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Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' (www.livescience.com)

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Researchers have predicted the collapse of the AMOC could happen any time between 2025 and 2095 — far sooner than previous predictions, although not all scientists are convinced.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (44 children)

I'm so tired of living in a world of impending doom. This is hell.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (22 children)

And they know how to fucking fix it but don't want to

It'd be like if in the movie Armageddon the government just said "Eh let's see if it really will be that bad if it hits us"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only "they" is actually "us". We voted those clowns into office. We knew (or should have known, the information was available) better at least since the 1970s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dude our election system is so fucked, I put that mostly on greedy corporations. But yeah, there's no shortage of blame to go around.

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