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No quick fix to reverse ‘astonishing’ Antarctic sea ice loss: Scientists (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Oh you mean we can't just cover Antarctica with Styrofoam? Shoot!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You joke, but just wait till the billionaires start enacting geoengineering schemes unilaterally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would they do that? It’s cheaper to just build a mansion in newly tropical Svalbard island.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Hubris is the reason why billionaires do what they do most of the time. Trying to do geoengineering is precisely the kind of a grand scheme these people would try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I hear Mars is nice this time of year.

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