This chart is terrifying!
It reminds me of the XKCD temperature chart: https://xkcd.com/1732/
It reminds me of the XKCD temperature chart: https://xkcd.com/1732/
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...
less oxygen = less life
less life = less food
less food = less human
And yes, we would also have to kill part of China, especially the cities
This thread is silly. To reduce the world population you don't need to kill anyone at all. You simply look for ways to reduce birth rates.
(The second part for sure, judging by you gettin' downvoted to oblivion.)
The electricity that feeds my computer allowing me to type this comment comes from the local power plant, which is fossil-fuel based (coal and natural gas). Shall I be put to death? Or am I far enough removed, and instead perhaps the CEO of the utility company? Or considering that they answer to the shareholders, maybe anybody who owns shares? Considering that it's a publicly-traded company that serves roughly 4% of the landmass of the continental US, that's quite a lot of people.
In the end, nobody burns polluting coal and gas for fun. They do it because it's the economical choice; if we could all have abundant clean energy from fusion power at the wave of a wand, we would do it. The fact remains that "problems" cannot be "solved" as much as they need to be weighed against the tradeoffs; there is no free lunch, and the scarce time and resources that can be spent "solving" something can be equally spent somewhere else. I'm afraid that the desire of some people to classify the problem of the changing climate as a categorical imperative that must be "solved" at any cost does not change the underlying reality, which is that "at any cost" is an impossible thing in real life.
Look up rolling coal. But yes, most people don't.
less greenhouse gas emissions = less greenhouse gas
less greenhouse gas = cooler waters
Seems the problem is eventually self correcting.
Woman inherits the earth.
(Best line delivery in the movie)
The context is that atmospheric gases are trapping more and more solar energy.
The same unit of energy that transforms a mass of zero degree ice to zero degree water can also transform that same mass of zero degree water to ~ 76 degree Celsius water (over two thirds of the way from almost ice to boiling).
Once there's significantly less ice to buffer the increasing solar energy the water gets much hotter much faster.
ADDED: It's unfair to savagely downvote my parent jansan for asking "Why?" Not everybody is across the potential consequences here.