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Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by lisper on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:15AM (#28086074)
> this is necessarily going to happen gradually

That depends on what you mean by "gradually". Climate is a non-linear system. It can change radically in a very small number of years. Within a single generation, for example, much of the world's current farmland could become desert. That is going to be very hard to adapt to.

Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by jacquesm on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:24PM (#28092907)
> That is going to be very hard to adapt to.

If that comes to pass I hope I won't be alive to see it, but I think 'hard to adapt to' is putting it very mildly. You're talking about war and famine on a scale that the world has not seen before.

Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by lisper on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:32PM (#28092993)
Yes. That's exactly right. I think even the people who worry about climate change don't fully appreciate how grim the situation is, and how fast things are going to get really, really bad, a small number of decades tops. If you haven't already, look up "blue ocean event."