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politicalnonsens3 t1_jebykn6 wrote

By 2050? Phew, I'll be 70. I can treat this with the same urgency my parents did.

/s

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Stickyyman t1_jedcyzi wrote

What about 50? Will a 50 year old be considered too old for this to have an effect on them

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Solenka t1_jedynao wrote

You spelled /s, but is it really actually /s? Or is this literally the best we could do about it.

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SingularityCentral t1_jeayenz wrote

The hits just keep on coming. Climate change is a freight train with no one at the controls at this point.

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DanYHKim t1_jebrpkc wrote

More like an avalanche. The first few rocks are falling right now, but they will be followed by an inescapable tide of debris coming down.

I think this is supposed to make the Antarctic region colder, because the cold dense water will not be making its way to the tropics. Which also implies that the tropic and equatorial regions will remain warm or become warmer. The juxtaposition of extremes should result in more violent storms for everybody in the temperate zones.

It's horrifying to think about, but in truth it would be fascinating to watch it happen.

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SingularityCentral t1_jebs51l wrote

It can counterintuitively open the door to warmer water and more melt around antarctica.

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Tentrilix t1_jeewksp wrote

Living in a temperate country, it will be a blast watching it unfold

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DuncanConnell t1_jebyt8o wrote

Freight train with everyone up and down the spectrum shoveling more coal into the furnace

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Terracatosaur t1_jebm1i5 wrote

It kind of always was if you look at climate history.

One of the other inconvient truths of life is that we humans were born into a rare and unstable climate. All human civilization happens just in this little Interglacial window of nice climate, but it's kind of always rapidly warmer or cooling with the transitions in and out of the Interglacial being brutal.

Humans sped up climate change, but it was going to happen either way. That's mostly why 99% of all life has been killed off by climate change. Not just from meteors and supervolcanos, but even just the never stable no real balance climate Earth always produces.

We tend to like to think there is some equilibrium and like if we are goo to the planet it will reward us with stability, but that's some very serious wishful thinking once you look at nice cores and glacification cycles ever 100k years with only 20k of climate even close to what we have now.

Humans always had to learn to control Earths climate or face mass death. We made it all worse, but the earth mostly plans to kill us like the other 99%.

The humans who lived through the last glacial period and almost went extinct understood this better than we do now because they saw the much longer and more brutal side of what Earths climate really looks like.

The to make it worse humans need an Ice Age to have the climate they evolved in..and ice ages are rare. about 70% of Earth's existence since complex life is Greenhouse Earth with no polar ice year round or what I call Dino temperatures.

Dinosaurs seems to get a far more stable climat than we did, but not one good for warm blooded big brains that literally need a cooler climate for the big brains to no overheat.

We can turn food to heat, but we can't turn food into cooling so we are screwed for the most common climate the planet produces.

Feel better now?

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SingularityCentral t1_jebqrj6 wrote

Typical changes in climate happen over much longer spans than a century or two, that was more my point.

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FOL5GTOUdRy8V2nO t1_jebz0ok wrote

Current changing on such a level is going to have to result in significant long-term environmental restructuring

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that_yeg_guy t1_jec7dpd wrote

“The deep-water flows which drive ocean currents could decline by 40% by 2050”

It’s okay. We’ll all be dead in a nuclear war long before that. No worries.

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herpderption t1_jecclnn wrote

You said "No worries", but some of the stuff you said was worrisome.

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GhostFish t1_jed5ojd wrote

The only worry during the nuclear onslaught is that you might not be close enough to the blasts.

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Frostiron_7 t1_jecd7or wrote

This is terrible. What will happen to the whaling corporations?

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hugo4711 t1_jecuv11 wrote

No, it is good for the environment: They’ll gonna stop operating and Greenpeace will celebrate because they finally achieved their goal.

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whoelsehatesthisshit t1_jednwh8 wrote

50-60 comments. That's how much people care.

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PencilPacket t1_jedshh0 wrote

Most people are just worn out already. The majority that truly care end up suffering with exo-anxiety and depression because as individuals were already doing everything we can, so we just have to sit back and enjoy the ride (or turn away and look after ourselves)

The constant spill of bad news while informative does nothing as long as it's ignored by the people we elect as our leaders.

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Hungry_Coyotes t1_jea5e96 wrote

"Could"

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Ok_Refrigerator7378 t1_jealsst wrote

I guess we can just wait and hope for the best xD

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SlapThatAce t1_jeaqw7l wrote

You 'could' have done something better with your time than waste it posting that nonsense

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BigManScaramouche t1_jebgf5y wrote

We hadn't had proper winter for few years, here in Central Europe.

Weather is getting crazy and unpredictable.

I know you might sit comfortable at your home and write shit like this, but do we really have to fry here till we die until people like you finally get it?

Or are you so self-centered that you just simply won't care till it's your turn?

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notabanevader_ t1_jecnxb7 wrote

Well the main thing is, it's really only humanity that's fucked. Terra will be around until heat death or a massive fucking asteroid wipes it out.

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ShadyRedditInvestor t1_jecoyls wrote

Terra will be atomized by our expanding sun in the end stages of its life, WAY before the heat death of the universe.

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theymademechoose t1_jeatewy wrote

All signs indicate that there is a high likelihood that the direction you are going, the time of day, the street that you are walking down, the demographics you are surrounded by and the choice of colors you chose to wear today could result in you getting shot by end of day. “CoUlD” see that’s you, that’s how you sound…

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