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FreyrPrime t1_jbpxj31 wrote

Reply to comment by jetstobrazil in La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone by LifeTableWithChairs

Yeah, the Jet and Gulf streams are serious causes for concerns, and would absolutely play havoc with the world that we know.

I'm just of the opinion that our technology will insulate us against the worst of it. I could easily be wrong, in fact history says I likely will be.

We've experienced collapses in civilization and 'dark ages' because of climate change at least once before, the Bronze Age.

I think our current civilization is both more resilient than ancient cultures, and at the same time much more fragile. Our technology should make it considerably more difficult to experience a significant collapse, but once it starts I think we we would be much worse off than previous civilizations.

Billions would die from stuff we take for granted on a daily basis.

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jetstobrazil t1_jbpwi01 wrote

Reply to comment by FreyrPrime in La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone by LifeTableWithChairs

A big part of the reason weather is predictable now is because of the reliability of the jet stream and Gulf Stream, which are both weakening due to climate change. Once these are sufficiently weakened, predictability of weather patterns critical for travel through air or weather will absolutely be affected enough to all but halt these methods of travel, unless we innovate or begin delivering in subs.

It’s hard to tell how quickly all of this will happen of course and to what degree it will affect us when, but my own personal belief is that with every study seeming to underestimate the effects, it doesn’t seem far enough off to not plan for.

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beastmaster11 t1_jbpvwe9 wrote

Reply to comment by ToxicBanana69 in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

The last nazi death camp was liberated when she was 15. So not like she was an infant that didn't remember the horrors.

But in all honesty before I did the math I though she would be older. To me, all senior citizens were alive at the time but I am realizing that we will soon be in a situation where nobody that was a victim of these horrors will be around to tell us about them making it easier to downplay

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HereOnASphere t1_jbpvqk9 wrote

Reply to comment by IntrigueDossier in La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone by LifeTableWithChairs

I dug weirs across a horse-damaged hill that had no plant life except a few daisies. I was able to mostly stop erosion and got some grasses growing. I tried for several years to get native western red cedar established, but they never took. I finally planted a grove of Sequoias, which are now getting big. Even when most of the topsoil is gone, keeping the remaining soil damp can promote plant growth and regeneration.

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BagisBerra t1_jbptonx wrote

Reply to comment by sciolisticism in Biden administration releases Guantánamo inmate, its fourth transfer in a month by LifeTableWithChairs

Good point. I think that today, when we have authoritarian leaders in countries like China and russia committing terrible crimes against humanity, it is more important than ever to hold ourselves to higher standards, the moral high ground. If we are the good guys, and they are the bad guys, then now is a good time to act like it.

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FreyrPrime t1_jbpq7cw wrote

Reply to comment by TheSlartey in La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone by LifeTableWithChairs

A close call is probably more accurate. I live on the gulf side and Cuba acts like an enormous shield normally. Most Hurricane's gut themselves on Cuba's mountains and fail to regain enough strength to really be a threat to my area of the gulf coast.

However, occasionally they linger in the gulf for a crazy amount of time and then slam into my neck of the woods, like Ian did.

Honestly, Ian wouldn't have been awful had it not been moving so slow. 6-8 hours of sustained category 4+ winds is what did it (if you didn't get storm surged). My house didn't start taking wind damage till well after the 4 hour mark.

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