Researchers have predicted the collapse of the AMOC could happen any time between 2025 and 2095 — far sooner than previous predictions, although not all scientists are convinced.

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  • @Saneless
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    And they know how to fucking fix it but don’t want to

    It’d be like if in the movie Armageddon the government just said “Eh let’s see if it really will be that bad if it hits us”

      • @Saneless
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        121 year ago

        Yes but without the part where they tried

          • arefx
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            Without some sort of violent revolution, we won’t, or time runs out but it’s not a movie and there’s no ship to another planet.

              • @Saneless
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                61 year ago

                Revolutions take over where reason stops. The people in power have the means to do the right thing, but sometimes they look out for a few people and will destroy thousands. That’s not a good option, as people get more desperate

                • @[email protected]
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                  Climate change is not something that has a simple solution to it and governments just refuse to do so for whatever reason. That’s a naive view that ignores all the complexity of this issue.

                  For example: stopping all carbon emissions is not going to stop climate change. Not only do you need to become carbon-neutral but you also need to get all the excessive carbon out of the atmosphere. How?

                  • @Saneless
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                    41 year ago

                    Why the extreme? Cutting back and investing in things that are better should be a mandate, not an idea or option. And certainly we cannot allow an administration to roll things backwards just because someone bribed them donated to their campaign

    • @[email protected]
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      “We could do something about the asteroid, but think of the harm doing something could do to the shareholders!?”

      • @Saneless
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        31 year ago

        I was going to save humanity but I have a responsibility to a handful of shareholders that yell at me in meetings so… You can really see how hard this is for me

    • @[email protected]
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      Only “they” is actually “us”. We voted those clowns into office. We knew (or should have known, the information was available) better at least since the 1970s.

      • @Saneless
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        11 year ago

        Yes, there’s a group of people who would rather make members who vote a certain way sad than save their own lives. I don’t get it

        • @InternetUser2012
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          21 year ago

          From FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME to let me lick those boots while you tell me what I should be outraged about.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It’s actually kind of too late now.

      But, we may be able to prevent more bad stuff happening if we change things today!

    • @[email protected]
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      IDK, I mean we know it’s to do with carbon but we don’t really know how to stop producing that in a timely manner.

    • Echo Dot
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      -91 year ago

      Carbon is causing global warming. We know how to fix global warming because we are causing it, we just have to stop doing it.

      This article is about global cooling which is bizarre and not something we expected would be happening. We haven’t got a clue why it’s doing that. It maybe natural, or it maybe it’s something we’ve done in a complicated way, but we don’t know so we don’t know how to fix it.

      If this is just an ice age why may as well burn all the coal now to try and stave it off.

      Although in reality I think this needs a lot more research before we do anything because this announcement makes no sense within our current understanding of the environmental science.

      • @xohshoo
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        91 year ago

        Umm, no. Go read it again.

        Global warming shuts off the current, so the warm air doesn’t shuttle north, causing local cooling, not global