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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean

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480 points riffraff | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dang ◴[04 Jul 25 09:51 UTC] No.44463006[source]▶
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integricho ◴[04 Jul 25 05:08 UTC] No.44461280[source]▶
It does not sound like a subtle signal or warning about crossing a threshold, more like a we are already past the point of no return and now we can just sit back and watch as the apocalypse unfolds, first row seats for all recent generations.
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delusional ◴[04 Jul 25 05:12 UTC] No.44461302[source]▶
Climate advocates in general try to avoid implying that we've already crossed a threshold, as that breeds hopelessness.

They want decisive and ambitious action, you can't get that if we all turn to doomerism.

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1. atoav ◴[04 Jul 25 05:57 UTC] No.44461536[source]▶
Yes sure. But as someone who was a kid in the 90s all my life I learned about how climate change is the biggest challenge to humanity. Yet all my life I have seen grown adults pretend it doesn't exist, and when that was no longer avoidable they pretended is was natural and when that was no longer defendable... You get the idea. And I grew up in a part of the world where you could see the glaciers melting with your own eyes.

The doom of climate change is mostly people to dumb to understand the most basic of models or (worse) unwilling to do so on ideological grounds. I already decided not to have children in my life because I think it is irresponsible to put them into this world. We will have enough climate migration anyways.

The truth is that there are tripping points that are extremely hard to reverse and may or may not trigger other tripping points. Reading these risks as a reason not to care is the opposite of what should happen.

And then you figure out what the real reason is to burn the world: some rich fucks trying to extract a few thousand dollars per second more f4om the r3st of us.