We're probably already dun' goofed. Not sure if it's possible to revert what's already in motion
[QUOTE=MILKE;45461172]We're probably already dun' goofed. Not sure if it's possible to revert what's already in motion[/QUOTE]
It's probably worth trying, this is the fucking human race we're talking about
This is the only planet with non-microbial life that we know of, I'm pretty sure not destroying it is a higher priority than literally everything else
Geo engineering is the solution imo, just extremely risky and it's unlikely that world governments could agree on one solution.
Another problem is that tampering with our own planet's weather systems opens a pandora's box of possibilities and it could be used for harm
(it's obviously only a small part of the path to long term sustainability, but we need to make it in the short term if we want to last awhile)
While this issue should really be everyone's number 1#, I have a high amount of confidence that science will be our savior, please refer to this chart.
[url]http://static.squarespace.com/static/53bbcfe8e4b0db0fef85fcc6/t/53bc096fe4b026326f820dc3/1404832119319/[/url]
Edit: Don't get cocky though! If you're really concerned or worried about this issue and want to do something, consider majoring in science and apply it.
[QUOTE=JoelDJr;45462660]While this issue should really be everyone's number 1#, I have a high amount of confidence that science will be our savior, please refer to this chart.
[url]http://static.squarespace.com/static/53bbcfe8e4b0db0fef85fcc6/t/53bc096fe4b026326f820dc3/1404832119319/[/url]
Edit: Don't get cocky though! If you're really concerned or worried about this issue and want to do something, consider majoring in science and apply it.[/QUOTE]
If only I could read more than half of it.
Was just watching this channel. He's gotten a lot more professional since then.
But this summer was cooler than the last!
/every person that says climate change is false.
Man, of all the things to not flare up my anxiety, threat of mass extinction of the entire planet isn't really doing anything to me
Although even in postulated collapses of the thermohaline circulation, circulation doesnt stop altogether. Modern simulations of oceanic currents are still much simpler than the real thing, and more complex simulations tend to show a gradual weakening. A full shutdown has shown to be unlikely in simulations.
[quote]While many uncertainties remain in model projections of the climate response toincreasing greenhouse gases, two features are common to all projections and are
considered to be fairly robust, namely a general warming of surface climate and a
strengthening of the atmospheric hydrological cycle (Cubasch et al. 2001). Both these
features would be expected to increase the vertical stability of the water column
in the subpolar North Atlantic and Nordic seas by warming and freshening the
surface, resulting in a reduction in formation rate and/or density of deep water and
a weakening of the THC/MOC system. Most coupled climate models do show such
a weakening over the next century in response to plausible forcing scenarios defined
by IPCC. Over the Northern Hemisphere, such a weakening would be expected to
provide a cooling effect (see § 2) which would offset somewhat the warming due to
increasing greenhouse gases.
There is little agreement between different models over how much the MOC will
weaken. Given the same greenhouse-gas forcing scenario, a range of models used by
IPCC produces changes in the Atlantic overturning of between 0 and −14 Sv by 2100
(no model shows a strengthening; Cubasch et al. 2001). Even models which show a
fairly similar weakening do so for different reasons; for example in the GFDL R15 a
model (Dixon et al. 1999) changes in fresh-water fluxes are shown to dominate
changes in heat fluxes in driving the THC response, whereas in the ECHAM3/LSG
model (Mikolajewicz & Voss 2000) the opposite is the case[/quote]
[URL]http://www.ambiente.sp.gov.br/proclima/files/2014/05/globalwarmingandthemohalinecirculationstability.pdf[/URL]
[QUOTE=Mr. Jelly;45463402]Man, of all the things to not flare up my anxiety, threat of mass extinction of the entire planet isn't really doing anything to me[/QUOTE]
It's working on me, wish I could stop it...
I like how at the end, he realistically states that despite the end of the world being a possibility for our continued pollution, it's not going to stop him from eating meat, flying, or driving to work. Those things are so engrained into modern society that to just stop doing those to prevent climate change would be a massive step backwards for society.
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