We're Toast 38

This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is part of an ongoing series of posts.

Driving in the fog

• Antarctic ice melt could disrupt the world’s oceans: Study. "A major ocean circulation that forms around Antarctica could be headed for collapse, risking significant changes to the world’s weather, sea levels and the health of marine ecosystems, scientists say, offering a stark warning about the growing impacts of climate change."
• Ice sheets can collapse at 600 metres a day, far faster than feared, study finds. "Sediments from last ice age provide ‘warning from the past’ for Antarctica and sea level rise today, say scientists."
• He Wanted to Unclog Cities. Now He’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1.’ "Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats." (Gifted article, no paywall).
• Bubble trouble: Climate change is creating a huge and growing U.S. real estate bubble. "Rising seas, bigger floods, and other increasing climate hazards have created a dangerous instability in the U.S. financial system."
• ‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high. "Scientists warn of more marine heatwaves, leading to increased risk of extreme weather."
• A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be? "Now, no one knows yet if influenza D causes any symptoms in people. But altogether, these studies indicate influenza D is likely what's called an emerging virus, Leibler says. It's jumping into people who work with animals, such as dairy farmers, but it's not likely spreading much beyond that."
• Potential recombination between SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV: calls for the development of Pan-CoV vaccines. Such a recombination would be very bad news. 
• How Does COVID-19 Affect the Heart? "Imaging and epidemiologic studies of recovered COVID-19 patients suggest that even mild illness confers increased risks of cardiac inflammation, cardiovascular disorders, and cardiovascular death."
• 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech. " Free AI voice cloning technology from startup ElevenLabs has been used by trolls to imitate the voices of celebrities. The generated audio ranges in content from memes and erotica to virulent hatespeech."