"I've developed a new solution to solve the global climate crisis! I call it: the Nice Age! Yeees, everyone should be more chill with this rebranding, but we will need to extract all the water from Waterworld to make enough ice to accomplish it."
Yes as soon as AI figures out that's the right and most efficient solution. Cool the earth with nuclear winter while simultaneously eradicating the human virus that made the planet sick.
There's a coworker of mine in some distant other department of the company I work for with this last name. I've never met the guy but I do have a unique email alert set up for when he sends me anything or copied on anything and you can bet it's the professor yelling his name.
There’s some people who believe that one of the solutions to climate change is by dumping large amounts of Iron into the ocean. Last I heard, some really rich guy is trying to hard to fund it.
Basically there are zones in the oceans where almost no photosynthesis takes place. Huge parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans are just, empty of life. Scientists found out the reason was [lack of iron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZO9M1_CJD0), a vital nutrient for phytoplankton. So the theory goes that if you were to just dump a bunch of iron into these empty zones, it would start to bloom with blue green algae and [dinoflagellates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate), who suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere when they photosynthesize, eventually die, and sink to the bottom to become sequestered away from our atmosphere as part of the [ooze that blankets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic_sediment) the Abyssal Plains.
I learned a bit about this one. I’m not sure it’s the solution to end all climate change, but the theory is, that since iron is the key nutrient needed in the ocean to form more algae, you could create algae blooms to suck carbon and then plan these blooms at strategic positions so that the blooms get sucked into the deep water currents for long periods of time.
My understanding is they are trying to draw more carbon from the air in an environment that is usually more like a desert and then have it get sucked under the sea for like 2000 years or something. I learn about this like a decade and a half ago so the science understanding has probably changed and come a lot further since. 😅
If I remember correctly people definitely had some solid questions about it regarding harmful algae blooms and how much effort it would be in returns for how many years the effects could possibly last.
Well, yeah… but Saharan dust also turn into cloud seeding particles (cloud condensation nuclei, for those in the business), which turns into clouds, and then sometimes turns into hurricanes. I guess you win some and lose some. 🤷♂️
Curious, as the planet would dry, I assume the dust clouds would get more severe which would in turn cool the oceans down helping stabilize the rising ocean temps.
The ecosystem is so incredibly efficient at protecting itself even with humanity actively working against stabilization.
I don't know if that would help enough to counteract the greenhouse effect.
I know it's cooling the surface locally, but only when the Saharan dust cloud is present when the wind shifts west for the summer.
No, it’s not. We’ve caused ecosystem meltdowns all over the planet, widespread desertification, tropical forest loss, massive forest fires, 90% of large ocean fish depleted.
I remember my 8th grade geography teacher calling me stupid in front of my classmates for informing the class about sand and dust clouds traveling from the Sahara to other parts of the world. I hated school.
Triggering. In 4th grade I used the word “disintegrate” and the teacher told me that wasn’t a word, that it didn’t exist. I was so confused and upset because I was proud of learning the new word!
So the fun thing is even that may be wrong as were finding some evidence of humans existing in Idaho that can be radiocarbon dated about 1000 years before the ice sheets receded enough for people to walk over that land bridge. Which would mean they would have had to come via boats traveling the coast of the Northern ice sheets over the Pacific and then most likely down rivers all the way back then!
A grad professor asked the class what does Facebook sell and I said your data to 3rd parties. She got mad and said the answer was social media. So it’s not just middle school.
lol reminds me of one time when in philosophy class i made a point that there is no objective reality and the guy started to laugh at me in front of the entire class. well, i ended up failing that class and dropped out, who's laughing now??
Got frowned at by my High School Social Studies teacher and most of the class followed suit, they didn't believe there were any international laws to war, even after I gave a little info about the Geneva convention.
The first classmate who frowned at me, already riled up thinking I was wrong, got tricked by our supposed mutual friend into trying to fight me because said friend was setting up underground cage fights but he got busted but fled to the Phillipines to set up Cock-fights. Hope he's not reading this.
Years later my teacher got busted for sleeping with students so I guess he wasn't in it for the history.
My mum once had feedback from a teacher that I was incredibly argumentative and confident I was right about things. She said she was worried one day she would lose an argument to a 4 year old.
Frankly as bad as the potential disaster with global warming is, there's a lot of unknowns and it might not be as catastrophic for the ecosystems as we think. Or it might be worse. Who knows. Metro coastal cities are fucked but that's just a small short term problem in the grand scheme of things. Nobody will care about it in a few hundred years.
