Post #1774784 · Elektrine

2026-01-11 13:20 UTC

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/ &quot;“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”&quot; #climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis

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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social 2026-01-11 13:22

@yokofakun@genomic.social Exactly. Good quote.

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@Kampfdiestel@mastodon.social 2026-01-11 13:27

@yokofakun@genomic.social "If it takes that long, it's not my problem, it's a problem of the future. So I can do what I want." It's not a problem of understanding, it's a problem of responsibility.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-01-11 15:23

@yokofakun@genomic.social The heat energy absorbed by the oceans in 2025 was “200 times the electrical use of everyone on the planet”. I hope we can find a way to harvest some of that energy to use or store or send into space, so we can slow down making things even worse

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-01-11 15:26

@yokofakun@genomic.social this sort of thing is why I keep wanting an estimate of the equilibrium temperature with our current atmospheric composition - the floor of how bad it would get if we stopped greenhouse emissions today and don’t hit any tipping points, the minimum of how hot a world our descendants will live in

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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-01-11 16:06

@yokofakun@genomic.social "Doomed we are, Captain Mainwaring!"

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@AH_99@mastodonapp.uk 2026-01-11 17:30

@yokofakun@genomic.social Could we create (public) industrial scale water based heat pumps and heat our homes and cool the sea?

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@dasdom@chaos.social 2026-01-11 18:14

@yokofakun@genomic.social And we won't stop using fossil fuels ever. We will use more and more and more and more. Our solution to the Fermi Paradox.

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@leeloo@chaosfem.tw 2026-01-11 20:05

@yokofakun@genomic.social The problem is... Most people don't expect to be alive in 100 years. And the ones with enough empathy to care about those who are, own neither power plants nor AI datacenters.

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@LocalZero_Ulm@climatejustice.global 2026-01-13 06:37

@yokofakun@genomic.social We are already experiencing the consequences: - huge snowmasses in northern Germany - floods in Valencia, Croatia, Australia We place all our efferts to inform and motivate people, politicians, companies and industries to think twice and strive for degrowth of fossil industry. #Unwetter #ExtremWetter #Snow2026 #Floods #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #ChangeTheSystemNotTheClimate

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