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[+] -18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Cause that funding would have prevented that hurricane...

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It can help limit how hot the water gets, and therefore how quickly future storms intensify.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, i got that. Wasnt saying that we shouldnt be working towards fixing the issue, was more a comment on the wording of the article like it would have prevent this particular storm lol. Was sarcasm mostly.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm curious, what could Florida do to reduce ocean temperatures with this money?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I just saw a video that showed it's possible the pollution that cargo ships were emitting were actually seeding enough clouds to somewhat limit the sunlight that hit and warmed the ocean. This effect stopped recently when they were ordered to stop emitting so much of that pollution.

    If it's true they were actually helping accidentally, we could spray ocean water and the salt could actually seed clouds in the same way.

    If it works, it would be like a bandaid on climate change to keep the ocean temps a few degrees cooler for awhile.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    They can limit their own greenhouse gas emissions, by doing things like subsidizing the conversion of homes which currently use fossil fuels for heating, hot water heating, and cooking to not do so, as well as subsidize solar panels on home roofs.

    This won't lower temperatures from where they are now, but it does reduce the future increase.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Also, it let's people know the issue is serious. If places like Florida that are suffering the effects of climate change already don't take it seriously, when it's to their benefit now, why should other places do anything when it doesn't affect them yet.

    Of course they should, and it will.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If they would extract heat from the air or even the water, it would actually help. Not by leaps and bounds but it would at least be carbon negative.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning.

    That's why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It can help limit how hot the water gets

    Huh?

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