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Environment & Energy

Blue Shoes

(220 posts)

4. Theres no disagreement on long term issues.

Reply to NickB79 (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 06:31 PM

Dec 2016

Correct me if I'm wrong but were only disagreeing on the decade we are discussing. My post was on short to medium term effects (~75yrs) which have an order of magnitude fewer effects then the 100yr mark. The estimates I have seen for 75yrs is about ~5-6ft sea level rise, increasing to ~9-10 at 100yrs.

But these estimates assume we will continue to be completely impotent on the effects of global warming, which to be dismally grim isn't that unlikely.

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When societal collapse hits in full force, we'll see a lot of city-states emerge NickB79 Dec 2016 #1

Not quite so fast. Blue Shoes Dec 2016 #2

We do not have nearly enough capital or resources for what's coming in this century NickB79 Dec 2016 #3

Theres no disagreement on long term issues. Blue Shoes Dec 2016 #4

The "pledge" is useless and meaningless and is sure to fail. NNadir Dec 2016 #5