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It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (www.iflscience.com)
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The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. "We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years." The full study is Here

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[–] dynamo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seeing this, i kinda hope that it happens as fast as possible. That way the rich will see exactly what they've done, and maybe we'll manage to get some revenge

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

Hundreds of millions will die and hundreds of millions more will suffer, and the rich will care as much as they do right now

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, force the rich to see all the poor people dying from their ivory towers. I'm sure they'll suddenly start worrying about other people's suffering.

/s

[–] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Ivory towers are still capable of being seiged

Many governments have fallen over the years because they forgot that they only have a thin veil of control over their people

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

no I think poor people will just freeze to death. The rich are always fine in times of want

[–] Stormyfemme@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah they’ll be fine no matter what happens. Accelerationism hurts the most vulnerable more than anyone else.

[–] dynamo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I mean we'll hurt them, not the climate