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[koam]

What will happen once all the ice is gone?

We'll have to start drinking water at a faster rate and holding in our pee.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Actually, that's part of the disaster. Ice melts, cooling the water, which slows the convective processes of the ocean while also decreasing the salinity of the ocean. Neither of those things is a good outcome.

Might as well go further, decreasing the salinity of the ocean would cause the gulf stream to stop, outside of obvious temperature results it would cause on europe and north america, it can stop the ocean conveyor belt globally, ocean stagnation results, anoxia (lack of oxygen) kills majority of aquatic lifeforms, and related to the permian extinction from wiki

" A severe anoxic event at the end of the Permian could have made sulfate-reducing bacteria the dominant force in oceanic ecosystems, causing vast emissions of hydrogen sulfide which poisoned plant and animal life on both land and sea, as well as severely weakening the ozone layer, exposing much of the life that remained to fatal levels of UV radiation."

sounds fun!

 

[Truant]

What happened with the mammoth cloning experiment? I thought they were going to do it

 

[Prez]

What happened with the mammoth cloning experiment? I thought they were going to do it

They are. We'll be eating mammoth burgers soon.