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    Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

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    480 points riffraff | 22 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:52 UTC | HN request time: 3.668s | source | bottom
    1. Tokkemon ◴[04 Jul 25 05:29 UTC] No.44461385[source]▶
    Gotta blow the dust off that Day After Tomorrow DVD.
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    2. leke ◴[04 Jul 25 05:32 UTC] No.44461397[source]▶
    To borrow a comment from YouTube

    > The Day After Tomorrow was a documentary.

    3. nandomrumber ◴[04 Jul 25 05:34 UTC] No.44461410[source]▶
    I’ve got two Samsung DVD-M105 players here, brand new, still in box original, never been opened, dispatched from wholesaler in September 2001 if you want to enhance the experience.
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    4. lovich ◴[04 Jul 25 05:41 UTC] No.44461456[source]▶
    I have a non zero desire to take you up on that
    5. dottjt ◴[04 Jul 25 05:42 UTC] No.44461462[source]▶
    what's so special about that model?
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    6. SlowTao ◴[04 Jul 25 06:08 UTC] No.44461581{3}[source]▶
    I'm guessing nothing in particular other than being period correct hardware. Would want to check if the power capacitors are still in good shape.
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    7. mkagenius ◴[04 Jul 25 06:11 UTC] No.44461600{4}[source]▶
    Full bridge rectifier as well
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    8. SwtCyber ◴[04 Jul 25 06:58 UTC] No.44461824[source]▶
    Climate fiction's starting to feel more like a documentary with a bad CGI budget
    9. dzhiurgis ◴[04 Jul 25 07:01 UTC] No.44461839{5}[source]▶
    What happens to them?
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    10. whitehexagon ◴[04 Jul 25 07:35 UTC] No.44462084[source]▶
    Another heatwave here last week, and I somehow found myself watching that DVD. It as aged quite well, but I found it annoying that they spent half the movie burning books to keep warm, and yet are sourounded by wooden furniture.

    On that topic, the book series including 'Fifty Degrees Below' by Kim Stanley Robinson is worth a read. I think I got that reading tip from HN, or maybe it was his Mars triology, which also has some nice planetary science stuff.

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    11. ainiriand ◴[04 Jul 25 07:43 UTC] No.44462139[source]▶
    We've been here in Valencia (Spain) over 30C since early June: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/spain/valencia/historic?...

    It is absolutely not normal.

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    12. CalRobert ◴[04 Jul 25 07:54 UTC] No.44462221[source]▶
    Perhaps it was an attempt at symbolism
    13. arethuza ◴[04 Jul 25 08:07 UTC] No.44462306[source]▶
    I recommend KSR's The Ministry for the Future
    14. walthamstow ◴[04 Jul 25 08:21 UTC] No.44462387[source]▶
    In London it has barely rained since the start of May, after the sunniest and warmest spring on record. Obviously as an Englishman that sounds pretty great to me but it is not typical at all.

    https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-c...

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    15. zelphirkalt ◴[04 Jul 25 08:30 UTC] No.44462431[source]▶
    Close to where I live they declared the dryest year in more than 100 years, as it rains so rarely.
    16. smidgeon ◴[04 Jul 25 08:38 UTC] No.44462483{3}[source]▶
    As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be sightings of exotic predators (puma, leopard) by little old ladies in the next weeks ...
    17. ta1243 ◴[04 Jul 25 08:39 UTC] No.44462492{3}[source]▶
    Great for people sitting out on their patios and having barbecues.

    Not great for food production. The UK is close enough to a wealthy nation that we should be able to import our food or make enough with high energy/resource requirements. There is a general problem with a lack of resources (hence all the global conflict going on now. Trump doesn't want Greenland because he looked at a Mercator map and got size envy due to his tiny hands, the resources there will go to China, Russia, Europe or the US), but that can be overcome.

    The dirty secret of global warming is that Europe can't take a billion climate refugees - even the most bleeding heart liberals will baulk at the UK population increasing from 70m to 200m in a generation, its not sustainable.

    America has less of a problem - the population of Central and South America between about 30N and 30S is 500 million. The population of Africa and Asia in that boundary is about 4.5 billion, and as those areas become uninhabitable due to wet bulb temperatures and water scarcity, people will either die or try to move north - mainly to Europe.

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    18. pastage ◴[04 Jul 25 09:35 UTC] No.44462903{6}[source]▶
    FWIW the decade of capacitor plague destroyed at least two of my AC/DC Converters. I haven't seen magic smoke since 2010, and honestly know little about it.
    19. walthamstow ◴[04 Jul 25 10:38 UTC] No.44463275{4}[source]▶
    I've long thought that some nonzero part the wave of anti immigration sentiment of the last 10 years is politicians knowing that what you say is coming and positioning themselves early. Then they get to be "right all along" and we'll have the Navy patrolling the shores, sinking dinghys.
    20. ReptileMan ◴[04 Jul 25 11:38 UTC] No.44463627{4}[source]▶
    >people will either die or try to move north - mainly to Europe.

    Building a fence with self aiming and shooting turrets shouldn't be that hard. We only need to militarize couple of choke points and it should solve itself. Bulgaria Greece borders, the islands and gibraltar.

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    21. ta1243 ◴[04 Jul 25 12:46 UTC] No.44464033{5}[source]▶
    Waves via Russia then across the Europe/Russia border which is very long. Russia and Belarus borders with the EU is longer than the US/Mexico border. You've then got the maritime border.

    There's then the political implication of shooting thousands of desperate refugees.

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    22. ReptileMan ◴[04 Jul 25 13:04 UTC] No.44464171{6}[source]▶
    There is no problem. They will be returned to russia and belarus.

    >There's then the political implication of shooting thousands of desperate refugees.

    Yeah, the party of the shooters will be reelected.