So the earth will be cooling down after that? Phew, that is a relief! Kinda silly headline as we don’t know how warm it’s going to get. Eventually the ice sheets will become glaciers, won’t they?
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By “peak glacier loss” the article seems to be talking about when most of the glaciers are gone and at that point there’s not many left to lose.
The year the last male northern white rhino died, only one northern white rhino died on the whole planet, which was orders of magnitude fewer northern white rhino deaths per year than just a few decades earlier.
Doesn’t make this picture any less gut wrenching though:
With fewer possible glaciers to disappear and there being less to lose every year it’s almost inevitable because nothing is being done to address fossil fuel consumption.
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So the earth will be cooling down after that? Phew, that is a relief! Kinda silly headline as we don’t know how warm it’s going to get. Eventually the ice sheets will become glaciers, won’t they?
By “peak glacier loss” the article seems to be talking about when most of the glaciers are gone and at that point there’s not many left to lose.
The year the last male northern white rhino died, only one northern white rhino died on the whole planet, which was orders of magnitude fewer northern white rhino deaths per year than just a few decades earlier.
Doesn’t make this picture any less gut wrenching though:
https://time.com/5482842/time-top-10-photos-2018-sudan-northern-white-rhino/
With fewer possible glaciers to disappear and there being less to lose every year it’s almost inevitable because nothing is being done to address fossil fuel consumption.