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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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Reply to Random Boomer (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 15, 2021, 09:34 PM

Mar 2021

We've passed the point where the US Southwest is going to be habitable. Hard truth, but truth nonetheless. The warming already locked in, and the rapidly escalating positive feedbacks we're now seeing, make the prospect of staying under 2C almost impossible. And the perma-drought we're seeing now is with only 1.1C of warming. At 2C the region will be devastated.

The Pacific Northwest, Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and New England states will be deluged with desperate climate refugees in 20-30 years. Don't wait until that point.

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