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Originally Posted by Badmutha
And once again--the only scientific consensus is that we have had a climate change of ONE MASSIVE WORLD ENDING DEGREE! The consensus stops there--liberalism and tree huggers have distorted everything since.
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Not at all & as usual you have no clue.
Myth...
The increase in global temperature over the last 100 years was only about 1 degree F, and if the temperature goes up a similar amount in the next 100 years, it's no big deal.
Fact...
It is true that the measured increase in global average temperature over the last century was about 1 degree F. But only if manmade greenhouse gas emissions completely stopped immediately would the temperature increase over the next century be limited to 1 degree F. Scientists estimate that the average global temperature increase for the 21st century will be anywhere from 2.5 to 10.4 degrees F, based on the current trends in greenhouse gas output. But even a rise of 2.5 to 10.4 degrees seems like it would be within tolerable limits, right? After all, outdoor temperatures swing much more than that from winter to summer.
Sorry, but that big bubble of positive thinking goes "pop" as soon as we realize that the average temperature during the last Ice Age was only 5-9 degrees colder than today's temperatures. During this period, the northeast United States was covered by more than 3,000 feet of ice.
In the last 10,000 years, humans have prospered, partly due to a long-term period of climatic stability—the Earth's average temperature hasn't varied by more than 1.8°F (1.0°C). Temperature increases of 2.5-10.4 degrees are far beyond the norm and will put us into uncharted territory. The climate in 2100 could be as drastically different from our climate today as the Ice Age was.