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When all the ice melts will Greenland be habitable? From what I understand most of Greenland is buried under a giant melting glacier. This is bound to reveal land when it melts all the way. But what qualities will this land have. It could be arable. Or it could desertify. I’m both unfamiliar with the weather patterns around Greenland and with the soil properties of melted permafrost. Of course given that climate change is already changing the jet stream in major ways there is no guarantee that current weather patterns over Greenland will prevail.
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yeah but the prime real estate will be in Canada and Antarctica
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Aug 6, 2018 23:06
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Ein cooler Typ posted:yeah but the prime real estate will be in Canada and Antarctica That map is looking real dismal to me
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Aug 6, 2018 23:13
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PTSDeedly Do posted:That map is looking real dismal to me You'll (all of us) be dead long before it's a reality.
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Aug 6, 2018 23:14
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Looks like western Antarctica will be where I move.
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Aug 6, 2018 23:51
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Glaciers strip off all the top soil so you’re left with sheer rock for a couple hundred thousand years. Rock yields to mosses which yield to lichens which yield to small non woody plants which yield to woody shrubs and so forth until you’ve accumulated enough organic matter. Then humans arrive and gently caress it all up with logging and grazing and you’re back to iceland.
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Aug 6, 2018 23:53
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hopefully we stem the migration of the poors with bombs
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Aug 6, 2018 23:55
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by "we" i mean the remnants of western civilization, not any particular race or nationality.
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Aug 6, 2018 23:56
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I'll be living in a cloud city on Venus by that time. 
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Aug 7, 2018 00:00
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Pawn 17 posted:I'll be living in a cloud city on Venus by that time. New Beijing?
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Aug 7, 2018 00:01
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cowofwar posted:Glaciers strip off all the top soil so you’re left with sheer rock for a couple hundred thousand years. So land will be cheap to buy you’re saying?
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Aug 7, 2018 00:03
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cowofwar posted:Glaciers strip off all the top soil so you’re left with sheer rock for a couple hundred thousand years. They all said I was dumb as gently caress for hoarding piles of dirt but now they'll crawl to me and ask for some dirt and I'll whisper "okay" because I don't want to cause a scene.
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Aug 7, 2018 00:38
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Cant we just send our poo poo to Greenland so they can turn it into soil? Worked for that guy stuck on Mars.
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Aug 7, 2018 00:39
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Guess i'll have to be a real German once our swamp floods.
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Aug 7, 2018 00:51
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luchajones posted:Cant we just send our poo poo to Greenland so they can turn it into soil? Worked for that guy stuck on Mars. Hell of an idea! You may just be the one to save humanity.
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Aug 7, 2018 00:56
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Calling a frozen block of ice 'Greenland' has to be the most blatant piece of false advertising in history.
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Aug 7, 2018 00:56
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Say Nothing posted:Calling a frozen block of ice 'Greenland' has to be the most blatant piece of false advertising in history. It literally was false advertising. Eric the Red went there and wanted to draw more settlers to it and knew calling it "Holy loving poo poo it's an ice planet" wasn't going to get a lot of takers
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Aug 7, 2018 01:01
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I want to soak in a lava pond.
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Aug 7, 2018 01:03
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be the first to have sex with the virgin ground
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Aug 7, 2018 01:12
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The map doesn't show mounds of skeletons in all the deserts heh
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Aug 7, 2018 01:13
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:be the first to have sex with the virgin ground Zeluth posted:I want to soak in a lava pond.
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Aug 7, 2018 01:13
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Maybe instead of living on land like plebs we shall construct great underwater cities in the acid seas full of medusas and plastic. Be like gungans from that amazing award winning scifi film "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace". Just a thought!
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Aug 7, 2018 01:19
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gently caress all of you Elon haters. I'm going to Mars and mine water.
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Aug 7, 2018 01:34
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Climate change is, for lack of a better word, good?
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Aug 7, 2018 02:00
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FYI most of Canada's tundra is going to just be a useless bog when it thaws. If it's suitable cropland it's already being farmed. Global warming might make the growing season longer but it's going to be offset by giant forest fires and massive summer droughts. Basically there's no upside to global warming. We're all going to die. If you had children they're most likely going to come of age in a world much more horrible than the one we have now. RIP this dumb gay earth.
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Aug 7, 2018 02:01
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yeah the sahara is gonna green up real nice. its just not hot enough yet. way to go scientists
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Aug 7, 2018 02:02
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I prefer the term "global worming".
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Aug 7, 2018 02:02
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Well, at least the produce in Alaska will be fresher now that we can grow stuff outside the Matanuska Valley.
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Aug 7, 2018 02:30
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I lost a contact lens when hiking in Greenland so when the snow melts nobody's gonna loving set foot on that island before I find it.
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Aug 7, 2018 19:13
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I'm the guy who who maintains all those solar panels that cover all that unlivable desert hellscape. Or maybe I'm the robot who maintains them, and in that case I unplug the extension cord that takes it to the useless parasite humans.
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Aug 7, 2018 19:17
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I can't wait to live in an Antarctic labor camp!
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Aug 7, 2018 19:45
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Foreskin Problems posted:I can't wait to live in an Antarctic labor camp! I would rather wait as long as possible, but, oh, well!
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Aug 8, 2018 05:54
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I'm the guy who who maintains all those solar panels that cover all that unlivable desert hellscape. if you have enough solar panels you can power enough air conditioning to make it comfy
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Aug 8, 2018 06:00
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PyPy posted:You'll (all of us) be dead long before it's a reality. so ten years from now?
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Aug 8, 2018 06:02
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Well, at least the produce in Alaska will be fresher now that we can grow stuff outside the Matanuska Valley. hopesully alaska will maintain its title as rape capitol of america
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Aug 8, 2018 06:03
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Greenland is getting strip mined the second those glaciers are off
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Aug 8, 2018 06:03
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Neutrino posted:gently caress all of you Elon haters. I'm going to Mars and mine water. Lol only ultra rich billionaires will get anywhere near private spacecraft
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Aug 8, 2018 06:09
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Ein cooler Typ posted:yeah but the prime real estate will be in Canada and Antarctica I know its the hip thing to think the devoses/princes will rule the wastelands but it will probably be some seven mountains true believer instead
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Aug 8, 2018 06:17
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Lawrence Gilchrist posted:I know its the hip thing to think the devoses/princes will rule the wastelands but it will probably be some seven mountains true believer instead im going to kick box everyone until their faces are concave.then ill rule the sierra nevada & its satrapies
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Ill pray you be a onepunchman and not an enkidu
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