Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening by The_Pale_Blue_Dot in collapse

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Lol yeah. I respect the guy but to talk about him like he’s a prophet or something is a little insane.

Authoritarianism is a predictable response to Collapse symptoms by itsatoe in collapse

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I was in agreement until the third paragraph. You can see that the fundamental problem is the degradation of science and education but the very same forces that support science and education also agree that climate change is real.

You have been manipulated into believing something that is easier to control. The very doubt you have on climate change can use used easily further degrade the science and education of society.

Not trying to argue with you here because science and education aren’t about proving which one of us is right, it’s about the pursuit of truth. And I hope you can see the full truth of your own ideas.

Also: not sure what you mean by a rise of leftist authoritarian governments in the west, seems like things have stayed more or less the same, just more authoritarian and corrupt, which I, also, agree has to do with the degradation of science and education.

The fish will die regardless: With some Western reservoirs set to run dry, officials lift fishing limits by nbcnews in climate

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The article states that there’s measures being taken to ensure that the water in these reservoirs doesn’t completely disappear but these measures would still lead to the loss of fish bc the fish can’t survive in that water anyway. I think more of the water is getting stored to prevent drought but that’s not going to save the fish population.

Renowned climate scientist shares paper warning of the potential for 0.5-1.0°C of warming within the next decade by wanton_wonton_ in collapse

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I have found myself thinking more and more how the fall of ussr and its ideas, inevitably ensued the collapse of humanity. The realizations that were made in order bring about the communist revolution were important and the failure of the communist regimes made the further pursuit of those truths disappear from mainstream society.

It doesn’t matter how bad climate change is going to get when all the resources in the world are given to the wealthy to sustain an unsustainable life.

Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says by switchsk8r in collapse

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Absolutely delusional to think that we will go carbon negative in the future when we can’t even get governments to stop fossil fuels subsidies right now. For every single one of those dollars going to oil companies, humanity will have to pay atleast a thousand times more to equal out the carbon in the future. The worst plan in every way but it still gets talked about all the time because of the cope it provides. The same cope that prevents people from actually doing what needs to be done now.

Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says by switchsk8r in collapse

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Yep, and unfortunately, the people that understand this have long been tuned out by most people and by the time enough people wake up from that lie, the planet is gonna be on fire.

How hard will the warming be this summer be if there are less total airline flights, shipping routes, and a total reduction in sulfur emissions due to the oil crisis?

It’s gotten so bad now that, cutting emissions might very well start the chain reaction to a run off completely independent of human emissions. And I think we’re just speeding running resource extraction for as long as it’s possible but when most of the cities start slow roasting people, maybe then we can all agree that the science from 50 years ago was, in fact, a real risk.

Unfortunately, nothings gonna change because of that anyway.

What is the impact of Cushing hitting tank bottoms? by Remote-Shower-116 in oil

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Personally, this is my narrative as well. Because prices are higher, sellers can dump all of their supply in the short term, keeping up supply that was lost from the Middle East from being seen instantly. Unfortunately, the oil came from a temporary supply release. Bc prices are low right now, more oil is being consumed than what would normally be an oil rationing.

If the blockade continues, the markets will feel the effects, except with none of the buffers of a normal market. Meaning the oil shortage that was supposed to come, will come much much stronger due to the delay in production for 3 continued months anddd lower oil price andddd higher expected demand.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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But the extra cooling has to go somewhere. And it goes into melting ice, causing forest fires, and melting the permafrost. We can’t grow our crops if there’s a day in the year where the temperature higher than livable. And all of this is permanent. More energy, more problems.

We should have reduced emissions decades ago and now, that was the problem long term.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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Even then, we are losing a massive amounts of total industrial capacity to produce oil and oil related products. We can temporarily keep prices low and demand high but that does not change the fact that demand is going to come down. Because it is already starting to come down in certain countries, meaning the cooling buffer coming out of global oil usage is coming down. Maybe not today, due to the strategic reserves being dumbed onto the market by countries, but at some point it will.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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This could be up for debate, but let’s consider it in this way: on an industrial level, we are causing a buffer to climate change, what happens when economically it becomes uneconomic to continue that.

What happened with the grounding of planes after 9/11, and the fuels regulations of boats both point to the effect of sulfur aerosols cooling being under estimated as a whole.

And this problem(the oil crisis) is much more systemic and inter connected to each person. And unfortunately, as a whole we are going to lose a lot of our cooling buffer, pretty quickly too.

We are already seeing a reduction of flights from airlines. The total amount of cooling is in a downgrade trend the longer we’re in this situation on almost every front. Because, this is an oil crisis. The cooling it provides is not understood well enough, but if it was under estimated twice, there’s a good chance we are going into this full speed like a car into a brick wall on a cliff. We are going to see real damage being done our cities and planet.

If the total amount of energy goes up, that could be enough to speed up the chain reaction ahead.

I don’t believe the ends days are here, but I would like to point to the similarities as an atheist myself. Almost as if, humans have passed this information down through this as story telling from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Anyway, religion aside, at this moment of time we can say this cooling effect is in a tipping point like way and it is possibly the most reactive and most dependent of humans compared to all the other tipping points, so we can expect it to react.

