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Chilean scientists study climate change at 'end of the world'

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Pollution (toxic, sewage, garbage, air) is hurting the environment more than global warming.

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It's both crashtestdummy. It's both and civilization is in big trouble.

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@ArtistAtLarge

It's both crashtestdummy. It's both and civilization is in big trouble.

Please name the instances where global warming has severely affected humans. I'd like to hear it. Historically, the earth had much higher higher temperatures and C02 levels (2000s ppm historically and earth is currently at 400ppm of C02). Humans and fossil fuels did not exist at those levels of historic higher temperatures and higher C02 levels.

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Please name the instances where global warming has severely affected humans.

How about right now in British Colombia in Canada, where they have had gasoline restrictions and supply line issues for the past two months, as a direct result of global "warming" (why are you still using outdated terms by the way? Is all your knowledge outdated by decades). They had sever heat in the summer, with the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, which cooked the land so that later on in the year the soil was too dry to soak up the heavy rains, resulting in massive flooding, that literally (not figuratively) isolated Vancouver from the rest of Canada by trucks?

Is that severe enough for you? If not, you'll need to define what you consider to be severe, so that we can determine if you're discussing the real world, or some fantasy delusion wherein climate change doesn't exist.

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Please name the instances where global warming has severely affected humans. 

Wild fires the last two summers in the western US and British Columbia, and the one just a few days ago north of Denver. This is the first time in recorded history that no snow fell in Denver or Boulder basically the whole month of December. In fact I think it is the first time in recorded history no snow fell in Denver before December. Towns were burned to the ground in BC, Washington State and California. Thousands of homes were destroyed. Scores were killed when fires surrounded towns faster than residents could escape.

Jakarta suffers huge floods due to rising seas, to the point where some are beginning to question its continued viability as a city. Some coastal cities in the US now suffer flooding during spring tides that haven't in the past due to rising sea levels. Coastal cities in Florida, South Carolina and California I know have this problem.

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Here is another example:

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/sea-level-rise-is-making-bangladesh-s-water-undrinkable

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@Strangerland @Desert Tortoise

I use global warming because that is the metric that the climate change activists highlight the most. They are creating tons of regulation and restraints based on trying to combat the uptick in global temperatures and say the uptick in global temperatures is causing all the problems. There is no proof that humans have caused the uptick in global temperatures and there no proof that humans can change/control climate, combat rising oceans, or natural disasters if they do decrease C02. It is all theories.

Even NASA website with many of the their science organizations that support global warming says that humans are "extremely likely" to have caused global warming. "Extremely likey" is not 100% proof. "Extremely likely" is a theory. FYI: In the past 50 years, climate change doomsday scientists have been wrong 50/50 times with their predictions from ice ages to world starvation to world droughts, etc. None of their predictions have come true.

Your examples are still just weather incidences. Historically, there has been extreme swings in weather and major catastrophes around the world. The weather is not static. Globally there has been just as many problems created from cold weather incidences. Texas had a major power crisis because of freezing temperatures. I live in California, historically there has been extreme bouts of drought as far as records and research has taken the data. You say "Coastal cities in Florida, South Carolina and California I know have this problem of rising sea levels" Then why have climate change activists, Obama, Biden, Al Gore, Pelosi all bought multi-million dollar homes on the ocean in recent years?

Also, historically oceans were much higher than they are now. California was once covered in ocean water. "The California San Joaquin Valley began to form about 66 million years ago during the early Paleocene era. Broad fluctuations in the sea level caused various areas of the valley to be flooded with ocean water for the next 60 million years."

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