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By 2100, Deadly Heat May Threaten Majority of Humankind
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BoogieWoogie
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FYI, its 120 degrees in Arizona today apparently and they had to cancel all flights due to the heat.
We probably will see a revival period in the rust belt as these mega cities in the southwest run out of water.
The Elite
BOSS
Theonik
Member
We noticed the problem as early as the 1920s yet did nothing to fix it and are only moving now to mitigate it. Any effort we invest in now will take about 40 years to bear fruit. We must act now to save the future. In believing the future will solve this then there will never be a solution.
Humans can't actually destroy the planet. The planet will be fine and will recover in a few millennia which is nothing in planetary scale.
It is we that are under threat.
zonetrooper5
Member
Its 30 degrees celsius here in Surrey atm, the english and irish in me can't cope with this weather.
BossDarkseid
Member
Yay a Surrey-Gaffer. and with a bit of irish blood too!
don't worry. it'll be down to 21c on Friday and "breezy"...
7DollarHagane
Banned
Wouldn't be a global warming thread without condescending sensationalism
Sad thing is this is from a time where the idiots were ridiculed with blistering satire and our politicians actually passed laws to fix the CFC problem.
Imagine the debate today, nothing you get done and filtering out the use of CFCs would be called job destory over regulation.
Already happening.
The Arab Spring was influenced by a round of droughts and crop failures, pushing people into cities. Syria and ISIS are results of a worse second round.
Chie Satonaka
Member
laughed hard
zonetrooper5
Member
Thank god, 20c where its sunny with the nice breeze is literally the best weather, not too hot, not too cold.
Militaratus
Member
A better future, underground!
I'm actually hoping by the year 2100 we've managed to make our way off the planet by living in a space station or two and a large moonbase.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
I can just move to north pole, Im good
Croatoan
They/Them A-10 Warthog
Uhh, no. Learning to control our planet's weather and temp is part of our future. The only way we become a type 1 civilization is by doing so. While people like you hand wring and doomsay because "Nobody Listened" some scientist is figuring it out somewhere. Humanity as a whole will be perfectly fine. A combination of the coming Solar Revolution, world wide common sense pollution control, and depopulation will slow things. Science will fix the rest.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
This is just silly and borderline dangerous to hand wave away the issue of climate change because of "our destiny" to be a more advanced civilization.
The only global temperature control in our future is when we start pumping some type of particle in the atmosphere that won't cause acid rain to lower global temperatures. A very "dumb" solution at that.
Mass Effect
Member
It is most certainly reversible. Not by us, but the Earth will correct itself in a few thousand years. The real question is whether modern human civilization will exist by then (probably not).
Nemesis121
Member
I will be dead by then, good luck to the living
What if we have the tech to put our heads on robot bodies by then, allowing us to live forever
It's nice to have stories.
The US currently has no way to put people in LEO. There's only one country that does. The world isn't anywhere near a path to a type 1 civilization.
It's been 150 years and we haven't fixed racism.
I'm not totally defeatist on the issue, but hand waving the urgency and the problems already in motion with a view of fictitious futures aren't helpful either.
Not totally fair. Extreme poverty has gone way down the last 50-100 years. But there have been unforseen and slowly understood consequences that need to now be adjusted for.
WaterAstro
Member
It's actually hard to say if it is reversible because this climate change is not natural. Earth has been through many ice ages, but ice ages are caused by a lack of Co2. There has been no evidence of the reverse ever happening in the history of Earth.
The things that filter out and trap Co2, trees and ocean plant life, we're destroying all of them, so if it comes to a point where we destroyed too much of the elements needed to reverse Climate Change, we'd be at a point of no return where normal plant life could not live in the heated conditions. Coral reefs have nearly disappeared because of a single degree rise in temperature. Just imagine if we go up a few more degrees.
If it will somehow correct itself, it's not a few thousand years. It's going to be millions.
redfirm
Banned
Irreversible in terms of how it affects the ability of the planet to sustain life as it currently exists.
Exactly. Just saying that everything will be fine because scientists will think of something is like not giving a shit about quitting smoking because they'll probably have invented a cure for cancer by the time you get it.
We already did. It's just not cost effective.
No. We will not recover from this. It is too late.
There was a fire in California in the last ten years or so that would have been extremely difficult and costly to put out, so they hoped it'd just burn itself out
By the time it was eating houses it was too late to even try and stop it anymore
We probably have another good 15 or 20 years to make some ridiculous strides in fixing this problem before it's unfixable because we're absolutely running out of time
Edit: we won't even fix it anymore, we can maybe just prevent literally everything from going to shit
By the time it was eating houses it was too late to even try and stop it anymore
We probably have another good 15 or 20 years to make some ridiculous strides in fixing this problem before it's unfixable because we're absolutely running out of time
Edit: we won't even fix it anymore, we can maybe just prevent literally everything from going to shit
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
You understand that billions of people still think this whole thing is a hoax, unproven and/or only God can change the climate, right?
Right-wingers, conservatives, traditionalists and their ilk will fight any progress on this issue until it really fucks shit up, which it has started doing.
Yeah, I believe it's because the heat makes it so a plane has to go further and faster to take off in order to get lift, meaning the current runways are insufficient
WaterAstro
Member
All of us shouldn't think small scale. Plane delays or some forest fires are the small part of the bigger picture.
If many parts of the world become unlivable due to deadly heat, farms disappear, resources are lost, and people need to migrate. Countries that have been affected will fight other countries for land and resources, even within countries like America, citizens will fight each other for the same reason.
This is how war starts. I'm beyond thinking about the next worst summer heat wave. I am thinking that we're going to end ourselves within 200 years.
If many parts of the world become unlivable due to deadly heat, farms disappear, resources are lost, and people need to migrate. Countries that have been affected will fight other countries for land and resources, even within countries like America, citizens will fight each other for the same reason.
This is how war starts. I'm beyond thinking about the next worst summer heat wave. I am thinking that we're going to end ourselves within 200 years.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Yeah but I was kind of thinking of having kids and then I'd be dooming them to this fate.
John Rabbit
Banned
We don't have 80 years, we needed to be working on this 25 years ago.