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Re:Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn by vlovich123 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:25PM (#27987565)
It will happen much more quickly than people realize since the totality of what I’ve read seems to be “our models about it are too conservative”. The big question will be whether there’s a very significant impact to this in the western world. We’ll feel secondary effects and coastline habitability will shift, but I suspect the point where we see it directly in the west is when the entire world is in turmoil. Even still, there will be people here talking about illegal immigration rather than what causing that.
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Re:Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn by m4x on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:31PM (#27988591)
The flooding, drought, heatwaves and wildfires in the US and Europe are significant impacts on the western world. That's happening right now. There's no question at this point about whether Western and developed countries are going to be hit hard.
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Re:Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn by vlovich123 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:03AM (#27995066)
Those impacts can be dismissed or chalked up to just a mild worsening of existing trends. Additionally, these issues are generally weathered relatively well by the impacted communities and insurance helps them rebuild/relocate.

That is a very different experience from going through something like the Arab spring or the Syrian civil war if they were indeed the result of fault lines cracking under the weight of global warming.

The difference is in one model you live through a traumatic experience but society is largely there to help you through and the broader society doesn’t really share your pain. In the other model society falls apart.

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Re:Climate tipping points are now imminent, scientists warn by johnchristopher on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:51PM (#28030423)
> Those impacts can be dismissed or chalked up to just a mild worsening of existing trends. Additionally, these issues are generally weathered relatively well by the impacted communities and insurance helps them rebuild/relocate.

And how many times per decade (per year ?) can it be weathered ?

We got lucky in Western Europe with the recent flood. What when it happens in December or January next time ?

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