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Greenland's ice is melting at the rate thought as worst-case scenario in 2070
- sambull 7y agoExtinction of the human race so some people could live the really good life for a really short period, how many yachts and front yard golf courses does one needs?
- stefanough 7y agoExtinction won’t come about because the handful of people with yachts and golf courses led really good lives and used a fantastic amount of resources to do so. It’ll come about because hundreds of millions of “regular people” with cheap cars and jet travel led really good lives and used a mere extraordinary amount of resources to do so. And neither group wanted to diminish their standard of living one bit.
- viceroyalbean 7y agoCan someone give some clarity on how bad this is? As I understand it the projected 2070 melt value is the expected average, so if this is an extreme outlier then it might not be as bad as it seems.
- DesiLurker 7y ago"faster than expected" seems to be a common theme with climate change news these days... but so long as its not happening in my lifetime it doesn't matters I guess.
- majewsky 7y ago"Right now" is not in your lifetime?
- DesiLurker 7y agowell if you look at the predicted time for Greenland to melt, its still ~1000 years so skeptic could easily brush it aside with this tongue-in-cheek. btw if its not obvious this was a /s remark.
- nelsonmarcos 7y agoI can’t help but think about “flying car” on 2010.
- DougN7 7y agoI don’t get the 2010 reference, but flying cars are something that might fall into the “just because we can doesn’t mean we should” category. I’m assuming keeping something in the air costs much more energy and pollution than using an axel. Maybe there’s more to it.