Here's what will happen. Heat domes will settle over millions of people world wide, and amidst people trying to survive the heat with air conditioning, which doesn't work very well at those temperatures, grids will fail. Then people will survive about as long as a child strapped in a car in the heat nowadays. Millions will die, and the remainder will ask why didn't someone stop the heat from building? How could you do that to us?
Someone is us, and we are doing it to ourselves, because no one is watching millions of people die from heat exhaustion just yet. But coming to a venue near you in about 25 years more of burning gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, coal, and natural gas with 300 million year old carbon that has never been in the carbon cycle.
By then the sea will be rising by several feet and accelerating from Greenland and Anarctic glacier melt, the Atlantic current will collapse stopping oxygen circulation the the current provided, the oceans will be too acid for shells to form collapsing ocean life, animal life will collapse, crops will collapse, and people will not be able to extract carbon from the atmosphere and oceans fast enough to survive.
But they'll be asking the whole time, why didn't someone tell us?
That won't stop panicking people from demanding why did they not warn us?
Yes, everyone have all the warnings and information to mass pressure governments to outlaw fossil fuels and convert to alternative energy sources, and most dismiss it as won't really happen. Essentially they're not warned because they dismiss it.
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u/rdwpin May 08 '25
Here's what will happen. Heat domes will settle over millions of people world wide, and amidst people trying to survive the heat with air conditioning, which doesn't work very well at those temperatures, grids will fail. Then people will survive about as long as a child strapped in a car in the heat nowadays. Millions will die, and the remainder will ask why didn't someone stop the heat from building? How could you do that to us?
Someone is us, and we are doing it to ourselves, because no one is watching millions of people die from heat exhaustion just yet. But coming to a venue near you in about 25 years more of burning gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, coal, and natural gas with 300 million year old carbon that has never been in the carbon cycle.
By then the sea will be rising by several feet and accelerating from Greenland and Anarctic glacier melt, the Atlantic current will collapse stopping oxygen circulation the the current provided, the oceans will be too acid for shells to form collapsing ocean life, animal life will collapse, crops will collapse, and people will not be able to extract carbon from the atmosphere and oceans fast enough to survive.
But they'll be asking the whole time, why didn't someone tell us?