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Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What opportune time? Climate change has been an issue for decades.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By opportune time, I mean the season of voting we are in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're in America, I assume?

Nah, I still don't see it. There's been stories all along like this.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Right now, it's typically the left that benefits from "global warming" scare tactics. Y'all are right. This has been going on for a long time. "Climate change" is what it's called these days. They couldn't continue with "warming" because not everywhere is "warming."

"Climate change" has been an issue since 1900. Look it up. And there is always a claim that "climate change will end the world in 20 years!"

The polar ice caps haven't melted. Sea level hasn't risen at all... they said NY would be underwater by now.

I don't know... maybe we will feel the wrath of climate change someday, but so far, everything is fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Everywhere is warming on average. Where I am is noticaebly warmer and dryer to the point nobody can deny it anymore. The ice caps are noticeably melting. Nobody said NY would be underwater, unless you thought The Day After Tomorrow was a documentary.

I don't need to look it up, because I actually read actual science. It did indeed start a little by 1900, because we started burning significant amounts of coal around 1800. We burn a lot more fossil fuels now. Do you need a graph of CO2 PPM, and the same graph of global temperature you've definitely seen on TV? Do you need a primer on infrared transparency vs. visible and how that effects energy balance? I can do that, but I'm guessing you're just going to call me a faggot and leave.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

First, I would never call you a *removed."

... brb

I might be tripping.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The polar ice caps haven't melted. Sea level hasn't risen at all...

From NASA: Antarctica is losing ice mass (melting) at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year, and Greenland is losing about 270 billion tons per year, adding to sea level rise.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/?intent=121

Global average sea level has risen 8–9 inches (21–24 centimeters) since 1880. In 2023, global average sea level set a new record high—101.4 mm (3.99 inches) above 1993 levels.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level