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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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[–] Saneless 61 points 1 year ago (24 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 (3 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.

[–] Saneless 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, there's a group of people who would rather make members who vote a certain way sad than save their own lives. I don't get it

[–] InternetUser2012 2 points 1 year ago

From FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME to let me lick those boots while you tell me what I should be outraged about.

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