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Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by breakyerself on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @09:39AM (#20334824)
Kaiyou falls off a 10-story building. As he passes the sixth story, someone yells from the window, “How’s it going?” He yells back, “So far, so good!”
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by Kaiyou on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @09:45AM (#20334881)
This conversation is now 30 years old. Still, so far, so good.
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by mikepurvis on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @10:31AM (#20335516)
Well, that is the thing about hitting the ground— you can be milliseconds away and everything still looks fine. In a few decades, historians will be able to look back and identify the key events and turning points in all this. I suspect that the stuff we're seeing now will be eventually seen as part of the transition from "getting bad slowly" to "getting bad very quickly". But obviously it's hard to know without the full benefit of hindsight.
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by Kaiyou on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @10:59AM (#20335755)
I suspect it won't be earlier than in a few centuries.
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by serpix on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:49PM (#20336922)
from what is reported already happening, expect massive (hundreds of millions) climate refugees to really get going within the next five to ten years.
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by homonculus1 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:11PM (#20336504)
What data does your suspicion derive from?
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by Kaiyou on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:16AM (#20343259)
Because historians work on different time scales. Stuff from only a few decades ago is still politics, not history.
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by dTal on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:09AM (#20343958)
That's quite the non-sequitur. What relationship are you implying between this supposition and the scientific facts of climate change? Would your argument change if it were astronomers telling you an asteroid would hit in 5 years?
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by Kaiyou on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:59AM (#20344807)
I was replying to > In a few decades, historians will be able to look back

Historians don't look back only a few decades. That's still politics. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by dTal on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:53AM (#20345397)
My mistake, I thought we were still discussing climate change, not dropping into definitional pedantry.

Since we're into definitional pedantry, you're incorrect anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_history

Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by adrianN on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:03PM (#20336438)
All signs point to you being wrong.
Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar... by imtringued on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:15PM (#20336548)
Good riddance