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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Temperature has risen about 1 degree and seas about 1ft over the last 100 years, which is insanely rapid in geologic terms. It wasn't faster than we could adapt.
Temperature will rise about 1 degree and seas another foot in the next 100 years. Why would we be less capable of adapting given the technological advancements that will occur in the next 100 years? We're somehow going to get less proficient at adapting to various climates? That would only be true if we're cavemen relying on dumb animals to get too close to survive.
Costs exceeding global GDP is false on the face of it. Sure, setting the outdoor thermostat 1 degree cooler like it was 100 years ago might exceed GDP, but building structures in fire prone areas with fire resistance in mind doesn't increase the construction cost much. Not building in flood zones or in hurricane alley costs nothing. Building structures resilient to flooding and hurricanes costs more, but not double or more. Increasing crop yields aren't costing anything. We could tell primitive people to stop killing polar bears if we want a larger population of those useless things.
Where are the people who are going to die if they step foot outside? Seems like a good reason to move if being exposed to outdoor conditions momentarily poses an existential threat. They're obviously wealthy if they can afford 24/7 home care.
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* Your temperature predictions have already been exceeded in areas that will impact the entire planet.
* Sea level rise also.
* On the Atlantic coast, it costs $365,000 to move an existing home inland to higher ground.
* 70% of our building materials come from Canada and Mexico.
* Most people can't touch the current prices because they've been inflated by the destruction caused by fires, floods, hurricanes, atmospheric rivers, tornadoes, etc. all accelerating due to climate change.
* New Orleans has never recovered from Katrina.
* You might have noticed that California insurance companies were cancelling fire policies as their customers homes burnt to the ground.
* Some will have to walk away, defaulting on their mortgage payments, and property taxes, jeopardizing local government revenue / budgets. Municipal bond failures.
* The smartest guys in the room predict that climate 'costs' WILL exceed the entire global GDP at some point. The USA is already in trouble.
* Future 100-mph Santa Ana winds must be factored in to any reconstruction scenario. Atmospheric energy is only going to increase, and it's 'non-linear'.
* 'Future-proofing' all construction is currently a 'problem' with no 'solution.'
* Global food production is in decline. You need to disabuse yourself of any notion of a new, 'green revolution.' STEM can't keep up.
* If you followed 'climate', you'd know that the polar bear are just another 'canary in the coal mine.' It's the loss of sea ice that will kill billions.
* The loss of major river headwaters will kill billions more.
* If you ever read what I post you'd already know that Guatemalans are dropping dead at work, trying to get sugar to STARBUCKS. The heat-index is so high that they cannot remain hydrated, and fall over dead from renal failure. Same for some in Maricopa County, Arizona. Dallas Texas. Europe. Africa. They're not 'wealthy', already living on the margins.
* The monkeys of Kenya have already taken to 'caves' to escape the killer heat, but they'll all be extinct by 2030 as heat increases.