ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ on Nostr: the Starlink satellite swarm burnups will be one of the biggest nails in the coffin ...

the Starlink satellite swarm burnups will be one of the biggest nails in the coffin of our warming world and it may not even be remembered as one of the principal causes. it's warming that has largely yet to happen, but the satellites are already up there, just waiting to reach the ends of their short lifetimes, run out of propellant gasses, deorbit, and take swathes of our fragile ozone layer as they do in droves. that ozone plays a critical role in our climate, without it, more UV light will reach the surface, be converted to heat and reradiated into our atmosphere only to be reflected back by an ever increasingly IR opaque sky. It's all just... going to happen. It's already done, all we can do is try to not send up any more LEO satellites than we already have, and prepare ourselves to survive in a UV harsh world.