Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar...
by Kaiyou on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @10:59AM
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I suspect it won't be earlier than in a few centuries.
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Re:Antarctic sea ice – rapid decreases, reduced to lowest ar...
by serpix on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:49PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Good riddance