I'm beginning to notice a correlation between new iphones and climate change...
I mean in a round about, somewhat symbolic way...
They used to say "go see the glaciers before they no longer exist" and that time came faster than people expected.
We are so, so boned.
Glaciers have been melting and reforming since the earth existed, we aren't special. The climate goes through stages
This is like saying, "people die, that happens."
Yes... But the average lifespan is around 78 years, not 4.
Ok so lets just go with it So The earth goes through cycles where it becomes uninhabitable for humans. You think we should just let it happen?
This is the dumb shit about the climate deniers arguments. Even if you don't think humans are causing it, we should be working towards preserving earth in a state that humans are acclimated to. Fund climate research and ways to SLOW change if nothing else.
Brain damaged.
Human bodies slowly die over the course of 75ish years, so by your logic if you see someone stabbing the shit out of someone there is no reason to stop it because naturally they are going to die anyway and we shouldn’t take any action to stop the person from dying?
The speed is the issue.
I guess the current 'stage' is human-induced ecological collapse. Just another chapter in the earth's story.
Our short lived civilizations and their survival, and our much much shorter lives and the lives of our direct descendants, can't be stretched to fit into geological timescales. So I'm not really seeing the point you're trying to make if there even is one.
I get that we aren't special and the earth will be here, but we are responsible for accelerating green house gasses by pulling it out of the ground. The cycle is going too fast for the other life on earth to adapt. In the past, like the cold that caused the dark ages was because of volcanoes and so on.
If your point is, "the climate changes anyway, humans will be fine", I strongly disagree.
If your point is, "once the Earth kills off all of those pesky humans, it will recover from this damage within the next ~million years and will ultimately be fine", I agree, unfortunately we won't be here to see it.
yes they do tend to change over the course of a few hundred thousand or even millions of years. not over a 10 yeah gap
Right right... all that coal and oil that sat for hundreds of millions years was going to just all burn itself in a measly 200 years.
Not a single rebuttal! (That I could find). What's the point of spouting denial of extremely well established science, if you're not even gonna defend it.
We shall wait on you with baited breath for your vigorous research backing up the claim that the rate at which the climate is changing is normal, and not going to be catastrophic like all (practically) the world's climate scientists keep finding, again, and again and again. Climate science is about to be revolutionised with your insights, no doubt.
On the walk up to that glacier there are markers that show where it used to be on the path up. If I remember right it used to be a mile long from the point that photo is taken from only 40 years ago.
Gosh, that's a striking mental image. I don't have words to adequately describe how I feel right now. It's the same thing I felt when I looked at the images in the OP, except distilled down and super concentrated
The last pic might be a bit controversial. That lake destroyed one of the most beautiful places in Utah with countless ancient artifacts lost forever. I would love to see Glen Canyon someday without it being under a lake. Hayduke lives.
that hippy looking doggo needs a haircut and a job.
And the sign said, "long-haired hippy doggo", need not apply
Looks like Gene Simmons.
:(
This hits harder than a disappointed pimp
Have to wonder if these are the same time of year.
Like... probably. Climate change has definitely caused this much damage and worse. But one should always be skeptical of images on the internet, doubly so if you agree with them.
Don't know about the other ones, but glaciers don't go through yearly cycles.
I visited a glacier up here in Canada a couple years ago, it was very cool but also really sad compared to how it was a decade ago.
Even the Dog is sad..
That dog looks like a sad goth
I thought the second picture was just zoomed out and was like "damn, the earlier phones were so much better!"
But then realized that this is a side-by-side comparison of the same exact spot showing the same specific section of a blue glacier. And it's.... I just realized that growing up, I saw glaciers in the mountains that are now probably entirely gone. That's insane to think about. That glaciers just... Won't...be anymore. I wonder what the ramifications and implications of that are? OH WAIT WE ALREADY FUCKING KNOW
Man, I miss my iPhone 4S.
