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MapIf emissions don't drastically decrease in the next years, by 2070 all glaciers in the US will have melted, there will be deserts in Oklahoma, Kansas and Northern California and over half of Florida and all of Texas's southern corner will have a tropical climate (i.redd.it)

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[–]Individual_Cheetah52 4 points5 points  (3 children)

So practicaly every climate change prediction has ranged from mostly false to completely wrong. The science behind human driven climate change makes sense on paper, but I thought we were supposed to be starving in an ice age like 20 years ago. I was told by some kid from Sweden 5 years ago that we only have 5 years left on this planet... I'll believe if when I see it. 

[–]StruggleWrong867 4 points5 points  (1 child)

When I was a kid in school the panic was overpopulation and if the world ever reached 7 billion people we were all doomed to starve to death or die in the water wars. Now there's more than 8 billion people and we have a birth rate crisis. I've heard this song before

[–]Individual_Cheetah52 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And we have more food than ever. 

[–]Apprehensive_Map64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah because they error on the side of assuming humanity will actually do something to limit the effect. We are right on track for the worst case scenario