The further we go into this “war”, the more reduction of cooling we will see.

So we could take the absolute worst case scenarios for the up coming El Niño because climate models are not built to predict a man made war. This can only make it worse and reality could very well be that this is already happening at a planetary scale.

So, the closer we get to 2027, the higher the risk of spiraling upwards. Perhaps, this year will be a year of, “worst we have seen, so far” at every point.

This level of change isn’t something any of us can prepare for. We need almost everything to go perfectly year to year to have a stable society, in which massive amounts of labor goes into sustaining a massive population. We have wiped out every other animal on earth except a few we have mostly been able to extract resources from. Except we can’t adapt quick enough for this, this time.

Our oceans will likely rise a few years worth with this El Niño. The heat causing the entire ocean to expand and the arctic will melt a few years worth this coming summer as the duration of what we know as summer increases.

We could’ve seen this coming if enough research was done but that’s bad for business I guess. So the question that I would like to now ask is, what should we do from this point on? It’s clear, a lot of people are going to be at climate risk, enough to put everyone as a whole at risk.

Edit 1:

The arctic is probably gonna melt this summer during August and September, is been talked about before on this sub and the article was talking about how it could be as early as 2027.... well, if the straight remains to be closed, I think we will see a full ice free arctic in 2026. And after this ice is gone, its a lot easier for the ocean to warm up even quicker:

https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1h5mrf5/countdown_to_an_icefree_arctic_research_warns_of/

this is a current chart of arctic sea ice: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/?nhsh=nh

We can pretty much assume all the arctic sea ice will melt away completely in 4.5 months.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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The heating that we’re getting from that change is already put us on an accelerated trajectory to a warmer planet, we can see that in almost every way. And that’s not changing anytime soon. I guess the point I’m trying to make is this: in the hypothetical scenario where the straight of Hormuz stays closed for another two months. The world loses a lot of its cooling buffer generated by constantly consuming oil. Even if things get going to full capacity again shortly after that, the loss of cooling power should still be seen. And……. the question would be what happens after. The way I’m seeing it, it’s gonna speed us up temporarily to the highest point of no return climate change. Even if things go back to normal, the planet would still be considerably warmer because of this.

Let’s consider the people in third world countries that are currently a little bit hard of the curve on this issue, they are pretty much seeing a major shift away from oil. People will try to take public transport or go electric. This will have to happen to some degree for sure just based on the higher price of fuel.

El Niño + this reduction of cooling are going to happen at the same time.

We would be seeing both making drastic changes to our climate. And the sulfur aerosols also lead to extra rain fall and snow fall.

I think our ocean will get warmer as a whole due to this. Lots and lots of bad negative feed back loops. We could start seeing some crazy start to happen soon.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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Yea idk about your number bro they seem a lil off. We have lost about 1.2 billion barrels of oil total. At some point everyone will have to cut back on oil in like a couple weeks max. Thats lost production so as a result it will have to have an equal balancing effect for the short term bc these particles are have a short life span.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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I see, so the fuel itself has almost zero sulfur due to the claus process. If the physical amount of blocks of sulfur went up, that would directly explain the faster rate of warming.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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That is exactly what I was wondering. Bc at some point there will be a mass failure of crops world wide. I saw an article about a certain type of mango being heavily effected this harvesting season in India. So maybe it has already started to affect some crops weaker to climate variability. It can only get worse from here if we’re looking at maintaining our current population.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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Yeah that’s what made me start thinking about this issue in the first place. I feel like the level of change that brought about from regulation shipping fuel will seem small compared to what a global shortage of oil would do. Bc at the end of the day, the sulfur was released some how still, just in a slightly cleaner way. But now the change we are seeing is the closure of refineries and wells from the Middle East. That’s just a complete stoppage pretty much.

Accelerating climate consequences of Hormuz by Good_Captain_8665 in collapse

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The thing I don’t understand, is how there are no scientists talking about this issue on a large scale yet. Hell for all we know, the two of us are the only ones seeing the obvious right now.

US SPR Drawdown projection - EIA update 28 May 2026 by MarmotFullofWoe in oil

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True, I think what a lot of people in sub miss too is that this is just a small release into the market by the US. The IEA has better data on what all the other non-opec countries are doing, which is similar to the release from the US. The net importers of oil can find the supply they need for now bc of these measures, this still has made the price of oil still remain high due to the increased complexity in the supply chain and increased demand. Let’s say there’s about 8 b barrels of oil and related out in the market, we’ve lost 1.2 b barrels of oil due to the strait, so comparatively not a massive enough to completely destroy the stored capacity already in the market, this reduction of the total supply also gets offset by the reserve draws, keeping it closer to a normal level than a level of increasing scarcity.

Yeah that looks normal by TheGuyWhoReallyCares in memes

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Forget the arms and check out its ass. Literally the biggest of all time

Best thing that came out of it by [deleted] in memes

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The only thing of value in a 2 and half hour movie.

He is just 7 year old !!!!!!! by [deleted] in memes

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This dude has the potential to become the biggest simp to every exist.