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Could one pierce a bubble and syphon/concentrate the gas into a tank with a pump? Might be too late, considering how many there are and how remote they are. edit: nm, I saw that conference where they've shown Methane releasing from the submerged Siberian plane. We're fucked.
Though I'm certainly not an expert, and it's possible it'd be more akin to natural gas drilling, which we have some experience in.
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If we can't figure out an engineering solution to this problem then it's game over. It always amazes me how much people and governments focus on prevention when it comes to climate change, knowing full well it's far too late to change anything by reducing carbon emissions. If we can't sequester these 'surplus' gases from the atmosphere then I guess you could say we don't have a chance in hell, pun intended, of surviv…
Why focus on "fixing" climate ? Why not just assume it's going to become unstable in close future and start building with that assumption ? Large scale isolated citiy domes. Nutrient synthesis that doesn't rely on climate/agriculture. Environment independent energy generation like micro nuclear reactors. Large scale air filtration and temperature control. As the world becomes more interconnected and developed catastr…
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I suspect that the interests driving denial are planning to ride the crash. There are probably developments in favorable locations. Land. Security. Infrastructure. Resources.
Siberia stands to become more arable if the permafrost thaws. It certainly becomes more drillable. Wonder who might be involved there... https://www.2b1stconsulting.com/exxonmobil-and-rosneft-set-j...
So, assuming we're screwed, where's the best place to move preemptively? I know Boston isn't that place. - I assume the coasts are a nonstarter. - Moving inland could be nice, but the ground would need to be pretty arable to restart civilization there. I'm guessing somewhere in Africa is a safe bet, given the lack of resource exploitation there, but then again, there's not much infrastructure at the moment.
...what?
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The consensus is that unchecked GW would not be a human extinction event.
Correct, I don't believe that human extinction is in the cards from unchecked GW. Though it could well still be the greatest and most prolonged disaster in recorded history. There is an enormous gulf between minimum thresholds for, respectively: - "Not a big deal" - A catastrophe, comparable to World War II - The greatest catastrophe in recorded history - The extinction of industrialized civilization - The extinction…
Yeah, the thing is, that your list roughly translates to:
- Not a big deal
- Many of us are dead
- Most of us are dead
- Almost of us are dead and everything is fucked
- Remaining list items aren't even worth considering
So maybe let's rewrite the list to show how your and mine lives will look like:
- Everything is much more expensive, no more extravagant meals
- European refugee crisis, except you're the refugee
- Like the above, except everyone wants to shoot you
- The Walking Dead, just without the zombies
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And then good luck rebuilding civilization now that every easily accessible resource has been mined/harvested out.
Let's hope the beings that will rebuild civilization will learn from our mistakes.
If we can't fix, if we can't prevent, and if we cannot prepare either, then maybe we could at least preserve? • Digitize all human knowledge and as much art/literature as you can gather (books, music, movies, shows, games, even porn and random YouTube videos and discussions on online forums :) Most of that work has already been done. • Store it on the most resilient (and simple/repairable) storage media you can, • Bu…
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I can't believe there are people willfully obtuse enough to still be putting out this strawman. No one credible is or has ever claimed "the end of life" or even "the end of multicellular life". Humanity could get wiped out entirely and "life" would be fine for a few billion years until it really would get wiped out completely without intelligence. But even a few tens of millions let alone hundreds let alone billions…
Another fun angle to consider. Ocean acidification leading to a die-off of phytoplankton (the oxygen tank of the Earth, basically). This could cause a global asphyxiation event.