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1. If the trends continue...

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Thu Sep 19, 2019, 01:24 PM

Sep 2019

Last edited Thu Sep 19, 2019, 02:19 PM - Edit history (1)

I think it is going to just keep going this way. The process will continue to accelerate and feedback loops will continue to cycle, spin, rinse and repeat. What is predicted for thirty years down the line will come much faster than expected. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes exponential.

We have had a heavy foot on the gas pedal for a long time and the pedal is to the metal and the road is finite. The big party is coming to an end. Everything comes and goes. Eat, drink and be merry for...

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SOMETHING STRANGE IS HAPPENING TO GREENLAND'S ICE SHEET [View all] Pluvious Sep 2019 OP

If the trends continue... Newest Reality Sep 2019 #1

TRUTH! Mickju Sep 2019 #5

I'm with you paleotn Sep 2019 #9

That's it. Fuck ANYONE driving a car, truck or SUV with less than 30 mpg DemocracyMouse Sep 2019 #17

And BTW... DemocracyMouse Sep 2019 #19

Double the damage/halve the time Boomer Sep 2019 #21

I kind of think that way, too. Newest Reality Sep 2019 #23

K&R UTUSN Sep 2019 #2

Trump supporters say that all we need is LESS regulation and we will be safer world wide wally Sep 2019 #3

and more guns and more pickup trucks and lower gas mileage Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #4

And MOAR beautiful clean coal too !! Pluvious Sep 2019 #7

If Trump offered to buy me, I would get pissed and destructive too! beastie boy Sep 2019 #6

Monument (Plaque) is already in place PoliWrangler Sep 2019 #8

Thanks for sharing that Pluvious Sep 2019 #12

we continue to allow 87+ universities to support 260+ global warming-denying certainot Sep 2019 #10

cooling the gulf stream, causing a mini ice age in Europe, NA. nt yaesu Sep 2019 #11

As Al Gore tried to warn us not that long ago Pluvious Sep 2019 #13

Taking all of that weight from the ice off safeinOhio Sep 2019 #14

Maybe its that Greenland's skin is crawling from the possibility that Trump will buy it LiberalLovinLug Sep 2019 #15

Spent one year at Thule Air Base, Greenland. djacq Sep 2019 #16

The Monument was erected years ago... It's called a Seed Vault... MartyTheGreek Sep 2019 #18

We have screwed the pooch bigtime. lpbk2713 Sep 2019 #20

it's a tipping point. it's the feedback loop EveHammond13 Sep 2019 #22

We should support kids striking about climate change today Land Shark Sep 2019 #24