So basically Katrina 2.0.
If there is one thing to never bet against, it would be nature getting the best of technology.
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10 Feet of Global Sea Level Rise Is Now Guaranteed
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So basically Katrina 2.0.
If there is one thing to never bet against, it would be nature getting the best of technology.
Let's be honest here. I doubt even a large number of people who accept climate change as fact (maybe the majority) care that much beyond posting things like "oh how dreadful" or "we're fucked" or "I care". Would we even be in this mess if they cared enough decades ago? They probably use articles like this to justify their inaction as well: "well we can't do anything about it now anyway".
But hey, at least they can claim the moral high ground, right?
Slayer-33
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lol, we better start
Hm, wait what you are saying is that they'd be no place for that water inland?
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Doomshroom
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can nukes solve this somehow? anyone check with Trump.
damn your stupid
Do you want this movie or not
As others have said, this article is from 2014. Was there updated news or something I'm missing?
I wish it didn't use such vice-like phrasing. Perhaps they assume if they use normal or scientific language, no one would care, but this way it comes off as flowery sensationalist prose and most people probably STILL don't care.
I wish it didn't use such vice-like phrasing. Perhaps they assume if they use normal or scientific language, no one would care, but this way it comes off as flowery sensationalist prose and most people probably STILL don't care.
How many little boys would you consider expendable?
Well, you can make up for surface area by digging deeper, to an extent. The biggest problem is the absurd amount of digging. If the hole was big enough to make an even slightly noticeable difference, you would have piled up enough material from the digging process to form a mountain range.
Cards Against Humanity was trying to save us after all.
Hyperactivity
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You know, rising sea levels and the new islands and coasts that would be created and possibility of land reclamation and seeing deserts become tropical areas and other climates changing would almost be somewhat fascinating to see
That is, if it wasn't for the amount of chaos and suffering it would cause...
That is, if it wasn't for the amount of chaos and suffering it would cause...
How About No
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MOUNT TRUMP
If you gradually nuked the Earth's forests, the firestorms would release particles into the atmosphere that could possibly temporarily stall or reverse warming.
It's not difficult to picture possible downsides to this strategy, though...
And then the Water Cycle occurs, water vapour becomes rain, rain causes flooding. lol
Does the Natural Resources Defense Council seem like a good place to donate to?
IrishNinja
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hey neat, so as a south florida resident i may finally get seaside property one day
...haha, fuckin' savage
...haha, fuckin' savage
The alternative is for the Earth to be hit by a meteor or something like a colony drop.
Dust or other particles get released into the atmosphere and block sunlight which causes cooling but then there is no sunlight for plants. Extinction event equivalent to the dinosaurs occurs.
TemplaerDude
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The city I grew up in has a very good chance of being 100 percent underwater well within my life time.
If we got the Earth so hot that all the water vapor simply exploded off into space, we wouldn't have any problems with water levels being too high ever again.
You don't necessarily have to stop doing things, if everyone reduced their beef consumption and driving that would also help. It is hard to change large aspects of a persons life instantly, so it's easier to convince people to reduce their carbon footprint gradually.
Donating to causes that fight climate change also helps.
That'd involve denuding the Earth of life as we know it, though. Analogous conditions were pre-life when the Earth was a lava meatball.
But what about the heating fan
Adiabatic cooling doesn't care about your big heating fan.
Obliterator
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The world is going to be a really scary place in a lot of ways for the next generation of people.
Lord Panda
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It always takes a disaster for the asshats to finally wake up to themselves.
But where will we get all that heat? We'd need some kind of global warming to pull it off...
mercenar1e
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i feel better now.
That's ALWAYS been the reason, they've just never said it out loud. "It's your problem. You deal with it."
LookAtMeGo
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Just start pumping water into space with a space hose.
I've been saying this for years and no-one's taken me seriously.
Assuming the water wouldn't just fall back to earth, you'd need materials capable of building a strong structure for it. Think carbon nanotubes and space elevators.
So it falls back to Earth and we just end up with Space Rain.
Time for Plan B: We blow up the Sun.
Rosvoja Torilla
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What if we heat up the sun with a giant heating fan
Joke?
Otherwise, good luck building a pump capable of producing that amount of energy and a hose capable of resisting that amount of pressure.Baconsaurus Rex
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Joke?
We'll just hook a hydroelectric dam into it. Boom, infinite power.
The Sun would do a better job of heating the fan than the fan can heat the Sun.
BudokaiMR2
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I thought I escaped the stupidity of Florida by moving to Japan.
And yet they still manage to fuck me over. Japan is gonna be a mess....
I should probably just plan to make a move from Osaka to Kyoto....
And yet they still manage to fuck me over. Japan is gonna be a mess....
I should probably just plan to make a move from Osaka to Kyoto....
Do you see my dilemma
Via Purifico
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Living in the Netherlands, guess I should rethink settling here.
On the plus side, at least they take rising sea levels truly seriously here.
Move over here. Wat a bit and we can rename Deventer to 'Deventer aan Zee'.
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