...#DeGaulle's old weariness of #American supremacy materializes like #Cassandra's predictions in the #Illias for #Europeans. Their own current impotence is becoming more evident by the day. It cannot be overcome in the short term.
Even #France's president has now, finally, agreed to buy ammunition on the global market instead of buying (non-existent specimen) locally.
Western Europe woke up too late, #Ukraine should have joined #NATO a decade ago, as the #US had...
@peterdutoit
By my maths, which are iffy at best, Net GHG is going to go UP, in a not linear fashion, for a while, and only decline after we've driven ourselves into a "hothouse stone age." (grossly oversimplified)
If we don't nuke ourselves first.
Mainly because rich people don't want to give up their yacht money, and think they can ride it out while us peons burn.
My maths, which I again must stress are questionable at best, show "easy answers" to be bloody and unpopular.
...new inputs, it is my impression that warming is accelerating, as some scientists are claiming like #AndrewDessler 3), who has been right before as a #Cassandra.
In my understanding, #AMOC functions only if relatively heavy salt water sinks towards the bottom of the ocean near the North Pole.
With ice sheets breaking down, the ocean water is diluted with ancient melting
fresh water 💧.