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It’s too late to save Britain from overheating, says UN climate chief (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's going to overheat first, just long enough for the folks there to spend billions of £ installing air conditioners, and then it's going to be plunged into a localized ice age.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you're saying that for a brief moment in time climate change will create a lot of value for shareholders?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

ಠ_ಠ Listen here you little shit.

serious answer

Only for "big HVAC." For everybody else, it's just a broken-window fallacy with no upside at all.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

So frost punk timeline 2 centuries late