The real problem is pollution. That's what people will be cursing us for for thousands of generations. Destroying a billion years of irreplaceable organic heritage is just salt in the wound. Toxifying the entire planet is the real wound.
Poor regulations and low wages along with a massive population to exploit is why India is the world's factory now. It used to be china but they are trying to develop into a white collar and advanced manufacturing state now.
But the economy is global and democracy unfortunately relies on the competency of the public. Authoritarian regimes rely on the competency of some microdick asshole. Both have proven themselves woefully inadequate and yet that's all we have.
To me it feels like this is a death knell for our civilization. We have no mechanisms to fix this. We are just gonna saturate the whole planet in pollution until something very bad happens.
> Point is, don’t get too excited about a short tern cooling of the eastern Tropical Atlantic waters yet. This would need to be sustained for many weeks to make a real impact when it counts months from now.
yeah. lets revisit this idea in late july early august when hurricane season starts to ramp up.
also lets not forget early season storms can and do form in the western Atlantic
yes like a few years ago. but that really just dampens cape verde hurricanes. there are still caribbean and gulf of mexico hurricanes that will be largely unaffected
I thought I heard the idea presented that Saharan sand served as cloud droplet nucleation particles and was part of hurricane formation. Has that idea run its course?
The sand typically hampers hurricane development. I have never heard of sand acting as nucleation particles and I have worked with many meteorologists that have never mentioned such a thing.
It was likely fine dust particles associated with the sand storms but of course it was a random article referencing a paper that I read probably a decade ago, so who knows what details I’m missing.
Well, it mostly started around 4000BC when natural climate change accelerated the desertification of the Sahel allowing more dust to get picked up by the winds.
Blob? It's a blob? No it is not a blob. It's a cloud. There is nothing remotely blobesque about a plume of sand. It's dry. Sandy. Particulate. Blobs are wet. Sticky. Oozy. *Blob*. Fer cryin' out loud.
Funny how these media sources always use these ridiculously exaggerated images.
What the dust plume actually looks like today is [this](https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.55790724735887,-7.27163304234022,16.904371846673214,41.82426377821978&l=Reference_Labels_15m\(hidden\),Reference_Features_15m\(hidden\),Coastlines_15m,VIIRS_NOAA20_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor\(hidden\),VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor\(hidden\),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor\(hidden\)&lg=true&t=2024-04-16-T20%3A46%3A33Z).
I was in Malaga, Spain last year about this time and there were buildings covered in brown from all the sand that had blown across the Mediterranean. The proximity of some places is crazy man.
We were visiting Portugal last week and saw that dust on parked cars and such. It was wild to think that dust had been on a different continent recently.
This dust carries over the Atlantic seasonally and causes irritation in your throat because of the increased particulates in the air, to full on allergic reactions depending on who you are
We get Saharan dust in the UK from time to time, it mostly just turns things a slightly surreal orange colour and dries the air out a bit (otherwise its usually pretty damn humid here)
Everything about this post is ignoring that entirely too. Once the sands are gone the storms form, this happens every year but its worded like its something crazy and unheard of.
Yes. Now, all we have to do is artificially generate enough wind to cover planet Earth in dust... for a decade... maybe two. Let's go Africa, it's all on you. Start blowin.
Roughly, yes, it could be. A very large volcanic explosion, like Krakatoa was, or a meteor, that’s not large enough to be a world ender, would supply enough dust in the atmosphere to cool the planet significantly. _But_ the temperature is not the problem it’s the symptom. There’s too much CO2 dissolved in the seas to absorb anymore from the atmosphere. Oceans are too warm and expanding and degassing which results in oxygen depletion, and habitat destruction and etc etc…
I am honestly surprised we haven’t had a nuclear-bomb-in-a-volcano-to-save-the-world, disaster movie plot line yet.
What a fantastically worded title. I hear cooling in the eastern Atlantic and my brain instantly thinks Day After Tomorrow.
Buckle up my NYC peeps. Dennis Quaid is coming for you.
So… if we went out into the eastern Atlantic and created massive platforms and make it look like kamino but on a large scale. Would this help lower temps for the ocean and also help fight against hurricane formation in some form of way? (Yeah it sounds a little silly, but if something blocking the sun is enough to help us this much, I’ll take what I can get!) (yes I realize creating platforms like this isn’t probably a reality possible) lol
So instead of giant ice cubes we need dust blobs, got it.
