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[–] 127 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Hey, look a feature every mammal may need to evolve in the near future!

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop fucking cats.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I've been fucking the dog for decades.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Are oceans getting saltier? The glaciers that are melting are pure freshwater

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    I'm not an expert but from a quick googling it seems the oceans are getting LESS salty

    https://www.llnl.gov/article/37921/atmospheric-warming-altering-ocean-salinity-and-water-cycle

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I suppose that's only a short-term effect.
    Long-term prognosis should be the oceans getting saltier because of the rivers carrying salt into the oceans until the equilibrium between salt being carried into the oceans and salt being sedimented at the ocean bed has been restored.
    Well, in geological time frames 'short-term' can be quite a long timespan.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    You're halfway there! If the oceans are getting less salty, where else's the extra water coming from?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I literally already said the answer to that in my original comment.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    I think that what SpaceNoodle is trying to say is that the decrease in ocean salinity is correlated to a decrease in fresh water, so even though salinity is dropping, adaptations need to be made because we will run out of fresh water.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I literally already said the answer to that in my original comment.

    Uhh, no you didn't? At least, not the way I interpret it.

    It looks like you were saying "oceans are getting less salty, and therefore this adaptation is less needed". But @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world was saying "the reason they're getting less salty is because fresh water is becoming more scarce, and therefore the adaptations are more needed".

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