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kingkongjaffa
on May 10, 2024
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Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics due...
As the earths core cools, does that mean the tectonic movement will slow down and our carbon cycle will become busted?
icehawk
on May 10, 2024
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The sun will become more luminous to a point it will stop plate tectonics by evaporating the oceans far sooner (about a billion years from now) than it will take the earth's core to cool.
jajko
on May 10, 2024
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By that time we will have completely different issues, like enlarged sun burning everything down
dartos
on May 10, 2024
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We’d be in the sun
exe34
on May 10, 2024
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Not immediately. We'll see it coming, but quarterly corporate plans and 4-5 year election cycles will mean we won't do anything until it's too late.
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