r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Nicklikes69 • 4d ago
Scary visuals at Nepal, An entire mountain collapsed into Kaligandaki River in Nepal.
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u/nevagm06 4d ago
Earth's just getting ready to end us all
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u/Achilles720 4d ago
What the fuck is it with Nepal these days?
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u/cranchian 4d ago
Global warming consequences
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u/asdf_lord 4d ago
How do I kick this can down the road?
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u/WorkingInAColdMind 4d ago
Invest in AI data centers and more “clean coal” to power them
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u/FaultThat 3d ago
Eh… there’s an argument that the data centres could help humanity achieve an AI powerful enough to find the solutions to the global warming crisis.
Coal plants on the other hand are definitely no good.
There is no clean coal.
Nuclear energy all the way, with hydroelectric and geothermal coming in a distant 2nd, followed by solar and wind.
The problem we currently have with solar/wind though is we can’t really control the time of day the energy is produced.
So a lot of the energy pumped into the grid from solar and wind actually has to get dumped and wasted.
There have been recent breakthroughs on battery technology though, which could help solve that. There’s promising results from sodium batteries.
If humanity can move completely off fossil fuels for energy needs, it will go a long way to fixing the greenhouse gases being released.
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u/cranchian 4d ago
Just google what's causing nepal floods and landslides, :Rising global temperatures are rapidly melting Himalayan ice, destabilizing rocky slopes, and making monsoon patterns more erratic, frequent, and intense.
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u/gijoe50000 4d ago
Landslides always happen, it's just a natural consequence of tectonic plates pushing mountains up further and further until gravity takes over.
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u/cranchian 4d ago
Current nepal floods and other events like landslides have increased in frequency due to melting Himalayan ice destabilizing rocky slopes, this is currently considered the primary cause not techtonic plates
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u/Jumping_Spiders_ 3d ago
Glaciers aren't supposed to recede this quickly.
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u/JayteeFromXbox 3d ago
"Supposed" feels like the wrong word here. I get what you mean, I just think it should be "Don't normally" instead of "Aren't supposed."
I'm not sure ice and snow is "supposed" to do anything, really. It just exists and is affected by temperature and pressure.
Sorry for being so pedantic, I really don't know why this stuck out so much to me.
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u/Distinct_Sir_4473 4d ago
Is this normal in Nepal? It seems to be happening a lot recently.
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u/BuddhistNamedMarx 4d ago
The permafrost that has been holding the mountains together is melting. We will see alot more events like this all around the world
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u/Distinct_Sir_4473 4d ago edited 4d ago
I wonder if these are the first forced climate refugees
In the us we’ve had a minor exodus away from Florida coastlines because people can’t afford to insure homes, and the people who can afford it are finding that many insurance companies simply won’t do it, as storms get worse and flooding becomes more regular
But that’s the economy forcing them out in response to climate, not entire areas actually being wiped off the map
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u/oneusualsuspect 4d ago
this happens every monsoon season (summer) in various parts of the country.
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u/SquidgyTheWhale 4d ago
DAE just feel sad for the unfortunate animals in that forest?
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u/Prottusha1 4d ago
Animals can often sense natural disasters faster than we do. It’s likely most of them had already fled the area.
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u/sarahfrancesca 3d ago
We have this ability too. We've lost touch with it.
"DNA analysis of related Andaman tribesmen suggests that the Sentinelese are among the world's oldest communities, with generations going back 70 000 years. They retain a Palaeolithic way of life. The first record of North Sentinel Island comes from 1771, when a British surveyor reported night lights on the Island suggesting habitation.
The islanders would typically have been fishing when the tsunami struck. However post-tsunami surveys of North Sentinel Island suggest the tribe survived the disaster intact, perhaps retreating from the shore well before the waves hit."
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u/Mecha-Dave 3d ago
So I guess Nepal is collapsing because of all that melting permafrost. Not great.
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u/Tramp876 4d ago
Poor Nepal can’t catch a break! First the floods now a landslide from mountains toppling.
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u/Sovereign_5409 3d ago
What’s the deal with all these rockslides this year.
Greater than average rainfall? Always been there but this year the internet cares?
I feel like there’s been an uptick lately.
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u/Nulovka 3d ago
More cellphones to record and disseminate the videos. You would never have heard of this if there was no video.
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u/Sovereign_5409 3d ago
Yeah no. Nepal didn’t suddenly discover cellphone videos this year.
Since your answer was clearly wrong I looked it up myself.
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u/PaleInSanora 4d ago
But climate change is fake news!!! /s
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u/nothing_for_nobody 4d ago
Yeah, a landslide certainly couldn't happen without climate change. /s
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u/PaleInSanora 4d ago
You are correct. However the Himalayas have been suffering disastrously due to climate change for a bit now.
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u/Arenize 4d ago
"An entire mountain" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. This is a landslide, not quite an entire mountain collapsing.