Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by ceejayoz on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:15PM
(#49425292)
There are regions on the planet that will likely fare better than others, though.
Not for long.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by mullingitover on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:30PM
(#49425448)
And we can tell ourselves that those regions which fare better will be left entirely alone. No one is going to, say, kill all the inhabitants and take the land from them.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by hackable_sand on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:01PM
(#49428246)
You can't own land, so that solves that issue.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by consumer451 on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:49PM
(#49425654)
Maybe you will require less insulation reconfiguration than some other regions, but it will be hard to escape the effects of billions of people suffering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
edit: To be clear, I still think there is time to react, and stop the worst impacts. We just need to get way off the rails of the route that we are currently on. If we put half of the heroic engineering + global capital that we put into fossil fuel extraction into better things, we could get most of the way to the goal. Fossil fuel extraction is like many simultaneous Manhattan Projects. It's nuts what we put into that.
Would be super cool if some of the breakout sessions titled "surviving WW III," were replaced by "avoiding WW III."
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by Muromec on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:08PM
(#49427524)
Luckily the residents of the regions that fare worse will not know what those other regions are.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by geraneum on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:24AM
(#49429049)
Do you happen to source everything you consume locally? From the phone and computer to building materials, clothing, food, healthcare equipment, etc.? If not, you’re in for a surprise when shit hits the fan.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:41AM
(#49430330)
The bad news is we're all reliant on global supply chains. And even ignoring the human side your ecosystem is probably reliant in some way on things like the migrations of birds and fish etc etc
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record
by TiredOfLife on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:22AM
(#49429771)
I live in a region where due to global warming our winters are colder than usual, also summers are colder (except for like a week where it was much hotter)
Are you not on planet earth? Unless you're on Mars, you're not far away from any effects.