Almost 40% of World's Glaciers Already Doomed Due To Climate Crisis (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/153212/almost-40-of-worlds-glaciers-already-doomed-due-to-climate-crisis
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/29/almost-40-of-worlds-glaciers-already-doomed-due-to-climate-crisis-study
> The loss will soar to 75% if global heating reaches the 2.7C rise for which the world is currently on track. The massive loss of glaciers would push up sea levels, endangering millions of people and driving mass migration, profoundly affecting the billions reliant on glaciers to regulate the water used to grow food, the researchers said.
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> However, slashing carbon emissions and limiting heating to the internationally agreed 1.5C target would save half of glacier ice. That goal is looking increasingly out of reach as emissions continue to rise, but the scientists said that every tenth-of-a-degree rise that was avoided would save 2.7tn tonnes of ice.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/29/almost-40-of-worlds-glaciers-already-doomed-due-to-climate-crisis-study
Humans are doomed (Score:1)
Most of the population still believes in a skydaddy. We've also built a culture where being smart is shunned.
You know what would GREATLY benefit this site ? (Score:1)
First post in this thread is that little shitfuck troll with rsilvergun-derangement syndrome. Posting anonymously of course, because that's what these spineless cowardly losers always do.
Do you know what /. would greatly benefit from ? If the moderation system was changed so that every anonymous post would start at a moderation level of -1 instead of 0.
This way we wouldn't have to continually waste our modpoints downmodding these trolls (which is clearly the goal here: making us waste or modpoints, that is)
Mass Migration (Score:2)
The primates are smart, but gullible and predictable. So, each decacde we should expect to see ever-larger forced movements of people from lowland coastal areas. The early signs would be: flooding, massive erosion, catastrophic pollution events, rising insurance premiums, real estate price drops and ultimately lower valuations then a reduced tax base. I suspect there's a map tracking these events and amounts already. Perhaps there'll be a hand-scrawled sign offshore somewhere saying "we will rebuild!"
Re: (Score:1)
I didn't listen. Now my igloo is collapsing and sliding into the Antarctic ocean! If only I had stopped eating meat...