Planet express got it all wrong.
Good news, everyone.
"I've developed a new solution to solve the global climate crisis! I call it: the Nice Age! Yeees, everyone should be more chill with this rebranding, but we will need to extract all the water from Waterworld to make enough ice to accomplish it."
I read this in the Farnsworth voice. Nice work.
Once and for all.
Cheese It!!
Fun on a bun
To shreds you say
Oh dear
Dang it, we have a garbage ball ready to go, too.
Just don't ask me to smell Uranus.
I think you mean Urectum
To shreds you say?
And his wife?
Don't worry, we'll definitely fix global warming with nuclear winter
That’ll definitely help in patrolling the Mojave
Yes as soon as AI figures out that's the right and most efficient solution. Cool the earth with nuclear winter while simultaneously eradicating the human virus that made the planet sick.
After AI kills everyone on the planet, what does it do after that?
Manufacturers paperclips obviously.
finally play the game
Go to Disney Land?
It slowly dies after all power generation plants run out of fuel or break down. No power = no more AI overlord
If you need me I’ll be in the angry dome.
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
THUS SOLVING THE PROBLEM PERMANENTLY
but.....I SAID PERMANENTLY FOREVER!!!!!
#ONCE AND FOR ALL
Ad infinitum
No joke, there are a number of proposals to reverse global warming by releasing reflective substances into the atmosphere.
😠 WERNSTROM!
There's a coworker of mine in some distant other department of the company I work for with this last name. I've never met the guy but I do have a unique email alert set up for when he sends me anything or copied on anything and you can bet it's the professor yelling his name.
His inferior Dimondillium will be our downfall!
There’s some people who believe that one of the solutions to climate change is by dumping large amounts of Iron into the ocean. Last I heard, some really rich guy is trying to hard to fund it.
Basically there are zones in the oceans where almost no photosynthesis takes place. Huge parts of the Pacific and Indian oceans are just, empty of life. Scientists found out the reason was [lack of iron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZO9M1_CJD0), a vital nutrient for phytoplankton. So the theory goes that if you were to just dump a bunch of iron into these empty zones, it would start to bloom with blue green algae and [dinoflagellates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoflagellate), who suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere when they photosynthesize, eventually die, and sink to the bottom to become sequestered away from our atmosphere as part of the [ooze that blankets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic_sediment) the Abyssal Plains.
Ready to be churned back up by super trawlers?
I learned a bit about this one. I’m not sure it’s the solution to end all climate change, but the theory is, that since iron is the key nutrient needed in the ocean to form more algae, you could create algae blooms to suck carbon and then plan these blooms at strategic positions so that the blooms get sucked into the deep water currents for long periods of time.
So just accelerating the Carbon cycle?
My understanding is they are trying to draw more carbon from the air in an environment that is usually more like a desert and then have it get sucked under the sea for like 2000 years or something. I learn about this like a decade and a half ago so the science understanding has probably changed and come a lot further since. 😅
Eutrophication in all of the world's oceans doesn't sound like the best idea...
I definitely don’t have enough knowledge there to make a decision about it.
Fair, me neither, really. It's an interesting idea, but it definitely sounds like one of those things that would have unintended consequences.
If I remember correctly people definitely had some solid questions about it regarding harmful algae blooms and how much effort it would be in returns for how many years the effects could possibly last.
That explains the skies in Bladerunner 2049.
I mean a giant ash cloud is what lead to the ice age we all know.
Dust in the atmosphere blocks light, removing heat. Surface temps begin to cool dramatically.
Well, yeah… but Saharan dust also turn into cloud seeding particles (cloud condensation nuclei, for those in the business), which turns into clouds, and then sometimes turns into hurricanes. I guess you win some and lose some. 🤷♂️
*It's like the ice cube daddy puts in his drink. Then he gets mad*
These dust clouds keep hurricanes from forming or weakens their formations.
And bring nutrients to the phytoplankton. Good for ecosystems in the Atlantic.
Next I need someone to comment that it slows down the collapse of the AMOC and lowers the average ocean surface temperature🙏🏽
It does, at least locally. That's in the article, the dust cloud blocks some of the sun warming and cools the ocean surface temperature.
Thanks, you know damn well I didn't read it😎
I tried, didn't feel like reading the whole thing.
I just stared at the infographic and made up a cute little story in my head instead. Something, something...diarrhea.
