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Does anyone know of the implications of a year-round ice-free artic? Is the artic salvageable at this point? It seems evident that soon the artic will have a sh
by cconroy 7y ago
Does anyone know of the implications of a year-round ice-free artic? Is the artic salvageable at this point? It seems evident that soon the artic will have a short period of being ice-free, kickstarting an inexorable process with yet longer periods of being ice-free.
It is safe to assume at this point climate change is like an asteroid on a trajectory of near term collision with Earth. I'd rather be wrong and alive then right and extinct on this one. But thats me.
- Asooka 7y agoScientists were saying that if something wasn't done in the late 80s climate change would be irreversible and catastrophic. The people in charge couldn't be arsed and here we are. You can bet that when my generation sits down to write the history books they won't be kind to our elders.
- techdreamer 7y agoCitations at all...In the late 80s the biggest worry was the Ozone Hole and nuclear winter. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Not to worry, Gen Zed is reaching late teens and early 20s now.