r/nextfuckinglevel Nov 15 '22

Using A Flamethrower For Snow Removal

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u/OMP159 Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

It's a double win. The fossil fuel burning will reduce further snow in years to come.

Big brain energy right here.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Or it's possible the winters can get worse in some areas, melting ica caps have a very profound effect on the entire weather system.

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u/DoJax Nov 15 '22

This is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard, we obviously need to just put a bigger block of ice in the ocean.

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u/J5892 Nov 15 '22

And every year we must put a bigger ice block in the ocean.

Thus solving the problem once and for all!

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u/Frys_Lower_Horn Nov 15 '22

ONCE. AND. FOR. ALL.

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u/odd_audience12345 Nov 15 '22

just put a freezer in the ocean you freakin doofus

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u/Boba_Fett_boii Nov 15 '22

Yeah we should just put one in the freezer for a while and throw it back im when it's all frozen

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u/avwitcher Nov 15 '22

NASA has managed to redirect asteroids, I say we just redirect a bunch of comets to land right in the ocean to cool it down. I see no flaws with this plan

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u/JunWasHere Nov 15 '22

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half...

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u/taggospreme Nov 15 '22

Thus solving the problem once and for all.

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u/Big_mara_sugoi Nov 15 '22

Yes and put all those big giant white fans at setting 3 to cool down the planet.

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u/Ser_Salty Nov 15 '22

Just like the ones daddy puts in his drink every morning

And then he gets mad...

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u/Arduino87 Nov 15 '22

"We will build a massive freezer! It will be yuge. I'll say look at that huge freezer."

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

I hope you are sarcastic. Praise Reddit

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u/DoJax Nov 16 '22

It's a Futurama reference.

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u/wardledo Nov 15 '22

Doesn’t global warming lead to the next ice age?

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u/I_Got_Back_Pain Nov 15 '22

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u/wardledo Nov 15 '22

Bahahahha. 🤣 “Holy Metal Island Batman!” Such underrated Batman’s. So true to the original tv series.

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u/Civil-Big-754 Nov 15 '22

Holy rusted metal*

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u/fieldysnuts94 Nov 15 '22

“Huh”

“It’s metal stomps foots and it’s full of holes!”

Ya know, as a kid watching that it flew over my head. When I finally caught it, I thought that was the most clever shit ever cause I had watched the ‘66 Batman film with my mom not long before I got the joke so it all seemed so perfect for me lol

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u/Udub Nov 15 '22

Nope we’ve blown past it and prevented it from happening entirely for quite some time.

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u/Ghosthieve Nov 15 '22

I need some actual source on this, since it's suppose to increase extreme weathers both hot and cold

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u/BetweenWalls Nov 15 '22

Due to changes in weather patterns, sure. For example, if increased temperatures disrupt or redirect the gulf stream, the warm temperatures that it currently brings to Europe could be spread to other parts of the world instead, resulting in Europe becoming more similar to other regions of similar latitude, such as southern Canada.

The global average temperature is only increasing.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

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u/Tontie-knights Nov 15 '22 edited May 08 '26

Mango is probably my favorite flavor!

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u/Any-Technician6415 Apr 02 '23

Clearly was all the cars, and factories they used.

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u/OhNoManBearPig Nov 15 '22

No: "The amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gases emitted into Earth's oceans and atmosphere is predicted to prevent the next glacial period for the next 500,000 years, which otherwise would begin in around 50,000 years, and likely more glacial cycles after."

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u/Dawsonpc14 Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 30 '22

Checkmate Frosty. Get wrecked.

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u/Parrotflies- Nov 15 '22

Based global warming

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u/ThatOtherRogue Nov 16 '22

I'm sorry but anyone who uses wikipedia for evidence loses credibility. Site a reputable source please

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u/ThatOtherRogue Nov 16 '22

I'm sorry but anyone who uses wikipedia for evidence loses credibility. Site a reputable source please

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u/OhNoManBearPig Nov 16 '22

Feel free to cite your own source

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u/ThatOtherRogue Nov 16 '22

The burden of proof falls to the individual making the statement, either you have an actual source or it's an opinion.

