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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@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

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"

[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago
[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago

That movie felt way too real watching it.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yes but without the part where they tried

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

We haven't gotten to that point yet

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Great. That's exactly what we need now - more violence

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 6 points 1 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

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 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

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

If there's ever a time when it's justified, it's when our very existence is at stake.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity

[-] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

To humanity? Probably not. To billions of people? Definitely yes.

[-] electromage@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This is because you're not sorting your recycling!

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

"We could do something about the asteroid, but think of the harm doing something could do to the shareholders!?"

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 3 points 1 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

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 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@lemmy.world 8 points 1 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

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 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!

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 7 points 1 year ago

Yes we do. Carbon tax.

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