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We have had ~8" of sea level rise, a 30% increase in acidity of the ocean, ~4% more evaporation which leads to increased rainfall which has lead to a lot of flooding, droughts are intensifying, more and larger wildfires, crop failures due to drought and due to too warm winters and/or earlier spring, about 4:1 ratio of record high temperatures vs record lows (when the normal was 1:1), Arctic ice that is rapidly decreasing, and will likely go away during the summer within the next decade - this in turn is having a strong effect on the jet stream, changing the typical weather patterns. The so-called "perma frost" is melting, and releasing huge amounts of both methane and carbon dioxide. Many species are severely threatened - we are in the midst of a die-off similar to or more rapid than those in the past. Glaciers all over the world are shrinking quickly, and land based ice sheets are melting much more rapidly than they were just a few decades ago.
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