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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

The biggest threat is nuclear warming

The fuck?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Pretty much. It's like listening to two people trying to have a detailed conversation about a book, but one of them didn't read it, and read a review of some other book instead, and the second didn't read anything at all, and is just confabulating.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We need to remember that flaming ball of nuclear death in the sky that's cooking us; that's the important nuclear warming.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Quick shoot nukes at it to dissipate the heat!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the better option is to command an army of tigers.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Well you see, the oceanfront properties we already sold will be underwater, so we can build new ones and sell them again!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the risk of being nerd sniped, I wonder if that's true or false. The intuitive answer is with higher sea levels more land would be underwater, meaning the land area has decreased and so its perimeter should decrease; in some cases lowlands like Florida or islands would completely disappear. But low lying basins flooding and turning into bays might offset that...Call XKCD.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Aside from that, if all the current waterfront property goes underwater, then previously undesirable land will slowly become more valuable, once we know where coastlines will land (it depends on when and at what temperature warming starts to flatten out). When that happens, it becomes another avenue for wealth transfer to the rich.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Flatten out? That's optimistic

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

well, eventually we'd run out of ice to melt.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think liquid water still expands when heated, so the oceans would still have quite some potential for sea level rise after the ice was gone.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The guy is just so ignorant.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean new ocean front property is somehow more if you don't remove the lost property. /s

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Knowing Trump he technically meant New ocean front property deals

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're not reducing the 30g chocolate ration. They're increasing it to 25g.

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