Questions tagged [climate-change]
For questions about planetary climate change.
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climate control and carbon sequestration via bulk air liquification
When there's a stationary high pressure ridge heat domes can form that increase the air temperature and decrease precipitation. But what if one were to kinda suction the air out of the atmosphere, ...
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Evaporation phase runaway greenhouse planet, getting temperature and air pressure values
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When Earth reaches the Komabayashi–Ingersoll limit, it will reach the point where a runaway greenhouse can occur. In the evaporation phase, Earth will end up with an ...
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What are some plausible means for increasing the atmospheric pressure on a post-apocalyptic earth?
I want my post-apocalyptic science-fantasy setting to be at least plausible enough for people to suspend their disbelief comfortably, rather than having to ignore obvious physical fallacies. I want ...
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How long would it take for a global resurfacing event to turn a habitable world into a Venusian world?
Let’s imagine I have a warm, habitable, earth-like world that receives more stellar flux than Earth does, but thanks to having a higher albedo (due to a slow day length and more opaque atmosphere), ...
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What would happen to the overall climate in New England if the warm Jet Stream crossing the United States moved from its course further south?
I'm working on a post-apocalyptic story that will have various climate-related disasters across the United States, significantly contributing to the struggles of the people still managing to survive ...
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Using real examples, how long might it take for the species in a forest/jungle to respond to sudden climate change? [closed]
In my world, thriving forests/jungles experience abrupt and permanent shifts in climate. They remain wet enough to avoid desertification, but some species that thrive in one temperature range would ...
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Global warming in an apocalyptic future?
In my world, there's a global apocalypse that wipes out humanity, but I'm wondering how global warming might continue even with the lack of additional greenhouse gases. If emissions suddenly stopped, ...
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How would a supernatural boiling sea in the Southern Ocean affect Earth's climate? [closed]
How would a boiling sea in the southern ocean near Antarctica affect Earth's climate? This boiling sea was caused by supernatural forces providing the energy to boil the water while also keeping it ...
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Societies After A Sudden 'Ice Age'
About 300 years ago, my world underwent massive climate change. It suddenly shifted from something we'd consider normal/livable to a climate similar to that of the last glacial maximum. (Side note: I ...
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What would happen if the Panama Isthmus was turned into an island chain?
I understand that the Panama Isthmus is necessary for the Gulf Stream, but what would happen if instead of a solid land bridge, like shown below, it was radically changed into a series of islands ...
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What would a city look like that adapted to sporadic tsunami-like flash floods?
In a near future where super-cell storms drop massive amounts of water (300 l/m²) in the blink of an eye, cities - built upon the cities of old - have adapted to these tsunami-like flash floods. But ...
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How far can climate change go while still having enough of a biosphere to maintain a breathable atmosphere?
I’m running a one-shot campaign and I want it to be in a future where climate change has continued unabated but not so far that people can’t breathe on the surface.
Realistically, how hot can it get ...
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How the sky will change with stratospheric aerosol injections?
The world I am designing has successfully survived the event of the almost complete depletion of natural oil reserves. By "successfully" I mean that cities are densely populated, the stock ...
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Florida during climate change: what does it look like?
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My character lives in a future where some folks have moved under the sea, and sea levels have risen. There are scenes where she comes up to the dry land, and I need to describe the city ...
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How to keep critters out of my flooded skyscrapers?
Overall setting -- "loosely future Earth," say a hundred years from now, with plausible levels of realism (doesn't have to be perfect, but should feel familiar and match intuition). Climate ...
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