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Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035, latest climate model predicts
- sawaruna 6y agoThe lowering of the planet’s albedo through melting ice sounds like the most worrisome runaway effect.
- pastrami_panda 6y agoYeah there are a couple of really scary factors that might compound into a catastrophe. The Arctic permafrost is another such factor, it might amount to a twelve fold increase in atmosphere methane content if thawed.
- User23 6y agoI wish I could trade on climate model predictions. I think the notion that anyone can predict a chaotic system 15 years out is ridiculous, but i also think there are plenty of people who for some reason believe it can be done, and I'd like to take the other side of that trade.
- voxl 6y agoMan you must think the field of astronomy is full of only quacks then, it's got climate as a subsystem!
- smabie 6y agoYou can trade weather futures: rain, temperature, etc. You can also indirectly express a climate investment viewpoint by trading commodities,though that'll be a little messier.
- dTal 6y agoYou can! Buy some property on the Floridian East Coast. I hear the values there have taken a beating due to sea level rise...