silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months agoIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up1345arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1344arrow-down1external-linkIt’s 90 degrees Farenheit (32°C) in the Arctic right now | The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that iswww.scientificamerican.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square39linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·2 months agoTechnically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoCan earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
minus-squareVieuxQueb@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoSo we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThe main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoTechnically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agowell, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that. that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.
Technically we deterraformed Earth. Terraforming implies we’re making it more earth like when we’re doing the opposite.
Can earth become less earth-like? I’d argue that we’re changing the comparison standard so that more planets become more earth-like
So we are terraforming many planets without even setting foot on them, what an accomplishment!
The main attributes of this planet are skewing away from habitability not towards it.
Technically Earth is always exactly like Earth.
well, getting rid of the majority of humans will make it better for everything else, so there is that.
that we’re doing it to ourselves is gob smackingly stupid.