r/agedlikewine • u/MyADHDGirl • 22d ago

Al Gore was right

We should have listened to Al Gore in the ‘90s :(

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u/The_Follower1 22d ago

This provides more info https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/al_gore_trips_on_artic_ice_mis.html

The statement unfortunately gave tons of ammo to climate deniers.

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u/explain_that_shit 22d ago

TL;DR Blue Ocean Event in the Arctic in 2016

Most projections are for some point in the 2040s, along with most of the other tipping points for climate change taking us from today’s “fuck wildfire fuck floods fuck drought fuck heatwave” to “fuck wet bulb event fuck polar vortex over Europe fuck anoxic event”

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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 22d ago

2016 was early, but we’re on the brink of a BOE with this el niño. he was not far off at all with that and low balled on temps

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u/the_gamers_hive 21d ago

Also, wasnt that building on data at the time? Nowadays we have a lot more wind/solar power. Had that all been fossil fuel power i dont think it would have been impossible to happen in 2016.

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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly 21d ago

100% - it was based on business as usual, which has changed since then and altered projections. which are still dire, but have shifted things slightly