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To: IC720 who wrote (1154636)	8/4/2019 7:11:30 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1574711

"Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang made a wild claim without any evidence whatsoever that “we’re too late” in addressing climate change." I've been saying that it's too late to keep the increase to 1.5 degrees since the day that became the IPCC goal. = "Yang even said that people need to be evacuated to higher ground immediately." Already happening. Small Towns, Big Flood Waters - Science and Climate - Climate Change May 15, 2019 - Climate change and atmospheric rivers are flooding people's homes and devastating communities. Entire towns are moving to escape rising waters, which is called managed retreat. = Developing a Managed Retreat Toolkit - Georgetown Climate Center georgetownclimate.org Developing a Managed Retreat Toolkit. March 26, 2019. Given the growing threat of sea-level rise and the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, . = "Yang admitted that the U.S. is responsible for only 15% of total global emissions." We're responsible for solving 100% of the problems it creates in the US. Just looking at all the great crops. #NoPlant19 pic.twitter.com/7IOPNt4Ylk — Michael morgan (@mkemo78) August 1, 2019 = “This is going to be a tough truth but we are too late,” Yang said. “We are 10 years too late.” It was prolly already too late to avoid damage when Gore's movie came out. Now the idea is to keep the temperature change as small as possible. "So since we will all die in 12 years" Here's the bad news; we aren't all gonna die in 12 years, so you can't use that as a Get-out-of-jail-free card.