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12. Water and food scarcity, caused by Global Warming (great droughts) will cause mass human die-offs

Tue Aug 27, 2013, 09:32 AM

Aug 2013

in our lifetimes. I don't doubt that for a nano-second.

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Higher CO2 Harming All Marine Life From Corals and Clams to Fish (Researchers) [View all] Hissyspit Aug 2013 OP

I give us 17 more years until mass human die-offs begin. AAO Aug 2013 #3

Nah, I doubt THAT. AverageJoe90 Aug 2013 #9

The whole set of converging crises are starting to lock together now. GliderGuider Aug 2013 #14

Bees are the possibility I was thinking of, for sure. GliderGuider Aug 2013 #22

And all this Karma has broken in the last 20 years or so... AAO Aug 2013 #23

Regarding intelligence... GliderGuider Aug 2013 #27

Acidification has already hurt oyster farms in Oregon. WHEN CRABS ROAR Aug 2013 #4

It mentions extinctions 55 million years ago, caseymoz Aug 2013 #5

We need to know how and why life survived then. caseymoz Aug 2013 #8

Palms already grow in Scotland and Alaska NickB79 Aug 2013 #11

Okay, but these were NOT the kind of palms I was referring to. AverageJoe90 Aug 2013 #17

I don't know. caseymoz Aug 2013 #13

It's really hard for ME, personally, to explain..... AverageJoe90 Aug 2013 #16

But all the average forecasts I've heard caseymoz Aug 2013 #18

In all honesty, is that really such a bad thing? AverageJoe90 Aug 2013 #26

Oh yeah, those Canadian and Siberian breadbaskets NickB79 Aug 2013 #20

Tell that to the guy who originally brought it up, not me. n/t AverageJoe90 Aug 2013 #25

"The Perfect Storm" keeps building. Uncle Joe Aug 2013 #15