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More than 40 of the world's leading climate scientists have warned Northern European leaders of imminent disaster due to the collapse of key currents in the Atlantic Meridional Circulation (AMOC). (en.vedur.is)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

major, interconnected nonlinear changes

I have been studying systems theory recently, and "interconnected nonlinear changes" is always code for "wildly unstable". It's not usually even possible/feasible to control these changes, so people who believe that Geo-engineering will save are probably being delusional.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Geoengineering is just another version of "we'll invent some future technology that will solve all of this."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed. I've always read geo engineering to be up there with carbon capture as bullshit.

Even the "modest" cloud seeding or reflective crap in the atmosphere had the addendum of making enormous chunks of the global south unlivable. Which makes them read more as fantasy implements of mass genocide than anything remotely palliative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I implore you to not dismiss carbon capture as a whole as bullshit. Don't let crackkkers make you think it's a magic "solution"

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