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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18480 on: 19/03/2021 12:48:39 »
Two studies.

One about the AMOC, a combination of streams at different depths that drives the circulation of cold and hot water around our globe. " Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium "

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00699-z

Another about the 'North Atlantic cold anomaly.' observed  " Drivers of exceptionally cold North Atlantic Ocean temperatures and their link to the 2015 European heat wave "  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074004

Both due to global warming, but not the exact same,  The AMOC a result over a long time study, the North Atlantic cold anomaly a result of a relatively short period of time.

And that said we can go to this. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/02/climate/atlantic-ocean-climate-change.html

You can't draw the conclusion that the short time anomaly becomes a proof of the long term study, well, at least not yet.
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A pdf of the keyfindings from the study over the AMOC. https://phys.org/pdf533465231.pdf
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18481 on: 19/03/2021 12:59:26 »
And you want to wait until 2050, or was that 2060 China?

Well, it will give us statistics. The problem with those being that they will be all too late. 30 years too late.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18482 on: 19/03/2021 13:31:36 »
There's a lot of tricky questions to this, as f.ex how much oxygen is transferred by those streams, and what would that mean? Also that the oceans lose part of its uptake of CO2 due to the circulation slowing down. it becomes a worse 'sink' of green house gasses. And what about acidity? It's like you using a mixer, then stopping. Then we have fiercer storms, ocean rise at some places in the USA, colder winters and hotter summers in Europe. And I think we will find other effects coming from it too. And heat distribution altered


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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18483 on: 19/03/2021 13:49:02 »
Well, I've been worried about the methane stored in the tundra and shallow waters for a long time. It's one of those really difficult 'drivers' if it comes to be, About 85 times as effective of storing heat in the atmosphere than Carbon dioxide over twenty years. It would probably become a major nail in our coffin, leading to a major tipping.

So I hope he's wrong.  https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/15/menacing-methane-an-analysis/

Btw, so is he. Hoping that he is wrong I mean.

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« Reply #18484 on: 19/03/2021 13:59:20 »
Then there is this, you'll have to read it first.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/earths-oxygen-levels-can-affect-its-climate-180955572/

the conclusion seems at first correct. But if we mix more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere? 'Diluting' the oxygen particles? Doesn't that change the equation? Or does the balance stay the same giving the same conclusion?
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« Reply #18485 on: 19/03/2021 14:05:56 »
I don't know about you but I don't give a sh* for our hierarchies. I don't give a sh* for our politicians, rulers, dictators, representative democracies,  any of it.       I call it all the game.
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« Reply #18486 on: 19/03/2021 14:07:13 »
I don't give a sh* for our real politik and geopolitics either.
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« Reply #18487 on: 19/03/2021 14:10:49 »
The things I do care about is simple. Our earth, my kids, their kids, inequality, wars and injustice.
Simple things.
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« Reply #18488 on: 19/03/2021 14:18:58 »
Much of that injustice and inequality is supported by us, in different disguises as arms sales. also by being the worst examples of pollutions, consumptions and emissions, exporting it all over the globe. It doesn't excuse us that it wouldn't be any different if it was someone else, in our position. We can change it but we won't change it playing this game.
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« Reply #18489 on: 19/03/2021 14:33:25 »
You have several trends accelerating, none of which you act on.

Topsoil deteriorating
Water and groundwater
Oceans acidity and oxygen loss
Wild fires and extreme weather
droughts and floods
Artificial fertilizers and pesticides
mono plantations and your overall mono thinking.
Eco and biodiversity shrinking
Carbon dioxide and now methane
small arm wars growing
migrations
deforestation's
Overpopulation
Over-consumption



you're incredibly incompetent.

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« Reply #18490 on: 19/03/2021 14:34:25 »
And the games conclusion?

Geoengineerings.
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« Reply #18491 on: 19/03/2021 14:38:50 »
Yeah, I forgot. Your nuclear proliferation. The Armageddon that is your ultimate shield. Not one shelter but a lot of bombs, right? Well, you don't need those shelters anyway, not as it looks today.
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« Reply #18492 on: 19/03/2021 14:44:25 »
And micro plastics padding in your brain. But that will be a relief to you, the less you know.
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« Reply #18493 on: 19/03/2021 15:01:35 »
Do you even understand that this game needs to be broken? That you won't change a thing without getting that democracy? That you can't trust 'elite's ' to lead you any longer. I suspect you think of a real democracy as something of an utopia that can't come true.

Well, the real 'utopia' is the one you're living in, and it's coming crashing down all around you by now.


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« Reply #18494 on: 19/03/2021 16:42:12 »
I guess some might want to call this a geoengineering too.  Mr Zimov calls it a ark.

I think I will call call it a last ditch attempt to slow it down.

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2020/12/19/one-russian-scientist-hopes-to-slow-the-thawing-of-the-arctic

we will see more of that.
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« Reply #18496 on: 19/03/2021 16:58:42 »
I've never understood the way people degrade Russian science. I can understand questioning 'political'  interpretations of it, as how the USSR used to present some of it, but this is Bona fide science. Done the way it should be done. It was the same with the Chernobyl accident, science not fitting our western expectations getting underestimated and/or ignored.
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« Reply #18497 on: 19/03/2021 17:07:54 »
You know, writing about it makes me sad, it makes me angry, it makes me want to get drunk.
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« Reply #18498 on: 19/03/2021 17:19:43 »
We're digging our graves. And the only hope I can give as it looks today is that you might be gone before it gets impossible. Your wars won't change it, migrations won't change it. You politicians will keep on playing the same game of geopolitics, real politik, 'pledges' and signatures. While your military prepares for Armageddon. And you k* ass
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« Reply #18499 on: 19/03/2021 17:22:02 »
I'm starting to think the same about you as I do about our so called 'elite's, you not being worth the ground you walk on.
you become a traitor to everything worth preserving.
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