our environment is.

By denying it they don't have to think about the world about to go to shit. Maybe that's why people still have kids.

People used to do this to witches and others they decide they don't like. Can really see how burning innocent people at a stake could take off in society sadly.

Absolutely astonishing, and yet entirely not surprising at all

Muricans...

Must be from entitled Zoomers on their bicycles ruining our roads not wanting to be reminded about their future... Yep.

If someone is trying to silence you, you know you're onto something....

Streisand Effect in full effect here.

The fact that whoever sent the death threats only got a small fine is 100% insane

What has this world come to? :(

I thought this was a meme at first. We live in the worst timeline.

How long do you figure until smalltalk about the weather is an attack on someone's political beliefsystem?

We've had an ice age.

What doesn't say the orbit of the planet or its angle to the Sun can't make the pendulum swing the other way?

I fine w/ going green, I wish we had more light rail in the US. It was nice when I worked in DC and got to read a book on the way into work. I was a hell of a lot more physically active.