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>>onnnon+(OP)
I no longer worry. I'm extremely pessimistic about the impending climate change. I believe Sabine isn't pessimistic enough about what to anticipate. Consider the tundra methane emissions and the explosive release of methane-hydrates from the oceans, along with water vapor, a potent greenhouse gas. The disaster looming over all ecosystems (a mass extinction event) that will happen in decades and the doom-phase could last for 200,000 years. The chances of humanity surviving are incredibly slim, IMO. We can't colonize Greenland or Antarctica due to the lack of fertile soil, and it would take thousands of years to develop it. Without saying so, we don't have this amount of time.

>>pk-pro+0K1
I am glad that I survived oil outage, sour rain, the Ozone hole, mass famine because of overpopulation. All in a lifetime. I must have had sheer luck.

>>jhoech+sT1
Recently I survived covid exponential deaths apocalypse and Al Gore's sea levels rising in 2016.

>>slaw+m02
Covid was no joke, 3 million people died despite the entire world grinding to a halt and hiding in their houses for months. Sea levels are up 10 cm since Gore was VP and it's accelerating.

>>moffka+h32
61 milion people died in 2023 with and without covid. Al Gore predicted 20ft by 2016 not 10cm.

>>slaw+D62
> Al Gore predicted

I see no predictions by him.

What I do see are examples of him selectively quoting other people and that he was in turn selectively quoted himself.

This is also why you shouldn't rely on politicians for anything.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/

>>ben_w+0a2
Al Gore got Nobel prize for PowerPoint presentation.

>>slaw+mk2
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize."

Which was extra ironic, given Kissinger reportedly said to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin "I figure it like Groucho Marx said 'any club that took him in he would not want to join'. I would say that anything Lê Đức Thọ is eligible for, there must be something wrong with it." while Lê Đức Thọ declined the prize, on grounds that such "bourgeois sentimentalities" were not for him and that the Paris Peace Accords (for which he and Kissinger had been awarded the prize) were not being adhered to in full.