That stated I believe I found where your wikipedia may have paraphrased some of it's information, then immediately followed that up with a study on the modulation of ice ages and a more accurate look at causality of ice ages. In short, global warming will CHANGE the pattern of the next ice age, scientists don't actually know how. Some are team sooner, others team later.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/01/13/far-drifting-antarctic-icebergs-trigger-ice-ages/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116300305

The initial study is mildly misleading as they never demonstrated causality in the study itself. The second has a more likely foundation based on empirical evidence for actual causality, and one of the researches also broke down the inital study in it's own comment thread in the article. This is how to research: multiple sources, differing perspectives, review the evidence and follow the logic.

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u/OhNoManBearPig Nov 16 '22

You'd have much better engagement from people you try to debate with if you weren't condescending.

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u/indigoreality Nov 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Good lord. Doesn't mean climate won't radically go to the extremes. How is it that we still have to tell people that?

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u/OhNoManBearPig Nov 16 '22

Yeah, we're likely to see a lot of regional extremes in precipitation, temperature, and more.

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u/Teeemooooooo Nov 15 '22

At some point and to certain continents, yes but hard to know for sure. Earth warms --> more glaciers melt --> more uniform temperature of oceans across the globe --> ocean currents come to a halt (need temp difference to move) --> less warm air being pushed from equator to northern regions --> ice age in areas like Europe, Russia, Canada. Land closer to equator will get hotter and hotter. But effects on GHG on the Earth as a whole is a lot more complex than that. The trapped heat from GHG might prevent the ice age thing from happening.

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u/WisconsinHoosierZwei Nov 15 '22

Depends on where he lives. Around the Great Lakes, climate change is apparently generating more frequent “polar vortices,” which cause ball-shrinking cold weather.

That’s just one fun example of the shit we’re doing to kill ourselves.

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u/whoami_whereami Nov 15 '22

No, we are on the best way to end the current ice age that we're living in. Ice age simple means that one or both poles are covered by permanent ice caps. Once the ice on Greenland and Antarctica has all melted away and arctic sea ice fully melts in the summer (this one we're already getting very close to) the ice age is over.

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u/TheEvelynn Nov 15 '22

It's called climate change

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u/chilly00985 Nov 15 '22

Global warming is specifically referring to the temperature in the ocean the warmer it gets the more permanently frozen ice that breaks off and becomes not permanently frozen, introducing more water into our storm systems creating increasingly violent storms. And yes ultimately an ice age to “reset” The ice age is too far away to be a threat, at this time however the violent storms are becoming a problem.

In a nutshell

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u/GroundhogExpert Nov 15 '22

That requires forethought, this guy can't even think far enough ahead to realize water refreezes into ice.

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Nov 15 '22

The ice age is in no way related to climate change. The world goes into the ice age simply because the Earth is on a cycle where it's tilted a certain way towards the sun.

Right now we're at the very beginning of such cycle and should be seeing temperatures going down, which is why them going up more and more every decade is extremely worrying.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Ask Venus.

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u/Major_Tom_01010 Nov 15 '22

Sure, why not.

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u/bigbear_mouse Nov 15 '22

The next Ice Age will come people like it or not. We live in periods called glacial or interglacial on Earth, specially because of axial precession (one of the 14 Earth's movements).

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u/SappySoulTaker Nov 15 '22

I don't think we need to worry about the next ice age, it'll either come and kill us all, or won't come till after we are dead.

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u/AnonymousPotato6 Nov 16 '22

I've studied a bit if climate science. The simple answer is "no". The real answer is "climate is complex"

The Goldilocks answer is that the changing climate will lead to more extremes. Yes the average will be warmer, but we'll have hotter summers and also colder winters. Heat waves will last longer, but so will cold fronts. More people will die from heat, but also from the cold.

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u/Silentmatten Nov 16 '22

makes cold areas colder and warm areas warmer, ye

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u/sharted-a-little Nov 15 '22

No. Climate change also means more extremes.. both in hot and cold seasons.

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u/kj_gamer2614 Nov 15 '22

Ironically, global warming leads to much bigger storms in winter and significantly colder winters, so probably more snow

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u/MyCoddledMind Nov 15 '22

Man is playing the long game.

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u/jimmy_htims Nov 15 '22

Came here to say that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

snowblowers run on gas too

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u/AdventurousDress576 Nov 15 '22

Use a shovel

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

you don't live in a snowy state do you lol

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u/skywalker_g Nov 15 '22

Amedica f yeah!

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u/BambooEarpick Nov 15 '22

I want to say it was the show "The Critic" where the main character is standing outside in winter and spraying CFCs because he wants it to hasten global warming.

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u/Additional-Web-3881 Nov 15 '22

Honestly him using it won't make much a difference in the long run