Current Events > What's REALLY gonna happen because of global warming?

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Its hotter, big deal.
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Nothing.
it's just a hoax. Like giraffes being real.
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Probably nothing. We'll be dead anyway. Who cares.
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Two main direct effects: 1) Extreme weather events become more common and are stronger on average. 2) Coastal areas have increased risks of flooding.

Pretty much all other predictions are consequences of those two.

Edit: oops, and one more: increased ocean acidification.

Our coastal houses will flood. But we can just sell them.
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Coastal areas will see substantially more flooding.

People in second/third world countries will likely be susceptible to more failed crops and famine. And unlike us they can't just throw money at problems.

well outside of the bubble of cushy first world countries the effects of global warming are already very real and very shitty

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The impacts are too many to list. Here's one that's probably not thought of much:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/15/18213988/chronic-kidney-disease-climate-change

In the 1990s, health officials noticed that chronic kidney disease was on the rise in Central America. An epidemic seemed to be raging among farmworkers who toiled in sugarcane fields on the Pacific Coast in El Salvador and Costa Rica one of the hottest areas in the region. To date, more than 20,000 people have died in the epidemic, and thousands of others have had to go on kidney dialysis to survive.

Researchers are now coming together around a hypothesis about whats driving a little-appreciated epidemic, known as Mesoamerican nephropathy.

One main suspect: global warming. It has become a leading hypothesis to explain not just Mesoamerican nephropathy but a similar uptick in chronic kidney disease in India and Southeast Asia. The victims could be called climate canaries.

Roberto Lucchini, an environmental and public health professor at Mount Sinai whos been studying the phenomenon, calls this the first epidemic thats directly attributable to climate change. It was not recognized before the rise in temperatures, he said, and the epidemic of these cases is currently observed in the countries that are more affected by [global warming] in the last decades, from Central America to India and Southeast Asia.

The epidemic might also be happening closer to home. Recent studies focused on California and Florida suggest the disease may already be afflicting people who work outdoors in the southern US too.

The basic idea: When people are exposed to long stretches of extreme heat, they sweat more. If they dont rehydrate, or dont have access to clean drinking water, the kidneys, which are supposed to filter waste and regulate fluid in the body, get stressed. Over time, that stress can lead to kidney stones and chronic damage.

The hypothesis is that weeks and months of sustained, acute kidney injury [due to heat exposure] could potentially destroy the kidneys ability to function, said Linda McCauley, dean of the nursing school at Emory University, who has been studying kidney failure among farmworkers in Florida.

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Countries like Bangladesh (especially since they're already having issues) and a bunch of island nations are fucked, it'll cause the largest refugee crisis in history.

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Crashing biodiversity. Like, 50% of all species of life already gone. Entire Ecosystems destroyed in a matter of decades.

Toxic algae blooms everywhere, which is already happening

Basically we're replacing forests with poison gas swamps.
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Global warming is happening because your Aunt Rosie can't put down the chipotle.
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It's the biggest challenge homosapiens have ever faced, yet even a child knows the solution - we have to cut our greenhouse gas emissions.

But arent we gonna have another ice age anyway?
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All the ice cream gonna melt
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ArchiePeck posted...

It's the biggest challenge homosapiens have ever faced, yet even a child knows the solution - we have to cut our greenhouse gas emissions.

That's no longer sufficient, but it's likely a necessary step.