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In reply to the discussion: Study: Temperatures go off the charts around 2047 [View all]Javaman
(62,521 posts)9. I know what you mean.
I guess, my point was that I would have lived enough life by then.
I put solar panels on our house last year, not just to save on electricity, but for the future. At some point, we will be leaving the house to my girlfriends kids and at least they know, I tried.
Anyone I know and love who as kids today, I tell them to move north. Texas will be a hell hole in a few years.
Our generation will be the last to remember how things used to be. The next will hate us. and their kids will figure out a way to adapt.
we humans are such puny things, yet we think we know it all.
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The Mississippi River basin and its tributaries will become a desert on the scale of the Sahara.
baldguy
Oct 2013
#13
I read the other day about how the VA coast is already seeing a higher water level.
toby jo
Oct 2013
#10
It's not nitpicking, your last sentence was correct, and this study isn't so narrow as to cite
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#20
"If the predictions in this study turn out to be in error," And they certainly will, no doubt......
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#42
Well, I read this carefully, and that was the additional impression I got.
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#47
Are you a climate scientist? Do you have background in the field? Thanks! nt
Mojorabbit
Oct 2013
#48
No, but all you need to do is look at the actual data and projections from the IPCC and others......
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#50
I think you missed one thing, though: This study is an extreme outlier.....and a poorly done one....
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#39
Yes. Along with deaths associated in a kind of class warfare -- haves vs have-nots
Auggie
Oct 2013
#30
yes. basically anarchy and breakdown of all as everyone struggles to survive n/t
Locrian
Oct 2013
#34
guess we'll be seeing another Great Migration starting in about 7-9 years
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2013
#33
I'm sorry, but this study isn't exactly "innovative". It smells really off, actually.
AverageJoe90
Oct 2013
#38