Don't Panic
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Personally, I'm excited to see what kind of biomes end up emerging on a melting/melted Antartica.
Well ok, even I'm not pessimistic enough to think I'll live to see that, in a way that its dramatically different than it is now, but hey, its like uh... a subbranch of speculative evolution, sorta.
Maybe in a 100-200 years we have enough glacial loss and icemelt that West Antarctica might have parts where actual soil is regularly facing the sun.
I think this is a 'what if all the ice was gone' map:
How exactly were the names "East Antarctica" and "West Antarctica" in that map decided? What does "East" and "West" mean at the South Pole?
"Most of us" is not "all of us". Humanity will survive and the survivors will adapt.
Nothing but positivity here.
Always the poor, disabled, marginalised, chronically ill, non first world, will be hit the hardest and die at the highest rates.
My professional advice is to not be any of those things when shit hits the fan.
Tries to wish lifelong chronic illness away
Have tried being a millionair? That seems to make problems go away quite easily.
you know what has been really funny all my life. laughing at the rich people in the hospital.
oh wait, i'm not that much of a dick.
That’s if we survive WWIII, disease, and climate change.
That's not how that works. The Sahara savannah is tied to the rotation of the earth on its axis. That takes roughly 23,000 years. The period of time between savannah periods is about 13,000 years and the last one ended roughly 6,000-7,000 years ago. The next one will start in roughly 6,0000-7,000 more years.
This is oversimplified, by a lot. There are many factors impacting Africa's aridity, including the current glaciation cycle, sea levels as a result thereof, the AMOC, etc.
... Are you aware of any study or perhaps graphic or map based on a studies that... actually tries to model the effects of an AMOC shutdown?
Because I loosely keep up with Paul Beckwith's roughly weekly videos and uh... the SMOC ain't doin so great, and like, currently, and in the last month or two... well, the artctic polar vortex has ... more or been destabilizing... to a rather extreme amount...
True, but I'm not trying to write a dissertation while enjoying my morning bowl o weed
Well you were certainly happy to discredit it. If you aren't willing to explain why, dont speak
It will be, like, an oasis for us in the future!