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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 (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] 140 points 2 months ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we're making it more earth like when we're doing the opposite.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Can earth become less earth-like? I'd argue that we're changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    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)

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