In light of recent events

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In light of recent events - Lemmy.world

This gives me an idea…
I first heard this joke from Father Guido Sarducci.
“Recent events,” uh, was there a nuclear war I missed?
Blinken Says Nuclear War Threat No Worse Than Climate Change - UrduPoint

The potential threat of nuclear war is no more dangerous than the existential problem of climate change and there is no hierarchy in this regard, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday.Well, you cant, I think, have a hierarchy. There are some things that are front and center - the wol ..

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Probably talking about the multiple record-setting days we’ve had heat-wise recently
We restarted the earth… many people and things died. No laughing matter

Whenever I hear people saying this, I always think of that guy who put chili powder and mint into his mouth at the same time.

Yes, it sounds like it should cancel out. No, in reality it definitely doesn’t.

the world is just gonna be spicy at that point, lmao
Now I kind of want to know what that tastes like. Like a big part of what we consider “spicy” is that it triggers the “very hot” sensors in our mouth without triggering the “warm” sensors that are usually triggered with it, so you end up with a combination that’s usually impossible. Mint+ chilli powder would be like the next level of that, triggering both hot and cold at the same time
I mean, it does, but only for a very little while. After a few decades, the cooling effect of a nuclear winter would be gone, while global warming will only cool down naturally over thousands of years. Either way, humans would be fucked, since nuclear winter cools the Earth by up to 8 degrees - that’s an ice age. So nuclear winter would actually make things a lot worse for humanity (even ignoring radiation and destruction), since the few survivors of the global ice age would have to face global warming next.
Futurama - Global Warming

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Would a Futurama Sized Ice Cube Stop Global Warming? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Yeah it’s called glaciers