• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
    ·
    3 months ago

    They know why.

    Never believe these cowardly fucks when they try to absolve themselves of knowledge of environmental collapse.

    • Eco [she/her, he/him]
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      2 months ago

      i mean even if they know the cause of the cause that's not the same as knowing the cause if you get me

      it's probably more accurate to say they don't know what climate change-induced process is causing the cooling but that's not as good a headline

      • propter_hog [any, any]
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        2 months ago

        This. I work at a research lab and we don't know shit about shit. Sure, we can gesture vaguely at anthropogenic climate change, but that doesnt get you published.

      • HamManBad [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        The fact that it's probably several different climate-induced processes causing the change makes it very difficult to establish causality. All we know definitively is that shits fucked

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    bypass paywall: https://archive.is/VQk3s

    I would have assumed it was due to a weakening of the North Equatorial/Gulf Stream Current. the IPCC Sixth Assessment said that would be a thing that happens, though it probably wouldn't collapse entirely.

    even so, a weakening would have dramatic impacts.

    kinda surprised it isn't mentioned in the article as a "maybe" or whatever.

    • gueybana [any]
      ·
      3 months ago

      probably wouldn't collapse entirely

      probably

      agony-shivering

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
      ·
      3 months ago

      The AMOC weakening was my first thought as well. In fact there was a previous study that predicted this could happen around 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    It's an updraft of cope ium, judging by how so many people are taking it during consistent global temperature average increases.