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The clathrate gun is the most scary doomsday scenario that's very reasonably likely to expect to happen in my lifetime. It's also a good test for ones ability
by Roritharr 8y ago
The clathrate gun is the most scary doomsday scenario that's very reasonably likely to expect to happen in my lifetime.
It's also a good test for ones ability to cope with existential dread, just tell someone about it, point to the Wikipedia page and see how long it takes until they shutoff and say something like:"nah, we'll figure it out".
On another note, how valid is my anxiety regarding it, are there any pointers based in fact that this will really not be much of an issue?
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoWe can offset the warming by a nuclear winter if necessary.
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- nnq 8y ago...well yeah, the worlwide famine and political instability coming after the massive climate change will kind of obviously lead to this, thank god for the nukes.
- the8472 8y agoYou know that doesn't just require detonating nukes in remote locations, which would be bad enough, but setting megacities on fire, right? And it's not something you can do repeatedly once the effects wear off. Climate change outlasts nuclear winter.
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoJust drop a dozen or so megaton bomb on the Yellowstone caldera and the rest will be taken care of.
- istjohn 8y agoThe Wikipedia page portrays the issue as one with potentially catastrophic consequences, but ultimately as one needing further research. Calthrate fields that previously raised concern were found to be emmitting methane for reasons unrelated to anthropogenic global warming. Calthrates certainly deserve scientific attention, and not enough is being done to address global warming, but we don't know that a calthrate gun has ever fired in the Earth's past, and current theories for how one might be triggered in the near future have yet to be fleshed out in any detail.