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Originally posted by PurpleXVI:
Normally, nature would likely just adjust to such an event, but considering all of the other destabilizing we've done, it might not be as easy for it. We've killed off a lot of species and destroyed a lot of their habitat, there may no longer be ones around to fill the new niches created in the ecosystem.
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Oh, nature will make it. Nature managed to survive whatever killed the dinosaurs. There will always be ants.
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Posted by robertthebard:
The fact is that we have been in a warming state for thousands of years, perhaps 10's of thousands.
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There is no real proof, but as far as I am familiar with the current theories, the Earth has been steadily warming since the last ice age ended some 20 000 years ago. We are currently in a temporary warm phase, a few degrees Celsius below what we had before the last ice age, and in another 20 000 years the ice caps will have spread again. After that, we'll have a proper warm period again.
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Posted by robertthebard:
Why scare us, and our children, with "science" that says in 100 years, we will have different coasts, water levels will rise xx feet, and Florida will be gone.
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Actually, that might happen anyway. If the Antarctic ice cap melts, the ocean
will rise. And the current trend seems to be melting. We had different coast lines during the last ice age, and they can change further.