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Environment & Energy

F4lconF16

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1. Yup.

Reply to polly7 (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2015, 01:36 PM

May 2015

I will do my best to change things in the meantime, but I'm pretty sure we're screwed. This is not going to be pleasant. We're heading for (are almost already) another mass extinction event. This may take a while, but just wait hundreds of years into the future when so many of these large-timescale things start kicking in. Like, for instance, the heat that is trapped by ocean currents and that will take often over thousands of years before it will all be dumped into our atmosphere again.

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The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit [View all] polly7 May 2015 OP

Yup. F4lconF16 May 2015 #1

The mass extinction event is happening all around us NOW. hunter May 2015 #17

130 views and 3 recs? F4lconF16 May 2015 #2

People simple don't want to look at the truth of this.... daleanime May 2015 #10

K & R, will read the underlying article later dreamnightwind May 2015 #3

I've been saying this for a decade now. We're screwed, blewed and tattooed. GliderGuider May 2015 #4

+1000 nt Mojorabbit May 2015 #5

You and me both. Only with a crash program can we even begin to ameliorate the Nay May 2015 #6

I think it's already too late. tclambert May 2015 #8

Well, the oil companies want to make that extra penny in profit. tclambert May 2015 #7

My grown sons know what's coming. dixiegrrrrl May 2015 #11

I am very grateful that I do not have children, truebluegreen May 2015 #12

I want children. F4lconF16 May 2015 #18

Over-react much? truebluegreen May 2015 #27

Doesn't make sense to me either. dixiegrrrrl May 2015 #25

Yes. I fear we have "made our beds," as it were. truebluegreen May 2015 #28

The political will is the key. Enthusiast May 2015 #32

kick, kick, kick.... daleanime May 2015 #9

here's why those in power aren't worried enough to do anything: Voice for Peace May 2015 #13

You are right, and those poorest regions do not have a voice, so polly7 May 2015 #15

and THAT's the even WORSE awful truth nobody wants to hear. Voice for Peace May 2015 #19

I believe we will hear more than a whimper dixiegrrrrl May 2015 #29

They already are, and have been for years. polly7 May 2015 #31

K & R +++++++++++ Thespian2 May 2015 #14

They WANT a mass extinction of what they consider to be "useless eaters". Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #21

+1 LiberalLoner May 2015 #26

The sick fact is that some people make money off of disruptions n2doc May 2015 #16

“tilted against many of the world’s poorest regions,” Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #20

And the IPCC models do not include all sources of global warming, only man made CO2. mackdaddy May 2015 #22

We've passed the tipping point. That's the elephant in the room no one speaks about. Dems to Win May 2015 #23

Humanity is already on the slippery slope toward extinction. Binkie The Clown May 2015 #24

One of my favorite jokes on this topic - "Political Leadership" hatrack May 2015 #30