biceps crimes posted:

god damnit! we need to start emitting more to darken the skies! someone do something!

Pink Mist posted:

We could cover the Earth with a tarp

Microplastics posted:

Lol

In India there was a snake problem so the government paid people to hunt snakes, so people bred snakes to get the payments, so the government stopped paying people to hunt snakes, so the snake breeders released all their snakes, so there were more snakes than to begin with

Decades posted:

I just feel like if we've arrived at the stage of collapse where we're trapped in a transparently terminal feedback loop making it obvious that the rest of history would just be all of civilization getting progressively ground into a fine powder of microplastics, concrete, and bone, someone on the news should be mentioning that?

Decades posted:

I just feel like if we've arrived at the stage of collapse where we're trapped in a transparently terminal feedback loop making it obvious that the rest of history would just be all of civilization getting progressively ground into a fine powder of microplastics, concrete, and bone, someone on the news should be mentioning that?

Samuel Glompers posted:

Bong rips absolutely help

CODChimera posted:

i'm doing my part

Pink Mist posted:

We could cover the Earth with a tarp

Iron Crowned posted:

rex rabidorum vires posted:

It's called the Euthanasia Coaster and we're either speeding down the first big drop or exiting the first loop depending on your level of pessimism.

Colin Mockery posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62652133

Complications posted:

oh no the natural gas is being burned in russia instead of europe and this is very concerning for the environment please think of the environment russians we need to burn all of that and have those emissions in europe instead

Hubbert posted:

I am unironically grateful that people are starting to understand that things truly aren't that bad yet.

Koirhor posted:

need to try killface’s solution

Cloks posted:

ant farm keyboard?

Complications posted:

oh no the natural gas is being burned in russia instead of europe and this is very concerning for the environment please think of the environment russians we need to burn all of that and have those emissions in europe instead

Trabisnikof posted:

Since the pipelines leak, this is actually better for the environment than letting the Europeans burn it.

Dog Case posted:

I feel like the Europeans are probably using other gas instead of just completely ceasing use of anything that would have burned gas from Russia

Pink Mist posted:

We could cover the Earth with a tarp

Wakko posted:

better for the environment? do you even understand why we're changing the climate?

the good news is flaring at the well burns dirtier than at a power plant, let's turn that sea ice black baby!

ArfJason posted:

im gonna blow my brains out because computer forum told me about the excessive cringe in the mesosphere

Hubbert posted:

It is the official position of the Biosphere Collapse thread that you should not cringe yourself.

Hubbert posted:

It is the official position of the Biosphere Collapse thread that you should not cringe yourself.

ArfJason posted:

im gonna blow my brains out because computer

ArfJason posted:

im gonna blow my brains out because computer forum told me about the excessive cringe in the mesosphere

ArfJason posted:

im gonna cringe

ArfJason posted:

im gonna blow my brains out because computer forum told me about the excessive cringe in the mesosphere

Decades posted:

I just feel like if we've arrived at the stage of collapse where we're trapped in a transparently terminal feedback loop making it obvious that the rest of history would just be all of civilization getting progressively ground into a fine powder of microplastics, concrete, and bone, someone on the news should be mentioning that?

a galaxy brain in another forum posted:

It's important not to imagine some kind of climate switch flipping in a year, resulting in a tide of billions of brown people -- I would imagine this is what right-wing ecofascists might picture. Instead, the answer is probably more prosaic. There would probably be some form of large, international cooperation to build and accommodate an influx of refugees, at the same time as international aid to focus on building and making robust systems to adapt within those affected areas. It's not something that will be done immediately, like a giant airlift, but a gradual emigration over several decades.

In the worst-case late-century scenario, there would be somewhere between 10-20 "off the charts" heat days per year. Keeping in mind, that the article you linked mentioned "mean" yearly temperatures. A future business as usual scenario (likely in my opinion) of 4-6 C hotter than now would still have seasons and days that aren't lethal, there would just be a much higher frequency of lethal days. In that case, and knowing that it's down the pipeline, I can see risk mitigation strategies being deployed by these countries - including evacuation, creation of mass heat-shelters, wider use of AC, and so on. Governments might invest a lot into infrastructure or collective housing and working arrangements where many millions of people could live either in contained cool buildings, or live within very close proximity to some kind of shelter where they could dwell during lethal heat waves. At the same time, emigration could be facilitated, so that you have people leaving the country over time, while those who need or wish to stay for whatever reason can find shelter in safe places.

It's also worth noting that diversity exists within affected countries as well. For the example of India, you could see a planned trend of relocating to higher elevation areas near the foothills of the Himalayas, where the weather is cooler.

platzapS posted:

I was beaten bloody by the climate change thread. But I never hated them. I said "thank you for your data."

Perry Mason Jar posted:

[...] They're also sterilized.