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We will see how things progress, won't we? Physics and chemistry don't wait to be verified beyond all doubt; or until all the skeptics are convinced.
Will average temperatures continue to rise?
Will the ocean level continue to rise?
Will the ocean continue to acidify (by absorbing carbon dioxide turning it into carbonic acid)?
Will the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica continue to thin?
Will Arctic ice cap continue to shrink?
Will we see more frequent intense storms?
Will droughts become normal (as they have in Australia)?
Will the world's glaciers retreat faster and faster?
Will weather patterns continue to fluctuate outside of the norm?
Will the tropical zone continue to expand?
Will there be more corral bleaching?
Will plankton continue to decline?
Will the fossil water aquifers be depleted?
Will the boreal forests continue to die off?
Will the tundra continue to melt, and release even more methane?
Will there be more climate driven migrations (as parts of East Africa, Bangladesh, and low elevation islands and deltas are having)?
Will there be more crop failures?
Will there be more jellyfish and algae blooms?
Will we see more and more wildfires caused by the increased droughts along with more lightning?
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Will we make the switch to renewable energy before we are forced to?
Will we go back to organic farming before we run out of oil and chemical fertilizers?
Will we turn out the cattle, pigs, and chickens onto natural pastures, or continue with factory farms that reduce calories 20:1?
Will superweeds outstrip our ability to poison them, or will we abandon monoculture?
Will we continue to strip away all the forests, and end up like Haiti, or will we reforest our land like South Korea?
Will we acknowledge our complete dependence on this Earth, and the interdependence of all life to maintain the delicate balance we have evolved into?
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