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by zackees 1919 days ago
Going to chime in here - ice ages cause extinctions, not warm ages.

We are in the knifes edge of too cold. A little extra green house gas to buffer out the ice age is a good thing.

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The problem is the millions to billions of people who are living in areas that will become virtually uninhabitable due to temperature changes and sea level rise. The first way climate change will seriously negatively impact humanity is through geopolitical conflict and a massive refugee crisis.
Yet that hasn’t happened despite all the warnings in the media for 3 decades of my life and no significant rise in sea level in my lifetime.

The alarmism is more likely propaganda than legitimate scientific inquiry.

What sea level rise would be significant to you?

Its happening and accelerating: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

If you need something visual look at the Miami type floods.

Also consider this is an issue that needs to be planned across hundreds of years. It might be slow but we dont move a city like NY in a decade.

Look at this: https://sealevelrise.org/states/new-york/#:~:text=The%20sea%....

Genuinely, do you feel these links are alarmism and propaganda?

Change causes extinctions. If the temperature suddenly swings down, things die. If it subsequently swings back up, do they come back? No! More things die.