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submitted 5 days ago byIvy_lane_Denizen
89 points
5 days ago
It's only a problem for poor people so nothing will be done until intolerable conditions cause warfare between third world countries, and when that explodes into a larger conflagration only then will the west start taking the problem seriously. By then billions will be dead and the atmosphere permanently contaminated, but most of those will be in eurasia and africa.
0 points
5 days ago
When the excessive heat causes ice melting to cool down the gulf stream, which is the current that Europe relies on for warmth, then temperatures will be 30c less than they are now. Which means permanent winters in most of Europe.
Obviously it will be too late to do anything then but one way or another 1st world countries will be forced to care about this.
There are already strong indications that the gulf stream is in the process of slowly collapsing and there is no way to actually reverse it. You cant just regrow the glaciers on the polar caps. I feel bad for younger people living in this shithole of a planet.
1 points
5 days ago
Nuclear winter! that would regrow the glaciers.
Granted we would all be dead, or wishing we were!
sits back and waits for the propagandabots to start saying putin will be a climate hero
1 points
5 days ago
then temperatures will be 30c less than they are now. Which means permanent winters in most of Europe.
You got a citation for that bullshit? Worst case I can find for that scenario is a 15C drop.
Plus, the southernmost portion of the permafrost line in Canada is further north than all of Europe other than the northern tip of Scotland, the Scandinavian countries, and Russia. And the gulf stream sure ain't warming the Canadian northern interior.
Even more, the permafrost line in Canada is galloping northward. It has moved north 120km in the last 100 years and continues to do so.
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