Missing winter sea-ice signals changes in Antarctica that could be “absolute disaster for the world”, scientists say.

  • @_number8_
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    248 months ago

    look this is going to sound horrible but – i was born in 1996, i’ve been hearing this shit all my life, climate catastrophe, uninhabitable planet…i’m just waiting for a spectacular collapse so i can stop having the background anxiety about it and we can live our lives like in our favorite post-apocalyptic films

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      Unfortunately, large-scale systems change slowly due to inertia and the distances involved. Unless you introduce extreme amounts of energy like the dinosaur killing meteor.

      Even then it’s happening ridiculously fast considering changes of this scale typically happen over tens of thousands of years at least.

    • Match!!
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      88 months ago

      Yeah!

      We’re all gonna be in this apocalyptic film

      • Kbin_space_program
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        88 months ago

        If there is enough civilization to have film after.

        After the fall of the Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations, it took several hundred years before any real civilizations arose. And the only one with any records of it were the Egyptians

    • @SoonaPaana
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      68 months ago

      God yeah. This is like a tease that has been happening for decades. I cannot wait to normalize living in bunkers.

      • livus
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        28 months ago

        All the bunkers in my part of the world are owned by Silicon valley billionaires/Russian oligarchs.

    • BNE
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      18 months ago

      Fuck that noise. Do something about it now. Unmake a pipeline. Blockade a coal port. Fight, for fucks sake. We don’t get to undo this.