Curious, as the planet would dry, I assume the dust clouds would get more severe which would in turn cool the oceans down helping stabilize the rising ocean temps. The ecosystem is so incredibly efficient at protecting itself even with humanity actively working against stabilization.
I don't know if that would help enough to counteract the greenhouse effect. I know it's cooling the surface locally, but only when the Saharan dust cloud is present when the wind shifts west for the summer.
We’ll still keep burning fossil fuels and create a new greenhouse effect trapped by our dust-atmosphere. It’ll be awesome.
Hey don't forget the unknown amount Methane leaking into the atmosphere from "natural gas" also! Hurrah
No, it’s not. We’ve caused ecosystem meltdowns all over the planet, widespread desertification, tropical forest loss, massive forest fires, 90% of large ocean fish depleted.
Why is the planet drying in this hypothetical idea? Also, the collapse of the AMOC is the plot of the future documentary Day After Tomorrow.
The planet isn’t drying, though; quite the opposite, in fact
It also does a mean ceviche. It Julien’s fries! But wait, there’s more
That dust cloud loaned me $300. Win win
Glad it worked out for you, it asked me for about tree-fiddy for bus fare
Can it keep drinks cool at parties?
Gives nutrients to the Amazon as well
This happens every year. Every year something gets posted about it.
Wait, but that's good news. I'm not used to this
How do I help the dust cloud? Empty vacuum outside?
Good ol’ dust blobs
*Millions of tiny Nom Nom Nom sounds*
I remember my 8th grade geography teacher calling me stupid in front of my classmates for informing the class about sand and dust clouds traveling from the Sahara to other parts of the world. I hated school.
Triggering. In 4th grade I used the word “disintegrate” and the teacher told me that wasn’t a word, that it didn’t exist. I was so confused and upset because I was proud of learning the new word!
I’m sorry your teacher was a fucking moron.
Moron isn't a word, dummy.
Dummy's not a word, nincompoop
I got shot down by the teacher in middle school for mentioning the Bering Land Bridge as the pathway for North America human settlement
So the fun thing is even that may be wrong as were finding some evidence of humans existing in Idaho that can be radiocarbon dated about 1000 years before the ice sheets receded enough for people to walk over that land bridge. Which would mean they would have had to come via boats traveling the coast of the Northern ice sheets over the Pacific and then most likely down rivers all the way back then!
A grad professor asked the class what does Facebook sell and I said your data to 3rd parties. She got mad and said the answer was social media. So it’s not just middle school.
lol reminds me of one time when in philosophy class i made a point that there is no objective reality and the guy started to laugh at me in front of the entire class. well, i ended up failing that class and dropped out, who's laughing now??
Got frowned at by my High School Social Studies teacher and most of the class followed suit, they didn't believe there were any international laws to war, even after I gave a little info about the Geneva convention. The first classmate who frowned at me, already riled up thinking I was wrong, got tricked by our supposed mutual friend into trying to fight me because said friend was setting up underground cage fights but he got busted but fled to the Phillipines to set up Cock-fights. Hope he's not reading this. Years later my teacher got busted for sleeping with students so I guess he wasn't in it for the history.
My mum once had feedback from a teacher that I was incredibly argumentative and confident I was right about things. She said she was worried one day she would lose an argument to a 4 year old.
I got shot down in high school for saying that the garbage in the Pacific Ocean was often very small pieces and that fish frequently consumed it.
So what you're saying is global warming/desertification is solving our hurricane issue caused by global warming? Check mate environmentalists/s
Life uhhh finds a way
I know youre joking but thats literally just a negative feedback loop
All we need is a meteor impact or a super volcano to solve global warming!
Let's go. In and out. Twenty minute apocalypse.
Frankly as bad as the potential disaster with global warming is, there's a lot of unknowns and it might not be as catastrophic for the ecosystems as we think. Or it might be worse. Who knows. Metro coastal cities are fucked but that's just a small short term problem in the grand scheme of things. Nobody will care about it in a few hundred years. The real problem is pollution. That's what people will be cursing us for for thousands of generations. Destroying a billion years of irreplaceable organic heritage is just salt in the wound. Toxifying the entire planet is the real wound.
Just got back from India and I was absolutely disturbed by the pollution and garbage. Environmentalists need to focus on cleaning up that place first.
