silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 days agoIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1343arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: collapse@sopuli.xyzworldnews@lemmygrad.ml
arrow-up1342arrow-down1external-linkIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square39linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: collapse@sopuli.xyzworldnews@lemmygrad.ml
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·7 days agoTechnically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agowell, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that. that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 days agoTechnically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·7 days agoCan earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
minus-squareVieuxQueb@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 days agoSo we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoThe main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
well, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that.
that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
Technically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
Can earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.