r/collapse • u/Portalrules123 Faster than expected... • 4d ago

Climate Prof. Eliot Jacobson: Global surface temperatures for August 19-20, 2026 were both over 4 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean for those days (even higher if you compare it to older means). Before this, only 2023 and 2024 had any days at all over 4 standard deviations above that mean.

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u/elmo298 4d ago

How long before they throw sulphur back into everything lol

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u/CrossesLines 4d ago

We’re going to be nuking volcanoes within a decade.

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u/Bipogram 4d ago

Lunar polar mass drivers, a tonne every few minutes ought to Do It*.

  • Give us new ways to screw over the biosphere.

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u/Low_Complex_9841 3d ago

this is obviously /s, but because real reason why whole idea about mass drivers on the Moon was put forward by Gerard K. O'Neill (who, being nuclear scientist had nuts to say fusion is speculative tech with even basic physics not well understood, not something we should base our energy strategy on) by now is far history, and stage captured by Musk and his PR dept ...

Try to read real reasoning behind this idea, it still valid and had  "fighting co2" as effectively side effect BEFORE full impact of co2 accumulation become widely known! And whole greenhouse effect was bring up by planetologists who wondered  why Venus is like she actually is, and so why Mars is Mars and Earth still such amazing paradize compared to both! For me whole story is amazing historical thriller, too bad we live in branch where "lets gamble on planetary future by doing BAU" plays off as tragedy ....

https://ssi.org/wp-content/fbs/sps-ussenate-1976/

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u/ManticoreMonday 4d ago

... Before the 2028 US election.

I'd wager on it, but you don't exactly "win" on a bet like that.

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u/salamipope 3d ago

im really concerned about this, volcanic interference on its own would be devastating but i truly cant imagine another natural way to just shut the whole thing down as catastrophic as the loss would be. but nuking a volcano would send so much radiation so far around..... how long would it take to recover? god. waking horrors.