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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by mathattack on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:35PM (#6382971)
"It dwarfs all other problems -- Syria, terrorism, the NSA, class and economic disparity, all of them."

I don't know enough about climate science to be fully informed about impact, but this I know... A true carbon tax would be of such enormous magnitude, that it would compare with issues like class disparity. * If the pessimists are true, the deaths involved from climate change will draw Syria plus 9/11 plus many other wars.

* - On a side note, if done on a revenue neutral basis, it could be used to lower taxes for everyone, and provide relief for people who live a lower-carbon lifestyle.

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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by masklinn on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:38PM (#6382987)
If the pessimists are correct, death due to climate changes will be on the scale of world wars.
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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by kbutler on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:10PM (#6383782)
If the pessimists are correct, death due to climage changes will be a mass extinction like the end of the Cretaceous period.
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Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn by CamperBob2 on Saturday September 14, 2013 @12:14AM (#6384633)
Fortunately they've never been correct in the history of recorded civilization.
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