• mechoman444@lemmy.world
    191·
    11 months ago

    HEY!!! Get your science and facts out of here!

    ~ ~Places fingers in ears and closes eyes~ ~ laalalalalalalal

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    17·
    11 months ago

    reference

    I was trying to look up why less polar ice causes shifts in the jet stream and this article cites an active debate around our understanding on this.

    The tweet does not really address that point, and makes the cause and effect sound definitive.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      11 months ago

      What, are you saying a website called X where I can easily share both amateur porn, shitpost, and fight with other keyboard warriors isn’t a solid source for factual information? smh what are you talking about

      Next you’re going to tell me that drinking diesel fuel is bad for my longevity or something.

    • Pendulum@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Which is the flaw of social media science these past few years. Theories evolve as new data is presented and new hypotheses are formed. The average twitter denizen won’t have that, no sir, and will with glee smack you with an outdated textbook with equal zeal as a Bible basher.

      “FACTS DONT FUGGING CHANGE YOU BIGOT” == “THE WORLD IS ONLY 6,000 YEARS OLD SAYS SO IN THE BIBLE”

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    162·
    11 months ago

    Even as the US hits record setting lows, the temperature of the planet as a whole remains above average. If it’s -20°F across the entire US, how hot must the rest of the planet be?

    • kinther@lemmy.world
      101·
      11 months ago

      Ice ages typically happen due to very low insolation or the ability of solar energy to reach the surface of our planet. Insolation is a term often used when describing how much energy a solar panel can create.

      Right now we have a big problem with too many greenhouse gases, which exacerbate the insolation we already have. It is heating our oceans rapidly, thus causing the break up of ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica. At some point the oceans won’t be able to absorb the heat we are receiving and air temperatures will begin to rise as well. Equilibrium. Hence Venus by Tuesday.

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      So maybeish, so there is the possibility that warming of the oceans will cause the large ocean currents to slow/stop. This will reduce the amount of mixing of ocean water. Causing greater salinity and temperature gradients in the oceans relative to latitude. Making the Arctic ocean colder and the tropical ocean warmer. This colder Arctic ocean would lead to lower Arctic temperatures and an increase in ice, increasing the albedo of earth. The higher albedo would reflect more sunlight cooling the planet into an ice age.

      Having said all that it is important to note, first if this happens it will be on geologic time scales. So the planet will still get a lot hotter first. Second it is just a hypothesis, we don’t know what is going to happen on a longer scale because this period of warming is unprecedented in earth’s history. Yes it has been hotter and had higher CO2 levels, but not anywhere the speed of chance we have had in the last 100years. So using past trends to predict the current change will be vague at best.

      TLDR: it is still going to get a lot hotter before any chance of getting colder.

    • psud@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      We are in an ice age, you can tell because there is an ice cap at both poles.

      We are in an interglacial period, which if we fixed carbon pollution today would still continue for tens of thousands of years beyond it’s expected end

      There used to be a theory that this sort of weather reinforces the northern ice and glaciers and could start glaciation, but that’s not supported by modern models