• HippyTed@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Not surprised. We are learning that we miscalculated the climate sensitivity. Alas, it doesnt arrive with a giant banner, kicking down the door but just slowly sneaks in and then refuses to leave.

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      2 months ago

      ICE can’t kill us all. The climate change our politicians and corporations are resolutely ignoring certainly can.

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        Climate change can’t kill us all unless we hit some strange runaway effect that wasn’t triggered when atmospheric CO2 levels were higher 500 million years ago (although the sun was 5% less bright back then). There might only be a couple million people hanging out on tropical Antarctica, but they could survive.

        Humans are hardy; our species survived the ice age and the accompanying desertification of Africa with just some sharp rocks, our species can survive a mass extinction event with all our modern science and technology.

        No, if we die out entirely, it will be fascism that does it. Shitheads that would rather burn the last remaining footholds of human survival than let the future exist outside of their control.

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      something something joke about disappearing glaciers being the real threat from ice something something