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El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather | Meteorologists predict it will be the strongest of century, UN secretary-general calls it ‘urgent climate warning’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

That causes a lot of local harm. You get a wide variety of oil byproducts dumped on all the people within a few miles of the refinery and if it used HF as a catalyst, you may immediately kill a huge number of people. Graceful shutdown is far preferable

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    We've been trying to gracefully shut them down for 50 years.

    I think the short term consequences outweigh the long term consequences of not doing it.

    But it probably makes more sense to target the boats trying to pickup the oil from the refineries, while they're empty. Yemen and Iran have shown the efficacy of underwater suicide drones.

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