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Global Warming could be worse than we thought-- paper from Science

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In a world where by all measures we are doing better than in any other period of human history, across the board, localized events like this do not constitute a catastrophe. And by all accounts the "cure" would be far worse financially on impoverished nations than the supposed "disease". Imo this is more leftist political propaganda. Is the climate changing? Well considering the fact that the geologic record indicates our climate makes drastic swings with some regularity then climate change should be no surprise to anyone. Should we adapt to it? By all means, that is why we are where we are in the first place, our ability to adapt. Should we always be on the lookout for more efficient and less harmful ways to power our world? Damn straight. Should we enact drastic and demonstrably harmful measures in the short-term that may or may not have an effect on a situation that may or may not really be a problem? Hell no.

In my mind the argument has never been a fix. We just need to be able to slow it down in order to adapt to it more easily. While a local catastrophe like the Tahoe region may not be taken as globally damaging, when added with rising sea levels, reduced precipitation in arid areas, and other things like agricultural regions shifting, this constitutes a global disaster of catastrophic levels. This could very well be the defining economic crisis of our time. The climate refugees displaced from rising sea levels alone would be far more than any war, and that is super costly.

You might come back and say that is leftist propoganda, but the real question is, how are we going to pay for it?
 
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