Curious take on Climate Change

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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu May 04, 17 12:14 pm Post subject: Curious take on Climate Change
In discussion on another forum a chap accepts that climate change is happening, but is asking for evidence that it will actually be a problem...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu May 04, 17 2:45 pm Post subject:
hansen might be a start better still point them at the ice age thread on ds best simple answer I can think of is " can your house stand a 250mph wind, would the disruption of a sudden 10m sea level rise upset your life,have you the means to survive a sudden onset famine?"

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Thu May 04, 17 5:17 pm Post subject:
For the world? Nope, no problem. For Homo sapiens? Yeah..big trouble. Maybe he was thinking of the big big picture...

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri May 05, 17 2:05 pm Post subject:
I think the biggest take home is to think of how we're handling with the current number of displaced peoples of the world. And then to consider how many millions (billions?) will be displaced with sea level rise, and drastic changes in where arable land exists

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat May 06, 17 7:43 pm Post subject:
biohazard potential is another aspect that might give cause for concern.

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