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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

No quick fix to reverse ‘astonishing’ Antarctic sea ice loss: Scientists

www.aljazeera.com

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No quick fix to reverse ‘astonishing’ Antarctic sea ice loss: Scientists

www.aljazeera.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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This year’s sea ice minimum is 20 percent lower than the average over the last 40 years, researchers say.
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    Oh you mean we can’t just cover Antarctica with Styrofoam? Shoot!

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      You joke, but just wait till the billionaires start enacting geoengineering schemes unilaterally.

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        Why would they do that? It’s cheaper to just build a mansion in newly tropical Svalbard island.

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          I hear Mars is nice this time of year.

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          Hubris is the reason why billionaires do what they do most of the time. Trying to do geoengineering is precisely the kind of a grand scheme these people would try.

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        Yeah I was only mostly joking.

        I’ve definitely heard variations of calls to insulate and whiten the poles.

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          Same, also seen proposals for doing stuff like seeding reflective particles in the atmosphere and other wild ideas. I fully expect that at some point it’s going to come to that because the disasters are going to lead to desperate measures.

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            Snowpiercer here we come!

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      Or get a giant ice cube from space

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