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@Carwil@mastodon.online
2026-05-19 16:54:16

Breezing through the otherwise quite thoughtful bit of small-scale climate prophecy by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, I'm struck by (and not sure how to get past) the casual way Africa and Australia are totally destroyed in this brief mention on the last page of the imagined history.
#SciComm #CliFi

Humanity was also fortunate in that a so-called "Grand Solar Minimum" reduced incoming solar radiation during the twenty-second century by 0.5%, offsetting some of the excess CO, that had accumulated, and slowing the rise of surface and oceanic temperatures for nearly a century, during which time survivors in northern inland regions of Europe, Asia, and North America, as well as inland and high-altitude regions of South America, were able to begin to regroup and rebuild. The human populations o…