On the bright side, we won’t be around for it….
[sciencealert.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The study presumes an increase of a "few dozen degrees" before this catastrophe occurs. Why not say 36 degrees? Anything that starts with "few" sounds smaller? They don't specify C or F. Since 99 percent of us use C, that's something over 50 degrees F. Is it any surprise that a warm day hitting 140 F is going to kind of suck?
I hope we can find ways to avoid hellish increases. Wind, solar, mass transit, vegetarianism. Maybe a solar shield?
Scientists have been saying we're near or over the tipping point since 1990 at least and few people listened. More are listening now. I hope we find a way out.
This article leans on sensationalism a lot.
CallMeDave
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Dec 21, 2023
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If we haven’t reached the tipping point yet, we clearly are going to…..you can call that sensationalism, I call it reality……
When cities from Miami to Baltimore to New York to Boston sink, then this will "sink in". I'll probably be dead by then. I hope so, at least. I don't need to see that.
And that is not such a bad thing for the planet.
Mooolah
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Dec 20, 2023
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There was a time when I was a proponent of our existence. I’m no longer that naive fool. I’ve come to realize and accept that NO life forms are supposed to survive eternally. I’ve also come to realize just what a nasty species we are…..
I wonder about these things in other ways. As far as I know my eyes are normal in the sense they have been for years. I need glasses to read up close but otherwise my vision is fine. (No cat tracks.) Recently the sun is so bright at times as it comes through my car windows that I can hardly see. The visor helps but yesterday that did not work and I was sun blinded to a point of making a turn and taking another route to where I was going. I find this strange as I leave for work at the same time and it was only this bad once so far.
DenoPenno
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Dec 20, 2023
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Have you been tested for cataracts? 
Cataracts will cause issues with sensitivity to light. Before my surgery driving at night was a nightmare because of the glare from other light sources…..
Maybe that’s what you were getting at when you said no Cat Tracks, lol….
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