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They aren't going to need it shortly
Very misleading title
To be clear, this is still really bad, but it's typical media reporting where scientists say sometime in the next 70 years and the media changes it to "next year"
I don't disagree about the headline, but ~70 years for something that last happened in the ice age is imminent on a geologic scale. I mean, shit: that's within my kid's lifetime.
Oh yeah no for sure, we're pretty much past the point of no return at this point for shitty things happening in my of our lifetimes, even if humanity decides to suddenly start doing something about it
On the other hand we weren't supposed to hit +1.5° average before 2050, and here we are in 2023, unless a global scale event happens to cool the earth, we'll hit this mark.
This year arctica never had this low ice cover. Same for antartica. Mountains are falling in Switzerland because of the lack of ice cover. It's very bad and there might be cascading effects.
Gulf stream stopping could very well be happening in 2 years. It is a possibility. But even if it happens in 2050 it's not really good you know.
If the gulf stream shuts down you'll get your glaciers back and then some.
Oh great, and the climate will certainly not change one bit! /s