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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs It Possible That Worse Effects Of Global Warming Won't Wait Until 2100?
What these dire projections are wrong and the effects occur much sooner?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Expect the worst much sooner, specially when the current authoritarian regime denies the problems exist.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)If God gave human beings superior brains, why are they not using it? Is it because greed supersedes logic?
lapfog_1
(29,232 posts)A major impact from climate change would be apparent much sooner than predicted. I think 2025 is going hot be a problem for humanity in terms of dealing with it rather than ducking out heads in the sand and waiting for the water to rise enough to drown us . Yes
JCMach1
(27,581 posts)Most people's mind is still stuck on Gore's documentary.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)most of the models and their interpretations are very very very conservative.
most climatologists have, as of lately, stated that it's going to be much worse.
many have stated that climatologists in the past, didn't either tell the full truth or held back the really dire information out of fear that they would be called "alarmists" or worse "liars".
it's going to be, sooner than you think, a hell of a lot worse than you think. And very soon.
once upon a time, the mission was to keep the temps from rising past 2 degrees. Now, that's the accepted level by which we can expect temps to rise. The mission now is to keep the temps from rising past, wait for it, 4 degrees.
there was actual hope, that things could be reigned in, but now that the orange fluffer is in office, all bets are off. We are living at a very crucitial point in time regarding climate. what we do, right now, this very moment, and for the next 5 years, determines the outcome for the rest of the century. Thank about how fucked we are.
All models suggest that 4 degrees is a civilization, as we know it, ender.
people won't be gone, but there will be a hell of a lot less of us.