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

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

  • experbia
    37•2 years ago

    it never ceases to amaze me how stupid we all are as a civilization.

    we’re opting out of it, but nature will continue. this will be a very curious and fairly hospitable world full of interesting xenoarcheological mysteries… in the distant future, to a visiting spacefaring civilization.

    • Chetzemoka
      20•2 years ago

      You have to wonder if we aren’t just confirming what the Great Filter is. There may not be any space faring civilizations.

      • stopthatgirl7OP
        15•2 years ago

        Seriously, that’s what I’ve been thinking recently - that we’re hitting the self-destruction theory of the Great Filter.

      • @Rand0mA@lemmy.world
        2•2 years ago

        It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. It takes too much energy to simulate multiple space faring civilizations at once in our universe. First come, first served and I guess there’s something out there…

    • @0110010001100010@lemmy.world
      3•2 years ago

      I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, planet gonna planet. It give zero fucks about us and will happily continue spinning long after we are gone. If civilizations get purged along the way makes no difference. Kinda makes the “evil villain” from Kingsman: The Secret Service right that we are the virus.

      • @DeanFogg@lemm.ee
        7•2 years ago

        “The end of the world” (I can’t believe I have to explain this) is a euphemism for humanity being wiped out or at the very least the end of the planet being habitable

  • @kippinitreal@lemm.ee
    31•2 years ago

    You know what’s most depressing? Statistically people reading this comment (people who have access to computers/phones + the internet) will have little to mild effects of climate change, compared to the BILLIONS that will perish. Humans will survive all this, but at the cost of unimaginable suffering from the silent/silenced poor.

    • LeberechtReinholdEnglish
      17•2 years ago

      Humanity will survive this but everyone will suffer the effects. Even something relatively minor like COVID had great effects to the global economy, but with these we are talking about:

      • Weather inestabilization, with greater storms and massive heat waves.

      • General crop failures in many places of the world.

      • Desertification in many areas.

      • Massive migration waves.

      • Very difficult and unstable economy.

      We are starting to see some of this, but 2050 onwards is going to be a very difficult time for all humanity except the most wealthy.

    • @beteljuice@lemmy.ml
      14•2 years ago

      If it gets bad enough that millions die, let alone billions, the effects will hit everyone, hard. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the economy is very interconnected and fragile, and wars are started over a lot less.

  • @_number8_@lemmy.world
    16•2 years 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

    • @SoonaPaana@lemmy.world
      6•2 years ago

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

      • livus
        2•2 years ago

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

    • @burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      I always think of it like an exponential function. There seems like nothing until it starts skyrocketing… The ocean/ice/atmosphere has had enough of our added heat and greenhouse gases to the point of no return, and it is just getting started. I often think of it like a glass of water getting hot in the sun after all the ice melts… and now the warming is always “faster than expected”

      • OurTragicUniverse
        11•2 years ago

        This is a good explanation.

        Look this up yourself with other sources though too. You’ll want to fnd out how much ice coverage is left at the poles, how much we’ve lost this year so far, and the loss projection for if the next 5 years are as hot as 2023. Then look up what will happen to the earth with all the unreflected solar radiation we’ll be absorbing without the ice caps.

          • OurTragicUniverse
            2•2 years ago

            Yup. And with all the wildfires releasing a shit ton of carbon into the atmosphere alongside all the shit released from industrial pollution, the next few years are very likely gonna be hot as fuck.