It’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
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We did it ! We Terraformed a planet ! Earth, a planet that was exactly as perfect as it gets for us to live on it, we Terraformed it into a suffocating hell.
Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we're making it more earth like when we're doing the opposite.
Can earth become less earth-like? I'd argue that we're changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
well, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that.
that we're doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
Technically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
WOO! IN YOUR FACE, CYANOBACTERIA OF 2 BILLION YEARS AGO! WE DID IT IN RECORD TIME!
(2ish BYA cyanobacteria in the ocean produced oxygen, but nothing had yet developed protection from oxidation, thus killing almost everything living)
So that's how they get their religious thing.
Just wait a few years, and soon we'll see a hive colonies everywhere.
Imagine the futur, with underground cities sprawling deep under the surface, people living to mine the rare earth in devotion for the saint GPU !
Change has an effect in both ways, positive and negative, and unfortunately we tend to focus only on the negative.
We're fucked. Glad I'm on the older side, don't have kids, and got to experience this world before we utterly fucked it.
It's true - it was beautiful before The Great Burn.
I feel so guilty for having my kids
I sweat with minimal exertion - combination of a sedentary lifestyle plus SSRIs fucking with body temp regulation. Always thought I might be comfy in the arctic circle. So much for that, I guess.
SciAm unable to call out Big Oil.
They were just sold, and fired a lot of the better writers
That would explain it. Sold to which billionaire?
Scientific American was sold to LabX Media Group, which also acquired Discover magazine in 2024.
Layoffs were expected:
SciAm staff tried to unionized in April with WGAE (Writers Guild of America East), but it seems that in the end, 15 staff were cut out of around 40, and union busting measures were taken by the new owners
As far as I was able to find, Bob Kafato and Ken Piech are listed as founders. Besides that, a quick search did not come up with too much information on their networth, unfortunately
In addition to LabX, the group includes Lab Manager, The Scientist, Technology Networks, Drug Discovery News, IFLScience, Discover and now Scientific American as far as I could find.
If you ever hear the phrase “on par with Orlando, FL” then you know shits fucked. Context is irrelevant
This summer has been ominous as fuck. Anytime I’ve pointed it out most people don’t realize what I mean… If you’re in tune with the natural system of weather you recognize a shift like this. It’s been getting slowly worse over the last few years… but this year has been really really different. We are so fucked.
Not to mention how few bugs there are anymore. You dont even have to clean off your windshield after an 8 hour drive anymore
My place is usually prettey mildly temperatured, not too hot and not too cold, but this years it was unbearable and sometimes the hottest place in Europe. Shit's fucked beyond saving
I grew up in Cleveland, and not once in my entire life did we ever have problems with CANADIAN wild fires. It's all wet up there, I didn't think anything could burn. Now it's a regular thing.
That's not normal.
Yeah we’ve been having dust storms like abnormal ones. We barely will get them and this year we’ve had multiple it’s been dusty all week. It makes me irrationally pissed off… except it’s not all that irrational. Fuck anyone who has a part in all of this.
Imagine how I feel in mother fucking Cincinnati.
The speed in which the talking point became "Everything has always been like this" to conservatives is mindboggling.
Everyone concurs
Except our oligarch overlords and their shareholders.
Oh no, they concur. They decided their greed is worth everyon'e collective suffering.
Every day we do nothing is letting them continue it.
The rich decided to ignore clikmate change and sabotage climate research long before any of us were born.
They knew about this shit in the 1800s.
I wish. Imagine how nice things would be if everybody was smart and sane.
The amount of carbon and methane sequestered in the arctic is staggering....and when it heats up, that's going to start off gassing...
And then Earth ran a fever to try to get rid of the parasites. The parasites will have to adapt to survive, though, some were already changing to a less aggressive bleeding of the earth, in hopes that they will go out saying, "I bit the least!" before starving to death.
Beachfront property.... Here we go! You, know, plus sunamis and terrible weather.
I just need to know how bad, how fast.
Mostly because I miss cigarettes and if I don't need to have quit, I would like them back thanks.
Depends on if we're talking peacefully buying them at the shop, or bartering for them in the ruins of civilization. It's hard to tell for sure because there's a bit of a multiplier effect in play when the Arctic seafloor starts heating up.
Also by no means is the Arctic the only big "threshold" around the corner.
If you ask me again tomorrow morning, maybe I'd have a more hopeful answer or platitude ready.
But this late at night? Smoke 'em if you got them. I personally already "un-quit".