Climate Change

[Supermoon]

We are so royally fucked.

[old goat]

We are so royally fucked.

If Schumer can get his No Kings Act passed we'll still be fucked, but not royally.

Meanwhile, New Yorker article on Greenland vis a vis climate change.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...e-arctic-melts

[FigureELEVEN11]

AC last night woohoo. Needed it a few times and not just for 5 mins.

[Trackhead]

Here’s a fun one (I think this is a gifted version).
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2...climate-risks/

Paywall

[skaredshtles]

Paywall

https://archive.ph/TAexh

[bodywhomper]

https://archive.ph/TAexh

Thanks. How do you create/get an archive link?

[Trackhead]

Here’s a fun one (I think this is a gifted version).
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2...climate-risks/

Paywall

[bodywhomper]

What the shit! Idk how I deleted my post, but here’s the archive version of the article that I tried to post. Thanks skaredshtles
https://archive.ph/TAexh

[old goat]

Paywall

I had no problem reading. Maybe I can read a limited number of free articles. Or my VPN.

[skaredshtles]

Thanks. How do you create/get an archive link?

Super easy, señor - just go to archive.ph and stuff the offending URL in and voila!

[bodywhomper]

Super easy, señor - just go to archive.ph and stuff the offending URL in and voila!

Thanks!!

[frorider]

AMOC update. https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ry-study-finds

Well darn. I was hoping it’d collapse so I could just move to Yurp and enjoy long cold winters.

[old goat]

Well, we won't know if it collapses or not, since Elon is busy firing at NOAA and the NWS.

[Trackhead]

Yet we just read headlines we were fucked by 2030 about six months ago. I don’t doubt the credibility of the scientists doing their best with a complex prediction, but I do question the media who only publishes click bait for scientific uncertainty, at best.

[old goat]

You would get that impression if you only read the headlines. I find in the papers I read regularly--mainly NYT and WAPO (not so sure about continuing that one) the alarming headlines are generally followed by balanced reporting that acknowledges the uncertainty. Headlines are written by different people than the ones who write the articles (and the NYT just announced they will be using AI to write headlines. Contributing to climate change.) I do think it's pretty clear that warming is happening faster than earlier models predicted. Natural climate variation--the kind the deniers say has always occurred and is happening now--does not produce the noticeable change within the lifetimes of individuals that is happening now.

[Trackhead]

The truth of current knowledge lies deep in articles, but we all know 95% people read the title and the first paragraph.

[old goat]

They wouldn't read the first paragraph if not for the click bait title. And I count myself among the "they".

[The SnowShow]

So now there’s life on Antarctica in the form of green algae where glaciers having melted. Can’t imagine that’s a good sign. Will our kids have any way to ski when they’re our age? Scary stuff.

[old goat]

They can ski in Antarctica, or Greenland if they want to stay in the USA

[PB]

Green algae be like, "gimme dat CO2!!"

[BCMtnHound]

And with the extra O2 and a few hundred thousand years - Mega Fauna!
Make Apes Puny Again!

[Jvhowube]

3c by 2040 means not only no skiing, but major bread basket failures worldwide! Kids not skiing will be the least of your worries!

[raisingarizona13]

Skiing will not be on my mind trying to survive the wars (or constant fear of) or the post apocalyptic world we will be living in. Skiing ain't shit. It's a silly folly of the wealthy. There's going to be REAL problems developing from a rapidly warming Earth. Buckle up buttercups, it's going to be a rough ride.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I don’t think climate change will be the cause of civilization collapse, it may/will exacerbate the collapse but it’s more likely to be economic collapse. The world economy is a house of cards and it doesn’t get any support because we’re all at odds with each other with nationalism and regional conflicts. I see an economic crisis and then military conflict as the beginning of the end. Have a great day!

[Mudfoot]

I don’t think climate change will be the cause of civilization collapse, it may/will exacerbate the collapse but it’s more likely to be economic collapse. The world economy is a house of cards and it doesn’t get any support because we’re all at odds with each other with nationalism and regional conflicts. I see an economic crisis and then military conflict as the beginning of the end. Have a great day!

Climate change will cause economic collapse and military conflict over dwindiling rescources. It is already causing massive climate migration and you can see all the resulting international strife. In the US a lot of the latin and south american immigration is the result of negative politcal and weather issues. If the weather is too hot or irratic to grow food and successfully fish people are forced to move. As the physical environment deteriorates the degradation of civiliation follows. The world population is moving farther away from the equator out of necessity and beginning to squeeze the mid-latidude residents, so conflicts are inevidible.