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Total_Customer_6627 t1_jaa3fbo wrote

I wonder if we’re already fucked, or if we have time to prevent us from being fucked.

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SuspiciousStable9649 t1_jaa8csq wrote

checks notes …fucked. Yep, we’re fucked.

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awfulsome t1_jab9426 wrote

fucked. If all emissions stopped today, it is estimated that it would take 500 years to return to normal, and no matter how green the agenda, emissions will not his zero unless the human population does.

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kingofpotatopeople92 t1_jaatq99 wrote

"I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished. If none of us make it, at least there'll be some kind of record. The storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. We still have nothing to go on.

[Briefly turns off tape recorder and takes a drink of whisky. He looks at the torn long johns and turns it back on]

One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found some shredded long johns, but the nametag was missing. They could be anybody's. Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired.

[turns off tape recorder then turns it back on after a short pause]

Nothing else I can do, just wait...

R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost number 31."

[turns off recorder]

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Fox_Kurama t1_jaaxk0l wrote

When you started talking about the storm, I thought for a moment it was a Frostpunk reference. Then I remembered they don't have tape recordings yet in that series.

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Athoughtfulseizing t1_jackwof wrote

I like to think even if we are fucked, it's still worth trying to be less fucked, because if we don't we'll be REALLY fucked.

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Batcraft10 t1_jaequg1 wrote

It’s pretty much 99% chance that places like Fiji and Maldives are fucked. Humanity as a whole will likely figure it out. Not before we start seeing catastrophic disasters, unfortunately, like mass die offs in Indian cities as a result of too high humidity + heat

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ArBui t1_jac4mpb wrote

Probably not. This place is full of doom but if you click into articles or read the scientific papers and watch interviews with the scientists themselves and not the media's BS clickbait interpretation of what they or their papers have said, none of them are presenting doomed planet malarkey because it's not the case.

E.g. This article is full of maybes, likelies, possiblies, and also notes it will be several years yet before it's understood if what's happening is really going to have any effect on anything down the line.

Even more, you see lot of people worrying about the sea ice itself melting raising the ocean levels - which is tarded because sea ice is already in the ocean and so it won't raise the ocean levels. The further details being investigated for years to come are about it possibly maybe affecting the land ice.

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liquid_cherry t1_jabbo8c wrote

Ive read we have about 10 years left.

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Drywesi t1_jabgkh5 wrote

we had roughly ten years to cease all carbon emission in 2019~2020. The consequences of not doing that are spread over the next 50+ years, roughly.

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clarkrd t1_jablcn6 wrote

so, are we at level 10 of the FAFO scale? I plan on retiring to Northern Vermont in 10 years. Too late?

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Drywesi t1_jabmonx wrote

Depends on an awful lot of factors. Weather's going to get more unpredictable tho, and likely harsher in its extremes. It wouldn't surprise me to see significant sea level rise and consequent shoreline loss on the East Coast in the next 20ish years. Which is going to change how things shake out up there.

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ChooglinOnDown t1_jabvgog wrote

> are we at level 10 of the FAFO scale?

Worse, we're at Level One. We're just now barely beginning to feel the effects.

If you're young, your children will live worse and shorter lives than you. Your grandchildren are going to be deprived.

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