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# 14213 byCombs, Mike on Feb. 13, 2001, 9:34 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
What kind of disaster are you talking about. For example: 1993 we had
record cold all over the planet. 1997 flooding in the Mississippi
river created a great lake for about 6 weeks. There were more
hurricanes in the 1990s then in the previous two decades. More
tornadoes were reported and reported in places where tornadoes are not
common.
won't shrug off? I don't think you would get universal acknowledgement from climatologists that these events were all caused by global warming. I think it would take that, and the events being sudden and catastrophic before humanity would be particularly united in an effort to reverse the situation. As for what I was thinking of, it's been theorized that melting in Antarctica might result in the sudden collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf, which might raise ocean levels much more precipitously than what we'll otherwise get by gradual melting.
Regards,
Mike Combs