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There is a scientific consensus that climate is changing that it is heating up. After that it becomes more and more speculative. There is not scientific consens

There is a scientific consensus that climate is changing that it is heating up. After that it becomes more and more speculative. There is not scientific consensus that we are all doomed or even close to being doomed. There is a higher risk of zero that it will be cataclysmis but so is there of an astroid hitting earth and a supernova wiping us all out. But it's mostly speculation and this conversation would be much more useful also for future generation if we didn't as we see in this thread here completely panic at every sensationalist headline and start asking ourselves some more constructive questions. Again give me a concrete scientifically demonstrated consequence of those issues that we don't know how to deal with. I have asked my times in this thread yet all I got back was downvotes. Doesn't that tell you something? We will always have to deal with nature whether, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, floods, water rising some places and disappearing other places. Sahara used to be green. Lets' stop panicking and start rationalizing.

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
So if you look at the list of consequences on a page like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Human_health_outcomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Human_health_ou..., you don't see any concerns? And could you please define "don't know how to deal with" - what are the indicators that we should start to deal with something, and what is a successful example of "dealing with"? In the case of a catastrophe, what defines a failure and success for you?
- ThomPete 8y ago
  No. These are things that humans have always had to deal with and we are much better at dealing with them today. The list of deaths related to extreme weather is down not up. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/resources/weather_fatalities.pdf http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/resources/weather_fatali... With don't know how to deal with it i mean show me something that we can't deal with. Drought, flood, etc. but which is also demonstrated to happen not just speculated can happen. We can't solve problems we can't see. We have to solve the problems we can see and do that in a way that doesn't just throw everything out

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago

So if you look at the list of consequences on a page like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Human_health_outcomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#Human_health_ou..., you don't see any concerns? And could you please define "don't know how to deal with" - what are the indicators that we should start to deal with something, and what is a successful example of "dealing with"? In the case of a catastrophe, what defines a failure and success for you?

ThomPete 8y ago
No. These are things that humans have always had to deal with and we are much better at dealing with them today. The list of deaths related to extreme weather is down not up. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/resources/weather_fatalities.pdf http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/resources/weather_fatali... With don't know how to deal with it i mean show me something that we can't deal with. Drought, flood, etc. but which is also demonstrated to happen not just speculated can happen. We can't solve problems we can't see. We have to solve the problems we can see and do that in a way that doesn't just throw everything out