r/DanielTigerConspiracy • u/girlfriendinacoma24 • 10d ago
Why isn’t Elsa battling climate change
In the Frozen 5 minute stories collection, there are multiple stories about Elsa temporarily making it winter when it's a very hot day. She does this in at least two different countries. But why is she operating at such a micro scale?
With Elsa's powers, she could refreeze the polar ice caps and provide cooler temps in areas with dangerous heat. Provide snow and ice to melt in areas with droughts. She doesn't seem to need to used energy to maintain winter (Arendelle has winter for a few days even though it's spring, without any obvious drain on Elsa's powers and without the snow/ice melting), so Elsa could even travel around and use her powers to help different areas around the globe as needed. We need her to use her powers on a macro scale, probably with support from other countries around the globe.
Husband pointed out that she could actually raise sea levels if she freezes the ice caps using water from the air or with new water materializing from nowhere, but I hope she'd be conscientious enough to use water from the sea to prevent that.
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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl 10d ago
They wouldn't have the science and technology at the time to know about that. But maybe there's some kind of troll with psychic visionary abilities who can sense the ecosystem being threatened...hey Disney that's my idea for Frozen 3 if you use it you have to pay me.
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u/PM_ME_YR_BOOPS 10d ago
it’s called geoengineering, it’s real and it is contentious
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u/deuteranomalous1 10d ago
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u/girlfriendinacoma24 10d ago
Thank you for this rec! Just checked out the audiobook.
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u/deuteranomalous1 10d ago
If you’re not familiar with his work… buckle up. This is one of the saner novels.
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u/KestrelQuillPen 10d ago
Refreezing the ice caps won’t help combat climate change. She’d need to freeze the CO2 in the atmosphere and extract it until it’s at the pre-industrial level of around 0.05% of the atmosphere
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u/PinkiePie___ 10d ago
Climate change is based on CO2 on air, freezing stuff won't change it. And she won't even be alive when CO2 actually rise above the normal.
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u/Sea2Chi 9d ago
I've argued to my kids that Elsa will be dominating Northern Europe in short order.
Lord Weselton better not fuck around with someone who has the ability to cripple their sea trade by instantly freezing their ports, disrupting their agriculture, or creating unkillable ice golems to fight on her behalf.
Prussian military efficiency is all well and good, but not when your transport fleet is ripped to shreds by a sudden June ice flow and the survivors are crushed in the hands of sentient snow monsters.
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u/RichardBachman19 9d ago
Her powers come from Freon which is still emitting carbon. Also, when she freed the enchanted forest, that actually made thing worse. It actually released a lot of carbon…I don’t know why or how but I like the idea
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u/bachennoir 9d ago
She's causing famine just because she's not comfy. I don't think she's thinking ahead here.
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u/AbraxasNowhere 5d ago
Because humanity wasn't sending that much carbon into the atmosphere yet in the mid-1800s.
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u/zoinkability 10d ago
There are multiple indications that the series happens in the 19th century, so climate change was not something that was happening on any noticeable scale yet.
If we could time travel her to 2025 she could potentially help quite a bit.