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(12,233 posts)Science. Simply put, the average temperature of the earth is warming. The results of the warming, especially in the ocean and in the arctic regions are creating differing global weather patterns. The 100yr storms are coming at a much faster rate as to be "normalized". The currents in our oceans, the wind patterns, the deep water arctic current... All of these things are changing at a fast rate. The coral reef systems and marsh systems aren't getting enough time to naturally change. The krill in the arctic oceans are being effected, benthic organisms are being effected... It's not that the globe hasn't changed, it's the rate of change that is occurring. The last time a major atmospheric change occurred, the dinosaurs died off in a mass extinction.
So, yes, the earth is warming. The results from the warming are what has been predicted to occur. I know from studying these sciences from years back. Al Gore would have been a good direction to have had in 2000, instead of oil Barron's Bush and Cheney at the helm of destruction.
And saying, well we are F&$@ed, so why bother doing anything now, isn't something that I think we should say. I think we should progress and move into sustainable living and make sure people who are in the paths of the most destruction have the ability to survive.