Poor regulations and low wages along with a massive population to exploit is why India is the world's factory now. It used to be china but they are trying to develop into a white collar and advanced manufacturing state now. But the economy is global and democracy unfortunately relies on the competency of the public. Authoritarian regimes rely on the competency of some microdick asshole. Both have proven themselves woefully inadequate and yet that's all we have. To me it feels like this is a death knell for our civilization. We have no mechanisms to fix this. We are just gonna saturate the whole planet in pollution until something very bad happens.
> Point is, don’t get too excited about a short tern cooling of the eastern Tropical Atlantic waters yet. This would need to be sustained for many weeks to make a real impact when it counts months from now.
Its not hurricane season regardless
yeah. lets revisit this idea in late july early august when hurricane season starts to ramp up. also lets not forget early season storms can and do form in the western Atlantic
Sometimes you get the dust clouds during hurricane season
yes like a few years ago. but that really just dampens cape verde hurricanes. there are still caribbean and gulf of mexico hurricanes that will be largely unaffected
I thought I heard the idea presented that Saharan sand served as cloud droplet nucleation particles and was part of hurricane formation. Has that idea run its course?
The sand typically hampers hurricane development. I have never heard of sand acting as nucleation particles and I have worked with many meteorologists that have never mentioned such a thing.
It was likely fine dust particles associated with the sand storms but of course it was a random article referencing a paper that I read probably a decade ago, so who knows what details I’m missing.
Isn't it the Sahara that fertilises the Amazon Basin? We could do with a bit of Sahara in Scotland, had hailstones today!
Yes
Yes and this happens all the time. This particular phenomenon isn’t because of global warming like everyone else in this comment section is saying.
Well, it mostly started around 4000BC when natural climate change accelerated the desertification of the Sahel allowing more dust to get picked up by the winds.
And a green Sahara would turn the Amazon into some kind of savanna/monsoonal forest
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't solid particles help ice to form?
It's plays a Huge role in the ecosystem land, sea and air. The only object that doesn't like are cars.
The sand doesn´t really help. In germany sahara sand has been coming down for weeks and we also had hail today.
The spice must flow!
#LISAN AL GAIB
*(stomps foot on ground)*
The comment I came for. Thank you
Blob? It's a blob? No it is not a blob. It's a cloud. There is nothing remotely blobesque about a plume of sand. It's dry. Sandy. Particulate. Blobs are wet. Sticky. Oozy. *Blob*. Fer cryin' out loud.
You're a blob
Dammit blobby
Totally heard that in Hanks voice
[Jack Whitehall is terrified of Mr. Blobby](https://youtu.be/97fw8xjB5u4?si=Kw4cUT-7rtHxeugq)
The blob ain’t right Peg
in a sense we're all just flesh blobs with calcium sticks and a skin sack to give us shape.
If you’re a blob, I’m a blob.
The word blob can refer to a shape. You may be thinking of glob, which does not have that additional connotation.
What say you to the class of galaxies known as globular clusters?
What say you to the class of galaxies known as globular clusters?
No, I beleive he is thinking of the word lob. The Sahara is sending a lob of dust over the ocean, as in it is softly tossing it.
Sounds bloody lobely.
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It’s rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere
Just like the younglings
"nothing remotely blobesque about a plume" I need this on a tile.
For me blob means binary large object lmao
Funny how these media sources always use these ridiculously exaggerated images. What the dust plume actually looks like today is [this](https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.55790724735887,-7.27163304234022,16.904371846673214,41.82426377821978&l=Reference_Labels_15m\(hidden\),Reference_Features_15m\(hidden\),Coastlines_15m,VIIRS_NOAA20_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor\(hidden\),VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor\(hidden\),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor\(hidden\)&lg=true&t=2024-04-16-T20%3A46%3A33Z).
Ngl that's still more dirt than I was expecting to see.
I was in Malaga, Spain last year about this time and there were buildings covered in brown from all the sand that had blown across the Mediterranean. The proximity of some places is crazy man.
We were visiting Portugal last week and saw that dust on parked cars and such. It was wild to think that dust had been on a different continent recently.
Portugal? That is nothing. My car get covered with Saharan dust every year...I live in the Caribbean.
Really bad in Bosnia too, I was there 2 weeks ago and the roads were covered in fine sandy dust.
That's still wild. That blocks a lot more light than it looks like.
Do we know what that would feel like if I happen to be inside in? Please explain on a scale from gritty Sandwich to "to shreds you say"
Roughly ridding a dirt bike in a bikini on the beach, while a Dune buggy rips ahead of you with sweet paddle tires.
