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Total_Customer_6627 t1_jaa3fbo wrote

I wonder if we’re already fucked, or if we have time to prevent us from being fucked.

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macross1984 t1_jaajip9 wrote

As the shrinkage of Arctic ice continue, people who own beachfront properties are in for rude surprise when the water start rising.

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kingofpotatopeople92 t1_jaatq99 wrote

Replying to Total_Customer_6627 (#2,078,423)

"I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished. If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record. The storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. We still have nothing to go on.

[Briefly turns off tape recorder and takes a drink of whisky. He looks at the torn long johns and turns it back on]

One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found some shredded long johns, but the nametag was missing. They could be anybody's. Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired.

[turns off tape recorder then turns it back on after a short pause]

Nothing else I can do, just wait...

R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost number 31."

[turns off recorder]

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Bremer_dan_Gorst t1_jabk8j7 wrote

how is this news? it will be shrinking still so every year it will probably shrink to lowest ever (barring some outlier year)

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Drywesi t1_jabmonx wrote

Replying to clarkrd (#2,094,048)

Depends on an awful lot of factors. Weather's going to get more unpredictable tho, and likely harsher in its extremes. It wouldn't surprise me to see significant sea level rise and consequent shoreline loss on the East Coast in the next 20ish years. Which is going to change how things shake out up there.

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ChooglinOnDown t1_jabvgog wrote

Replying to clarkrd (#2,094,048)

> are we at level 10 of the FAFO scale?

Worse, we're at Level One. We're just now barely beginning to feel the effects.

If you're young, your children will live worse and shorter lives than you. Your grandchildren are going to be deprived.

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santz007 t1_jabwjbn wrote

Well.. It was fun while it lasted and thank you for all the fish

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CompositeBeing t1_jabypcu wrote

Replying to macross1984 (#2,083,258)

I would re read that physics books again - a melting floating ice you and the article referring to does NOT increase the average sea level. What is more - the southern hemisphere has summer right now.

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CompositeBeing t1_jabyvsw wrote

Sea ice = floating ice. Its melting does not increase the average sea level. The southern hemisphere has summer right now and it is perfectly normal for an ice to melt during summer.

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Few-Carpenter-5746 t1_jac3j4l wrote

Funny. In Idaho right now its freezing and has snowed about 4 ft in the last month. Most snow Ive ever seen here and seems like its been abnormally cold all winter long. It seems like there is a jet stream thats moving the cold arctic air more south. Im sure it will revert back to normal over the next couple of years and the ice will build back up. Also, the more ice that melts from glaciers and ice caps in Antartica, the colder it makes arctic ocean waters thus creating more sea ice during winter months.

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ArBui t1_jac4mpb wrote

Replying to Total_Customer_6627 (#2,078,423)

Probably not. This place is full of doom but if you click into articles or read the scientific papers and watch interviews with the scientists themselves and not the media's BS clickbait interpretation of what they or their papers have said, none of them are presenting doomed planet malarkey because it's not the case.

E.g. This article is full of maybes, likelies, possiblies, and also notes it will be several years yet before it's understood if what's happening is really going to have any effect on anything down the line.

Even more, you see lot of people worrying about the sea ice itself melting raising the ocean levels - which is tarded because sea ice is already in the ocean and so it won't raise the ocean levels. The further details being investigated for years to come are about it possibly maybe affecting the land ice.

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Bergensis t1_jaca90w wrote

Replying to CompositeBeing (#2,097,090)

> Sea ice = floating ice. Its melting does not increase the average sea level.

As the article states:

"...the sea ice rings Antarctica's massive ice shelves, the extensions of the freshwater glaciers that threaten catastrophic sea level rise over centuries if they continue melting as global temperatures rise."

I might also add that ice reflects more sunshine than sea, and a reduction of ice, whether it is on land or sea, reduces the amount of solar energy that is reflected back into space:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sea-ice-climate.html

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AltNationReality t1_jacwd0i wrote

But...But... I heard it snowed in LA.... so there can't be global warming... \s

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Batcraft10 t1_jaequg1 wrote

Replying to Total_Customer_6627 (#2,078,423)

It’s pretty much 99% chance that places like Fiji and Maldives are fucked. Humanity as a whole will likely figure it out. Not before we start seeing catastrophic disasters, unfortunately, like mass die offs in Indian cities as a result of too high humidity + heat

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beaucoupBothans t1_jaet2ew wrote

Replying to Few-Carpenter-5746 (#2,098,184)

Cold water subducts and travels away as it sink below the warmer water on the surface that then cools then subducts as well driving the system south at the north pole and north on the south pole. It is called the ocean conveyor belt and is driven by temp and salinity. It is what keeps the gulf streams moving and mixes the oceans. Warm water moves to the poles cold water moves to the tropics.

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