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'We have twelve years left to cut emissions by at least 50 percent if not more,' Ocasio-Cortez, visibly annoyed, told her viewers. 'For everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but you're grandkids will not, so understand that the internet documents everything.' — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019 See, all that stuff about '12 years' was just a sarcastic, dryly humorous joke. If you thought she was serious, you have the social intelligence of a. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed she was 'joking' about the world ending in 12 years due to climate change, adding that anyone who believed her is an idiot. The former bartender backed away from her previous dire warning. 'You'd have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal,' she said. Well, that when she got burned, badly. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a swipe at the GOP for criticizing her dry sense of humor. Specifically, she said you'd have to have the 'intelligence of a sea sponge' to think she was being literal when she said the world was ending in 12 years. Ocasio-Cortez suggested that Republicans too often mischaracterize her dry humor and 'fact check' her jokes, claiming that they take them too literally. One of her alleged jokes includes a January claim that the world will end in 12 years if we do not address climate change, comparing it to a modern World War II-style struggle.
On Monday, Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke with US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the fourth annual MLK Now event in New York City. During a conversation that encompassed the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the current political climate, the freshman member of Congress brought up a huge problem that she's previously described as the 'civil rights movement of our generation': climate change.
Ocasio-Cortez told Coates:
'Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us, are looking up, and we're like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'
'‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.''
It's a reasonable take if you're aware of the 12-year mark outlined in the 2018 UN 'Special Report on Global warming of 1.5ºC,' released in October. It mentions the year 2030 — 12 years from now — as the point of no return, if we keep on our current path. It's mentioned 35 times in the report in varying applications.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we only have a time frame of a dozen years to keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels.
Limiting global warming to 1.5 compared with 2 will reduce the impacts we're likely to see on ecosystems and human health. According to the UN:
'The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC would require ‘rapid and far-reaching' transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide, would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching ‘net zero' around 2050.'
If the planet warms beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, we are exacerbating future risks of droughts, floods, extreme heat, and poverty — the sort of results that the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment asserts are currently affecting people now in the form of crop failures in the Midwest and record wildfires in California.
Depending on how you live your life, those failures can be extremely, literally world-ending. A whole town burning down can feel world-ending; a loss of your livelihood can feel world-ending. Ocasio-Cortez is speaking to the urgency of the situation, and the potential for loss. It's hard to imagine that she literally thinks the world is going to end, Armageddon style — even if that's how the story has been framed by her critics.
Fox News took the moment to comment that her 12-year quote was linked to the UN study, but chose to connect it to a 'reputation for making bold, at-times factually incomplete statements.'
Scientists might say that Ocasio-Cortez isn't being bold enough
In turn, scientists might say that Ocasio-Cortez isn't being bold enough with the 12-year prediction. While the working group behind the UN report stated that 2030 served as a 'line in the sand,' a dozen years may be optimistic.
A study published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences states that 'even if the Paris Accord target of a 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C rise in temperature is met, we cannot exclude the risk that a cascade of feedbacks could push the Earth System irreversibly onto a ‘Hothouse Earth' pathway.'
'With the current circumstances, with the abdication of responsibility that we've seen from so many powerful people, even people who abdicate that responsibility by calling themselves liberal or a Democrat, or whatever it is, I feel a need for all of us to breathe fire,' Ocasio-Cortez told Coates.
While the planet isn't going to explode when the clocks strikes midnight for 2030, it doesn't mean that we won't be living in hell.
On Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that she was joking around when she claimed the world was going to end in 12 years if we do not take serious action against Climate Change, a declaration she's been widely criticized over.
The 29-year-old socialist mocked the Republican Party for taking her claim about the end of the world seriously, which she suggested was a combination of 'dry humor + sarcasm.'
'This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and ‘fact check' it. Like the ‘world ending in 12 years' thing, you'd have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal. But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows,' wrote AOC in a tweet published on Mother's Day.
This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and 'fact check' it.
Like the 'world ending in 12 years' thing, you'd have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal.
But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. https://t.co/pmkwrdeAnq
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 12, 2019
For context, Ocasio-Cortez first spouted the hyperbolic claim in January at a Martin Luther King forum in New York City, as The Daily Wire previously reported. She said it without laughing, earned a round of applause from the progressive audience, and then emphasized the point by calling the fight against Climate Change 'our World War II.'
'I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we're like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' charged AOC. 'And your biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II.'
