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Dramatic climate action needed to curtail ‘crazy’ extreme weather (theguardian.com)
5 points by myshpa 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Also, can you please not use HN primarily for ideological battle? It looks like you've been doing this as well and that's another line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what they're battling for or against. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.


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"If the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted entirely, it would raise global sea levels by around 200 feet (60 meters)"

Cool, I live 62 meters above sea level.

It says something that the first three or so sea level rise visualizers I found don't go as high as 60 meters.


Most sea-level-rise visualisers are looking at the next 50--75 years, through about 2100 CE.

A total melting of Antarctica is possible, but would take a minimum of 500 years, and quite possibly much longer (thousands of years), though major thresholds such as critical ice shelves melting (and causing sea-level rises of 3+ metres) could occur within decades.

<https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/will-antarctica...>

<https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/antar...>



The earth has oscillated between a snowball and a hot house throughout history[1]. To think that change is something we can stop is unhelpful, we need to, and will, adapt despite the doomers claim that all will end in calamity (they must do this for the clicks)

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-colde....



what's your point with this?


Don't ignore the speed of changes.

https://xkcd.com/1732/


Does this apply to our technologies for dealing with climate change?


What technologies?


People have lots of ideas. I don't know if any of them are good ideas, but still:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering




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