Kind of disturbing to hear people saying "this is the new normal" about the climate crisis. It isn't a new normal, because it will carry on getting hotter if we carry on using fossil fuels.
This "new normal" talking point seems to be the latest way fossil fuel companies are trying to avoid action 🤮
@FediThing I have been saying "welcome to the coolest summer of the rest of your life" a lot.
@FediThing The new normal will be including food and water shortages worldwide. :(
@FediThing "New normal" assumes if we stopped emitting, we'd stay here. The problem is we haven't reached the New normal yet. We're on a multi-year journey to a new equilibrium, and we're still moving the equilibrium point.
It's worse than that, in the contexts I've seen they are implying we'll stay here even if we carry on emitting 😞
Aug 13, 2026, 10:18 PM
@FediThing Shut up and get used to it (or don't, we don't care).
Love,
The fossil fuel economy
Aug 13, 2026, 9:51 PM@FediThing The new normal should be headless oil executives.
@FediThing this isn't the new "norm". Norm is now irrelevant for the future. This is the new standard deviation. More extremes : hot/cold, wet/dry.
Forget the cosy days, brace yourselves for the rollercoaster.
The public corruption that surrounds the fossil fuel industry isn't "normal".
It is an industry funding ecocide.
https://archive.is/d2AG8
It is an industry funding genocides.
https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/fossil-fuels-dont-just-burn-planet-they-fuel-genocide
It is an industry funding Supreme Court sleaze.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
It is an industry funding wars.
https://archive.is/hy8mb
It is an industry funding financial frauds.
https://archive.is/T2moG
It is an industry funding far right movements.
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-millions-donations-fossil-fuel-interests-climate-science-deniers/
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An odd phrase, really: "the new normal." If we work at it (and we are, we are), the new "normal" could resemble Venus. And in spite of the illustrations in some very early sci fi books I read back in the late 1950s, we have no evidence of life on Venus, bug-eyed or any other kind. A truly nasty planet.
Mind you, there's no need to achieve a Venusian level of heat, carbon dioxide, and sulfuric acid in order to do ourselves in. We're moving right along, assisted by "leaders" like Trump who will happily steal our money while 'leading' us off a cliff. And wars! How stupid are wars at this point in the story of humans? 😩
it's definitely *not* the "new normal". it's barrelling to the climate disaster scientists have been trying to warn us about for decades.
@FediThing And yet the Neo fascist media are selling the new normal and blaming #rewilding for all fires. Both are lies as #GlobalWarming is responsible for the fires and it is the new #abnormal built on the unsustainable expropriation of non renewables to accelerate the extremes of obscene wealth and inescapable poverty!
@FediThing This is the end of normality. Nothing will ever be normal again. The chaos will keep escalating. Infrastructure will fall apart faster than it can be repaired or replaced. It's the beginning of end of the Industrial Age. That's what they should be saying instead.
@FediThing Thought terminating cliché, just like any cult