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Ultimately the Earth will warm up, the ice caps melt, the coasts lose as the seas rise 10m
by downrightmike 2y ago
Ultimately the Earth will warm up, the ice caps melt, the coasts lose as the seas rise 10m
- mempko 2y agoAnd potentially organized human life collapses
- erikpukinskis 2y agoIs that possible? Can you describe the chain of events that would lead to that? Seems vanishingly unlikely to me, on the face of it, but I admit I am not read up on all the possible doomsday scenarios.
- aorloff 2y agoit all started with the invention of Ice9
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- ForOldHack 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle
- fencepost 2y agoThere wouldn't be a single factor driving it but a combination of many factors. Loss of coastline (and cities built along it) including greater susceptibility to storms for unaffected areas will obviously have economic costs, highly increased weather and storm variability will be significant (think monsoon rains, "atmospheric river," etc.), increased drought in some areas due to both temperature and weather pattern changes (see western US water rights among the states as the civil portion of this), mass movements of refugees (sure the US can close the southern border, but what happens if you get 50,000 migrants all deciding to come over at once in one area? Are you simply going to shoot all of them?). Human extinction seems very unlikely, but the collapse of the infrastructure that allows creation of the infrastructure that allows modern life? That could be much more likely, particularly when you factor in military conflicts as well as purely climate-based changes and losses.
- energy123 2y agoThe equator contains billions of people. It's quite hot around there. Wet bulb temperatures often near the edge of survivability outdoors. It's worse now with 1-1.5C warming. If we don't stop, and we get to 3-5C warming, this could lead to large scale migration to Europe in pursuit of liveable climate. And warming won't stop unless we stop emitting greenhouse gases.
- nntwozz 2y agoOil wars. We are killing for guzzoline. The world is running out of water. Now there's the water wars. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.
- h4ck_th3_pl4n3t 2y agoHow great that all large cities in the US are not at the coasts and none of them are even below sea level. Oh, wait...
- ineedaj0b 2y agoi see someone didn't enjoy the trip to venice.
- downrightmike 2y agoI will in a decade ;) Scuba fun
- gosub100 2y agoNot that it changes the outcome, but I swear I remember reading that the majority of sea-level rise actually comes from the thermal expansion of liquid water, not displacement from thawing of ice caps. Can anyone confirm/refute this?
- ForOldHack 2y agohttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/whats-causing-sea-level-rise-land-ice-vs-sea-ice/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/lesson-plan/whats-cau...
- tim333 2y agoI think it's 90m? It's pretty slow though like 1m/century and probably like 50cm this one.