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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the catastrophe?

I understand there may be significant coastal erosion, periodic flooding, and other changes to local geographies. But that’s happening all the time. So some smaller islands may get swallowed up, shorelines may change; but at the same time when a glacier or whatever melts into the sea, doesn’t that be definition expose new landmass, create new habitats for plant and animal life?

Crops that used to be grown in Florida may later be grown in Ohio. And crops from Iowa suddenly can be grown really well in previously unused vast expanses of Canada.

I understand there is a claim that rising temps will mean more sever weather events. OK. I’m skeptical, but even assuming it’s true, some incrementally higher number of thunderstorms or wildfires doesn’t seem “catastrophic” in a global sense. [/quote]

[b]I guess you’re correct but not the way you think[/b]. It’s more like when we have multiple “once in a hundred year” events, they start to be normalized, not that they’re less impactful or catastrophic. An entire town in CA burned down in less than 3 hours. Wildfires are creating their own weather. And that’s just a little bit of the summer damage. When the smoke from a wildfire impacts air quality thousands of miles away, it’s not really small and local.

I’m also curious how you think the melting ice gives us more land. You do realize this isn’t an isolated glacier melting in the middle of Canada creating a lake and giving the polar bears a new swimming hole right? Much of the ice that’s melting is the “land” for these animals. When it’s gone they lose their connection to other land masses or just have less “land” because it melted.

[b]Have you read an article[/b] about this or are you using “logic” to figure out how not bad this is?

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This poster is right about nothing and I doubt reading the article will help.  They have already made up their mind. The facts exceed their curiosity. This is the complacence that has helped keep us here, and will continue to do so.

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