Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Personally, I’m excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I’m not pessimistic enough to think I’ll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh… a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
How exactly were the names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica” in that map decided? What does “East” and “West” mean at the South Pole?
I googled it: Image
Anything between lines of longitude 0° - 180° (0° is britain GMT, 180° is opposite side of earth) is EAST.
Anything between 180° to 0 (AKA 360°) is WEST.
Thus you have a western hemisphere, which i guess is just tthe americas and british Isles, and an eastern hemisphere, which i guess is most of afroeurasia and australia. This is just about the only way it could’ve worked, but as for where 0 and 180 went, it’s just arbitrary.
I would’ve defined the Levant as the boundary between east and west hemisphere, instead.
you’re thinking geographic west and east. what other definitions exist for west and east?
Unless you stand perfectly at the south pr perfectly at the north point of either pole, there will always be an east and a west.
Same as now. European influence.
Probably 100% cow pastures.
Personally I am not able to get excited about the prospect, with the knowledge that it happens on the back of millions of species going extinct all over the globe.
That’s not how that works. The Sahara savannah is tied to the rotation of the earth on its axis. That takes roughly 23,000 years. The period of time between savannah periods is about 13,000 years and the last one ended roughly 6,000-7,000 years ago. The next one will start in roughly 6,0000-7,000 more years.
This is oversimplified, by a lot. There are many factors impacting Africa’s aridity, including the current glaciation cycle, sea levels as a result thereof, the AMOC, etc.
… Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that… actually tries to model an AMOC shutdown?
Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith’s roughly weekly videos and uh… the SMOC ain’t doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two… well, the artctic polar vortex has … more or been destabilizing… to a rather extreme amount…
True, but I’m not trying to write a dissertation while enjoying my morning bowl o weed
The killing off of the majority of the human race is an unrequited plus in my book!
This is one of those beliefs that can lead to a slippery slope. Yes, from an empirical perspective it needs to happen. But are we okay with how it’s likely to happen? Because the path we’re on has the honest and humble proletariat taking the brunt of the blow while the elite lap up the freshly available assets.
Any attempt to alter that trajectory will probably lead to the same tribalistic and knee-jerk violence that breeds authoritarianism and racism and will not further the progressive cause of coexistence.
So no matter what happens, we’ll likely end up in the same place a few hundred years later.
Or maybe I’m wrong?
You’re not wrong
probably means the dragon tree, dracaena species, but thats in madagascar and socatra mostly
And the Canary islands too. I wonder if there’s precedent from them going extinct in mainland Africa and the naturally returning
seems like dracaena species is native to africa, multiple ones. the dragon blood tree is unique to socatra and parts of SA.
It will be, like, an oasis for us in the future!
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Most of us” is not “all of us”. Humanity will survive and the survivors will adapt.
Nothing but positivity here.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s if we survive WWIII, disease, and climate change.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Always the poor, disabled, marginalised, chronically ill, non first world, will be hit the hardest and die at the highest rates.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My professional advice is to not be any of those things when shit hits the fan.
morto@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
When it comes to climate change I’m not sure. We on the poor side of the world already live in a constant crisis and adaptation and drastically changing our way to live might not hit us as hard as for people in first world countries who are used to a high dependence on industry and globalization. In fact, we’re already slowly adapting without most people even noticing.
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The majority of other specie wont survive or adapt though. And all because of something we caused.