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I did a display for the NAS museum in Washington some years ago, about the North Atlantic Conveyor and how Arctic ice melt could redirect it for years, decades.
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
I did a display for the NAS museum in Washington some years ago, about the North Atlantic Conveyor and how Arctic ice melt could redirect it for years, decades. Leaving Britain and Western Europe in a cold snap that could have snow in July for a generation.
See, global warming is like the power failing in your kitchen. The freezer will defrost, leaving the kitchen colder for a time. Until the ice is gone; then it will be hot everywhere forever.
Weather isn't as simple as "Global warming can't be right, because it's cooler at my house!" It's a vast globe-spanning system that runs from the stratosphere to the deepest ocean. And it's all feeling the effects and changing.
- ljf 3y agoI think there are so many possible tipping points out there - some we won't notice until it is far too late, some we may be able to reverse and some the will seem like nothing - until suddenly it becomes rather serious. Fun times ahead.
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- theossuary 3y agoI can't think of any we can reverse. In my mind trying to reverse climate change would be like trying to terraform Venus. It's just so outside the realm of possibility for our current level of engineering.
- ljf 3y agoThe 'some we may be able to reverse' - I'm thinking of things like a lake bursting it's banks - once that happens it may then turn into a river and all the benefit of the lake may be lost - though it may (with will and funding) be reversible. But yes, may of the tipping points we face will be irreversible. As once the lake banks burst once, they are very likely to again and again.