[HN Gopher] Study finds the gulf stream is warming and shifting ...
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Study finds the gulf stream is warming and shifting closer to shore
Author : geox
Score : 45 points
Date : 2023-10-09 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.whoi.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.whoi.edu)
| tomohelix wrote:
| Honestly, there is nothing I can do about this. Everyone who
| cares already know and most try to do what they can. But it is
| obvious from the last decades or so that it isn't enough.
|
| The only way to do anything is to sacrifice something. And since
| this is such a big issue, the sacrifice also needs to be
| proportionally big. Personally? I cannot make that sacrifice. I
| had lived the "low carbon emission" lifestyle before and I do not
| want to go back to that. I have dedicated the better part of my
| life so that I do not have to be in that situation again. There
| are people with more impact to the environment than I am and if
| they don't lift a finger, why should I? Even if I do, what impact
| would I have compared to the guy going on a private jet twice a
| day?
|
| I am tired and jaded. It will be bad and I know it. I am
| preparing and maybe you should too. But beyond getting ready for
| the worst, I doubt there is much else to do.
| AA-BA-94-2A-56 wrote:
| > The only way to do anything is to sacrifice something.
|
| Won't be enough, because the biggest consumers of carbon are
| billionaires and their corporations.
| pnpnp wrote:
| Do we know what the long term implications of this are?
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| First comment and I seem to have beaten the usual cohort of
| posters questioning the science and telling me why this is
| entirely due to reasons that aren't at all climate change
| related!
| The28thDuck wrote:
| I reject your reality and substitute my own!
| PraetorianGourd wrote:
| While I understand your point, this comment is pretty close to
| trite comments like "downvote me if you want, but..." or "does
| anyone else..." or even the sinful "first!". It sets a negative
| tone for everyone else who clicks on the comments, and can
| immediately put people on the defensive (such as someone who
| wasn't planning on commenting, but now will to refute your
| point etc.)
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| I don't disagree and it was posted somewhat tongue in cheek.
| That said, I did hope it might raise some commentary or
| insight into why Hacker News seems to have such a vocal
| cohort of posters on climate change related articles. For a
| community that prides itself of being logical and scientific,
| I've found it quite surprising how many here go against the
| scientific consensus on climate change.
| [deleted]
| stouset wrote:
| The gulf stream isn't moving, this is just plate tectonics
| pushing the continents around so it _looks_ like it's moving
| even though it's actually staying in place.
|
| /s
| dang wrote:
| I don't mean to pile on, but please don't do this. It just adds
| noise and degrades discussion.
|
| It's particularly bad when there aren't any comments yet,
| because threads are really sensitive to initial conditions.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| omgJustTest wrote:
| paywall for nature science :(, link to the paywall and mentioned
| study. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01835-w
| aaron695 wrote:
| [dead]
| chris_va wrote:
| A fun side note, the Western Boundary Time Series project is a
| neat bit of physics: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbts/
|
| One can measure the rate of flow of seawater (about ~30Sv, or 30
| million cubic meters per second!) by the potential induced on
| salt ions from moving through the earth's magnetic field on a old
| abandoned telegraph cable between Florida and the Bahamas.
|
| https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
| (TLDR, it's dropping about 1% per decade currently)
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