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Earth's clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming

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157 points Helmut10001 | 2 comments | 05 Apr 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.524s | source
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kacesensitive ◴[05 Apr 25 13:16 UTC] No.43593217[source]▶
Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day—10,000 times more than humanity uses. Losing just a fraction of our cloud cover means a massive, invisible throttle is coming off the climate system. If this trend holds, we’re not just warming—we’re stepping on the gas.
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amazingamazing ◴[05 Apr 25 13:50 UTC] No.43593530[source]▶
These types of comments are pointless. We are destroying the world. Ok. What’s the solution? All involve pain, but no one wants to talk about that. Tech isn’t going to solve it. For one, the kind of person on this site is contributing literally 10000x more to the issue than the worlds bottom, so we can start there.

People love tech solutions, because then they don’t have to stop consuming and live modestly.

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TheBigSalad ◴[05 Apr 25 13:59 UTC] No.43593606[source]▶
We could solve this problem in a few years with technology if we really wanted to.
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amazingamazing ◴[05 Apr 25 14:05 UTC] No.43593641[source]▶
Not without pain, nope. Reality is the world’s rich are the culprits. If they stop consuming problem solved. No amount of angry downvotes will change this basic fact.

People will learn to live modestly, voluntarily or by force.

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1. Aerroon ◴[05 Apr 25 17:54 UTC] No.43595239[source]▶
Just to be clear though: "the world's rich" here doesn't mean "billionaire CEOs" that a lot of people think of. It means the average American and European.
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2. amazingamazing ◴[05 Apr 25 18:15 UTC] No.43595397[source]▶
Yup