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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: POKERSAM who wrote (893208)10/12/2015 12:47:39 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1577194
 
"This earth is extremely resilient. It will be just fine"

I have no doubt. Mankind, however, won't be.

"I would like some idea of when it will be too late."

It's already too late to avoid consequences. Now it's a matter of keeping the damage to a minimum.

As early as 1977, one of Exxon’s senior scientists warned a gathering of oilmen of a “general scientific agreement” that the burning of fossil fuels was influencing the climate. A year later, he had updated his assessment, warning that “present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to 10 years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical.”

nytimes.com

"in reality it may not be warming at all."
There is your reality, and there is the planet's reality.

Data Source: NASA GISS - GHCN-v3 1880-09/2015 + SST: ERSST v4 1880-09/2015
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