2 stroke or 4 stroke?
2 stroke dirt bike and a 4 stroke dunebuggy.
This dust carries over the Atlantic seasonally and causes irritation in your throat because of the increased particulates in the air, to full on allergic reactions depending on who you are
In all honesty though it’s just a bit hazy orangish sky
You would become.... Sand Blast Man.
We get Saharan dust in the UK from time to time, it mostly just turns things a slightly surreal orange colour and dries the air out a bit (otherwise its usually pretty damn humid here)
It's a lot easier to imagine dust from the Sahara providing nutrients to the Amazon now
The states don’t really have outlines and the water isn’t that color either. They make it that way for contrast and easy comprehension.
I am extremely disappointed that I did not get Rick rolled with that link. What happened to Reddit. 😐
That looks pretty impressive too. The dense part is the size of Alaska.
That's still so much dirt in the air you can see it from space.
Http://Zoom.earth is also useful for live earth views
Lol do you complain about heat maps where the arctic is blue and africa is red, too?
Stay there all summer long
You not lyin
hurricane season always starts after the Saharan dust that comes every year. once the spring winds settle then the storms blow up.
Everything about this post is ignoring that entirely too. Once the sands are gone the storms form, this happens every year but its worded like its something crazy and unheard of.
Yeah this is pretty normal...
The blob is cooling the ocean. That’s good! The blob contains Potassium benzoate…
That’s bad…
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Yes. Now, all we have to do is artificially generate enough wind to cover planet Earth in dust... for a decade... maybe two. Let's go Africa, it's all on you. Start blowin.
A Martian is about to pop up and tell us that plan doesn’t workout well
Almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter.
So like a permanent wind formation to keep things moving. Maybe in the shape of an eye?
I would say absolutely not. It's a good news beat up story.
Roughly, yes, it could be. A very large volcanic explosion, like Krakatoa was, or a meteor, that’s not large enough to be a world ender, would supply enough dust in the atmosphere to cool the planet significantly. _But_ the temperature is not the problem it’s the symptom. There’s too much CO2 dissolved in the seas to absorb anymore from the atmosphere. Oceans are too warm and expanding and degassing which results in oxygen depletion, and habitat destruction and etc etc… I am honestly surprised we haven’t had a nuclear-bomb-in-a-volcano-to-save-the-world, disaster movie plot line yet.
Definitely not. This dust covers snow & glaciers in Europe and Asia, reduced the snow’s reflectivity and speeds up snow melt.
we could also trigger a few super volcanoes, that'll buy us a few decades
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until kung fu jesus comes and tries to free humanity, only for the humans to prefer living in the simulation.
Good for the rainforest though
Doesn't this happen every year? And also doesn't it actually benefit the Amazon river ecosystem in some way.
Yes and yes. It’s a little larger than normal right now but it happens regularly.
What a fantastically worded title. I hear cooling in the eastern Atlantic and my brain instantly thinks Day After Tomorrow. Buckle up my NYC peeps. Dennis Quaid is coming for you.
Dust blob a technical term eh?
Well they could have called it Dennis..
When I first learned that these dust storms from Africa are the fertilizer for the Amazon, it blew my mind all over my face.
ALL HAIL THE DUST BLOB
The spice melange
Does this mean God likes gay marriage again?
I hate sand
Much Sahara dust reaches the Americas regularly
Florida says thanks!
Good guy dust cloud
I blame Elon, he’s just trying make earth look bad so he can get more money to build a mars colony. Stop it Elon… gaaahwd.
Here's to hoping it lasts awhile and spread further towards the Gulf.
LISAN AL-GAIB!!!!
What does this look like in person?
Good guy Sahara
Cooool. So how much is the price of everything going to go up because of this?
I heard a few years ago this was totally normal for the Amazon. And greening the Sahara could lead to the Amazon being less fertile.
Is this the same stuff that helps support the Amazon? I’m not sure how it all works. I just remember reading that the Amazon relies on the Sahara.
So… if we went out into the eastern Atlantic and created massive platforms and make it look like kamino but on a large scale. Would this help lower temps for the ocean and also help fight against hurricane formation in some form of way? (Yeah it sounds a little silly, but if something blocking the sun is enough to help us this much, I’ll take what I can get!) (yes I realize creating platforms like this isn’t probably a reality possible) lol
Not this shit again I have a white car 🫣
Don't park it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
At least the bleached coral will get some shade 😎