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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?
“Most of us” is not “all of us”. Humanity will survive and the survivors will adapt.
Nothing but positivity here.
Always the poor, disabled, marginalised, chronically ill, non first world, will be hit the hardest and die at the highest rates.
My professional advice is to not be any of those things when shit hits the fan.
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.
That’s if we survive WWIII, disease, and climate change.
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
It will be, like, an oasis for us in the future!
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