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Re:February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' ... by wtbob on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:29AM (#11282416)
> > So by saying that we only have 10 or 15 or 30 years more before we all die as a species, because of what we did to the Earth is non-sense.

> Who specifically is saying this?

In this thread, madaxe_again: 'Our extinction is coming, and the only tragedy is all the other life we'll take with us.'

> I haven’t seen these supposed pessimists’ reports from 1950 predicting “doomsday” by 2000.

The so-called 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' has been predicting Doomsday since 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

My prediction? In twenty years we'll look back on global warming like we do on D&D suicides, satanic ritual abuse and militias: just another instance of mass hysteria.

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Re:February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' ... by lbebber on Monday March 14, 2016 @09:03AM (#11282591)
- madaxe_again said that "our extinction is coming", not that it would happen within 30 years - nobody is, I believe, saying that.

- The doomsday clock thing wasn't unfounded paranoia, there was real danger of nuclear war in the 1950's.

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Re:February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' ... by Oletros on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:02AM (#11282920)
> In twenty years we'll look back on global warming like we do on D&D suicides, satanic ritual abuse and militias: just another instance of mass hysteria.

Then, are you saying that there is no climate change and temperatures are not raising?

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Re:February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' ... by feketegy on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @05:26AM (#11288409)
You're missing the point, it's not that the world will end within 30 years, although I believe some people truly believe that.

Of course climate change is real; my point was that people tend to overreact to it. They don't see that new technologies and especially new policies are coming up daily just to fight climate change.

Technology is not stagnant in this area, just as how it wasn't stagnant in the 50s 60s 70s 80s etc.

People always come up with new ideas and will adapt to changes.

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Re:February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' ... by Oletros on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:56PM (#11291616)
Nop, I'm not missing any point, D&D has been compared to climate change. That comparison can be only done if someone thinks that climate change is not real or it is not a problem.

> Of course climate change is real; my point was that people tend to overreact to it.

How is people overreacting?

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Re:February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' ... by Kurtz79 on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:52AM (#11282539)
"Who specifically is saying this?" "In this thread, madaxe_again"

He probably meant which scientist (s), not "which random guy on the internet".

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