Many people are saying it folks: 4 degrees of warming by the end of the century (even as soon as 2070s) is a real possibility. How much longer do you think the :lmayo: countries in the north can hang on under these conditions?

  • InsideOutsideCatside [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    most likely a Carrington Event-level solar flare

    Good news everyone, it might happen as early as 2025 https://wired.me/science/sun-solar-storm-2025-impact-on-earth/

    Article says 2-3 percent chance of such ahhh event in the 2020s, and that it'd cause enough damage to take maybe a decade to fix

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Essentially every decade will have a 2-3 percent chance of this happening, as the sun's activity runs on an 11 year cycle. This is going to happen eventually, and we are completely unprepared for it, as evidenced by how long the grid goes down for even when there are localized issues.

      • InsideOutsideCatside [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah it's on the list of things that keep me abusing substances to avoid thinking about. I really don't know how civilization would survive when all the machines we need to fix everything get fucked at the same time