• RobotToaster
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    10 days ago

    I thought global warming was going to disrupt the gulf stream and make the UK colder?

    • protist
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      10 days ago

      That hasn’t happened yet and we don’t know for sure if/when it will

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        10 days ago

        It seems to me that the newer the research is the sooner the estimates seem to be getting, so my money is on a collapse before 2050 and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it happens within a decade.

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      10 days ago

      It’s going to overheat first, just long enough for the folks there to spend billions of £ installing air conditioners, and then it’s going to be plunged into a localized ice age.

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        10 days ago

        So you’re saying that for a brief moment in time climate change will create a lot of value for shareholders?

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          10 days ago

          ಠ_ಠ Listen here you little shit.

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          Only for “big HVAC.” For everybody else, it’s just a broken-window fallacy with no upside at all.