Experts described the accelerated growth of the flowers in Antarctica's South Orkney Islands due to climate change as a 'tipping point'
      • IHeartBadCode
        7•9 months ago

        They’re the ones

        Who like all our pretty cash

        And they’ll turn our planet to ash

        And they won’t stop until it’s crashed

        But they’ll always seize the means

        Always seize the means…

  • @FUCKRedditMods@lemm.eeEnglish
    42•9 months ago

    And still people deny climate change.

    “THEY’VE BEEN SAYING THE SKY IS FALLING SINCE THE 70’S AND NOTHING HAPPENED! IT’S ALL BOGUS”

    Dumb fucking cunts, it’s BEEN happening. 50 years might as well be overnight on earth’s lifespan, but even if this shit happened literally overnight you’d have these stupid fucking mouthbreathers saying “NUH UH”

    I don’t get it. When did republicans start hating science? What is their vested interest in denying climate change? It’s literally just the republican thing to do now so they do it, and then call the rest of brainwashed for good measure.

    It makes me want to slam my fucking head into the wall I cannot wrap my mind around their fucking stupidity.

    • squiblet
      17•9 months ago

      One, they’ve been heavily propagandized for decades by oil companies. The whole “in the 70s scientists warned of a coming ice age!” and “junk science HOAX!” bullshit. Part of their belief is the contrarian “if democrats believe this, I believe the opposite” stupidity that’s become common. Also, since they’re reactionaries, they loathe the idea of anything changing, so they fear “they’re taking away my gas guzzling truck!” or “I don’t WANT an electric chainsaw!”.

    • @starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16•9 months ago

      “Scientists keep moving the goalposts!”

      Because we’ve been running over the goalposts like a goddamn freight train. First it was about avoiding mass extinctions. Oops, too late. Then it was about saving coral reefs. Oops, too late. Then it was about avoiding massive worsening chaotic weather systems. Oops, too late. Now it’s about reducing the severity of the droughts and floods. Now it’s about keeping the oncoming death toll in the hundreds of millions instead of billions.

  • @Draghetta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    39•9 months ago

    Since when is unilad a reputable source?

    I struggled to find this story on any outlet that isn’t a tabloid, an official-sounding never-heard-before bumfucknowhere gazette or a repeater like msn.

    The original article seems to be from the guardian (quoted as such by the university itself) in a far less sensationalist way. It was written so long ago that people still thought Russia was a superpower, unilad decided to sensationalise it and publish it as fresh news one and a half years later.

    The story is worrying don’t get me wrong, but this is just doom porn.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    18•9 months ago

    Fifty thousand years from now, when humanity clings to existence near the poles on an otherwise inhospitable world, those living in Antarctica will thank their ancestors for making it a lush sanctuary.

    • @FUCKRedditMods@lemm.eeEnglish
      18•9 months ago

      Very bold of you to assume humanity still exists in 50,000 years. It’s been 100 since industrialization and everything has already gone to shit and is only getting worse more and more rapidly.

      • @starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6•9 months ago

        We’ll still be around. Humans are uniquely capable of surviving in a wide variety of climates, on a wide variety of diets. We may decimate the wildlife population, and billions of us may die, but humans are super good at survival.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃English
        3•9 months ago

        Humanity will survive. It will be rough, trillions of people will die unnecessarily, billions more will suffer their entire lives in torment, but we’ll find a way. The only thing that strives to survive even more than an animal is an intelligence with an idea of a future. Even if that’s the belief in a perfect future that can never exist, even if in our ignorance we destroy the utopia we try to create, ideas and plans will never cease driving us to continue. Even if we replace ourselves as a species with something no longer human, we as an intelligence, or at least a kind of collective hive-mind of our creation, will continue to exist. The human will to stay alive will exert itself upon the depths of the universe, even if in doing so it becomes unrecognizable…

  • DominusOfMegadeusEnglish
    14•9 months ago

    We didn’t really need the experts. I could have told you this was a terrible development.

  • uphillbothways
    9•9 months ago

    When the soot falls from the first couple Antarctic wildfires sea level rise will happen so quickly even people who’ve been paying attention will be wondering what happened.