.@AOC on millennials and social media: 'We're, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change' pic.twitter.com/HjhbVyfFN4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 22, 2019
Complicating Ocasio-Cortez's recent suggestion that the world-ending claim was a mere joke, the elected Democrat has repeated the claim time and again and even collaborated with The Intercept to create a video centered around the charge.
'Climate change is here + we've got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half,' she captioned a tweet promoting the video, last month.
Climate change is here + we've got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half.
A #GreenNewDeal is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for.
How did we get here?
What is at stake?
And where are we going?
Please watch & share widely pic.twitter.com/IMCtS86VXG
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 17, 2019
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The video, titled 'A Message From the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,' showcases a future where AOC's widely-panned and uber-expensive Green New Deal has inspired action to save the planet. In the video, the Democrat — you guessed it — again says that we have a '12 year deadline,' The Daily Wire reported:
The congresswoman then warns that we have 'twelve years to change everything' before 'hundreds of millions of people would be more likely to face food and water shortages, poverty, and death.'
'Twelve years to change everything,' she narrates. 'How we got around, how we fed ourselves, how we made our stuff, how we lived and worked — everything. The only way to do it was to transform our economy, which we already knew was broken.'
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Moreover, as reported by The Washington Free Beacon, Ocasio-Cortez doubled-down on her 12-year declaration during an Instagram live-stream when a viewer mocked her over the claim.
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'We have twelve years left to cut emissions by at least 50 percent if not more,' Ocasio-Cortez, visibly annoyed, told her viewers. 'For everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but you're grandkids will not, so understand that the internet documents everything.'
'She then went on a tangent about looking back in history books of the civil rights movement and seeing the white people holding signs against allowing black people to vote,' the Beacon noted.
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'They would hold up these bigoted signs and they would hold up signs that said things like ‘What about white rights?' and all of this stuff in the 1950s and 1960s, so just know that in the present day there are a lot of people who hide the fact that their families and that their grandparents fought against principles of equal rights in the United States, not 100 years ago, not 80 years ago, but in this generation's lifetime,' said the elected rep.
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 22, 2019
Complicating Ocasio-Cortez's recent suggestion that the world-ending claim was a mere joke, the elected Democrat has repeated the claim time and again and even collaborated with The Intercept to create a video centered around the charge.
'Climate change is here + we've got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half,' she captioned a tweet promoting the video, last month.
Climate change is here + we've got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half.
A #GreenNewDeal is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for.
How did we get here?
What is at stake?
And where are we going?
Please watch & share widely pic.twitter.com/IMCtS86VXG
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 17, 2019
Ocasio 12 Years A Jokes
The video, titled 'A Message From the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,' showcases a future where AOC's widely-panned and uber-expensive Green New Deal has inspired action to save the planet. In the video, the Democrat — you guessed it — again says that we have a '12 year deadline,' The Daily Wire reported:
The congresswoman then warns that we have 'twelve years to change everything' before 'hundreds of millions of people would be more likely to face food and water shortages, poverty, and death.'
'Twelve years to change everything,' she narrates. 'How we got around, how we fed ourselves, how we made our stuff, how we lived and worked — everything. The only way to do it was to transform our economy, which we already knew was broken.'
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Moreover, as reported by The Washington Free Beacon, Ocasio-Cortez doubled-down on her 12-year declaration during an Instagram live-stream when a viewer mocked her over the claim.
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'We have twelve years left to cut emissions by at least 50 percent if not more,' Ocasio-Cortez, visibly annoyed, told her viewers. 'For everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but you're grandkids will not, so understand that the internet documents everything.'
'She then went on a tangent about looking back in history books of the civil rights movement and seeing the white people holding signs against allowing black people to vote,' the Beacon noted.
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'They would hold up these bigoted signs and they would hold up signs that said things like ‘What about white rights?' and all of this stuff in the 1950s and 1960s, so just know that in the present day there are a lot of people who hide the fact that their families and that their grandparents fought against principles of equal rights in the United States, not 100 years ago, not 80 years ago, but in this generation's lifetime,' said the elected rep.
'While a lot of people can hide that their grandparents did that in the civil rights movement, you should also know that the internet documents everything and your grandchildren will not be able to hide the fact that you fought against acknowledging and taking bold actions on climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez continued. 'People who are trying to mock and delay this moment, I mean—I just feel bad for you. I just pity you for your role in history right now.'
