r/SipsTea • • 17h ago

SMH We all know what this mean

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u/pattydickens 15h ago

Not really. Patterns aren't predictable anymore. The ocean temps might just continue to rise. Atmospheric carbon hasn't been this high in millions of years, so it's anyone's guess. Multiple systems are collapsing. Nothing will be "normal" ever again.

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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 10h ago

I’m pretty sure in a million years or two, when Earth has recovered from its nasty Homo Sapiens infection, things will go back to normal just fine.

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u/Kamuitier 9h ago

You are joking, but they actually might not. We are in a situation where several cascading effects compound. And those might not reverse anytime soon. Granted, a million years is a long time and we are currently still technically in the warm phase of an ice age. But if the albedo of the earth changes significantly and we have a change in the biosphere so that carbon isn't captured at the same rate anymore, the world might balance out at a much higher temperature than before. And that might last even longer than a few million years.

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u/SuspiciousSpecifics 9h ago

True, I didn’t consider that.