There are a couple of new climate stories that have been circulating recently.
First off, is John Kerry’s assertion at the UN that global inaction on climate change amounts to a suicide pact. He was trying to get the issue upgraded by the UN so there might be some effective action, but other nations were not interested in that. The idea of suicide by willful ignorance mirrors what I said about the US COVID-19 response being a conservative mass suicide, and it has the same horrible side effect (which was pointed out by someone who commented to my previous post): That conservative mass suicide doesn’t just kill conservatives.
The conservative mass suicide of climate change now has a significant chance of ending the entire human specie — and that’s fine with conservatives because they would rather kill themselves and everyone along with them than admit they were wrong about anything. Right now, it looks like poorer nations — those that have been the victims of the west for hundreds of years — will suffer a lot more than the west. However, the entire continental US is also on track to become uninhabitable somewhere between 2050 and 2100. Conservatives don’t care — they’ll be dead by then, so it doesn’t matter.
In related news, climate change is melting glaciers and dumping huge amounts of fresh water into the oceans. That weakens the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is vital to the normal functioning of the entire planet’s climate. It might seem paradoxical, but weakening of the AMOC can cause severe cold weather in places like the northeast US and western Europe; it will also create more intense heat waves and storms. This is a separate phenomenon from the dramatic dipping of the polar vortex south that recently froze Texas (for example), but the two things are likely to affect one another. Both things are a direct result of the slow, but steady increase in the planet’s temperature caused by human activities.
The failure of the AMOC was the main theme of the very dumb movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. “The Day After Tomorrow” portrayed a sudden and complete AMOC shutdown that immediately created a new ice age, but no other consequences. While there is a “tipping point” for the AMOC, in reality, an AMOC shutdown would just make climate so unstable that we would not be able to survive (with continuous extreme heat, extreme cold, and extreme storms which would not be evenly distributed), and would likely create an oceanic anoxic event (depletion of oxygen dissolved in at least one of our oceans) which would kill everything there and would itself be a mass extinction event which humans are not equipped to survive. These consequences would not be instantaneous, but would rather be experience by humanity as a slow grinding down of everything.
When that happens, conservatives will blame antifa.