12.11: Why the sea is boiling hot
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melannen. (I'm horribly behind on the meme because I spent…40 hours? last week on my vid for class yesterday.)
Why is the sea boiling hot? Because, dear reader, it is three billion years in the future and the sun is slowly expanding into its red giant phase. Mercury has already been consumed, Venus is even more hellish than it was before and is not long for this world, and it's our turn now. Soon our solar system will look like an exoplanetary formation, and everything in the inner solar system will be that much closer to rejoining the cosmological circle of life. We are all made of starstuff, in the end.
Alternatively, the sea is boiling hot because of climate change, which in about 100-200 years at current rates will have destabilized thermohaline circulation and fundamentally broken one of the planet's primary climate stabilizing mechanisms. So the top layers of the ocean are boiling, the bottom layers are freezing, and all of us on Earth are screwed.
melannen. (I'm horribly behind on the meme because I spent…40 hours? last week on my vid for class yesterday.) Why is the sea boiling hot? Because, dear reader, it is three billion years in the future and the sun is slowly expanding into its red giant phase. Mercury has already been consumed, Venus is even more hellish than it was before and is not long for this world, and it's our turn now. Soon our solar system will look like an exoplanetary formation, and everything in the inner solar system will be that much closer to rejoining the cosmological circle of life. We are all made of starstuff, in the end.
Alternatively, the sea is boiling hot because of climate change, which in about 100-200 years at current rates will have destabilized thermohaline circulation and fundamentally broken one of the planet's primary climate stabilizing mechanisms. So the top layers of the ocean are boiling, the bottom layers are freezing, and all of us on Earth are screwed.
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