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Originally Posted by cgjackson222
Not sure if you bothered to actually read any of the links you cited, but each and every one of them is referring to the fact that if we don't drastically address climate change in the next 10 years, the world will have dire consequences. This is because of the fact that CO2 and methane exist for decades in the atmosphere, as discussed above.
So yes, inaction between 1989 and 1999 has put us on a trajectory to alter our planet in ways beyond our control. And here we are in 2023, having done relatively little about. Much of the inaction is because of people like yourself that seem to think climate change is humorous.
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You are cutting out the part where it is "beyond human control" in just 10 years and replacing it with a much softer argument that things will get a little worse over 10 years. If you read just the first few sentences and compare it to your rephrasing here, the difference is astounding.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control."
"Beyond human control", a recurring motif from the left, that we have just 10 years, not that it will get slightly worse in the next 10 years. Boy, that sure sounds completely different from your rephrasing! And I'm the one who can't read. The irony.
If X tells you in 1989 that Y is beyond fixing in just 10 years and produces terrible consequences, and then in 1999 they tell you that Y is beyond fixing in just 10 years and produces terrible consequences, and in 2009 they tell you Y is beyond fixing in just 10 years and produces terrible consequences, and in 2019 they tell you that Y is beyond fixing in just 10 years and produces terrible consequences, you wouldn't realize the hyperbole? You wouldn't question that? That would make sense to you? You wouldn't think that's a fear narrative? It would take incredible stupidity to not realize something has been overstated at the least.
Yes, those of us who can do basic math are killing the planet. I'll be at the same beach at the same coastline in 10 years while you're preaching that we have just another extended 10 years before the 1989 narrative comes to be. Can't wait for it.