ChrisMayLA6 ,
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Seawater intrusion below glaciers may be reaching a tipping point (or have even passed it) suggesting we could be about to see a significant sea level rise.

Aha, say the sceptics, this is 'may' and 'could'... we want the facts.

The problem is that approach to the climate is what has got us where we are... climate scientists have been warning us for years, and their estimates/fears have been largely borne out, the sceptics claims, not so much!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/newly-identified-tipping-point-for-ice-sheets-could-mean-greater-sea-level-rise

Npars01 ,
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christineburns ,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @Npars01 The tipping point that leads to our collapse in numbers may in all probability be one that nobody noticed until it had tipped, and by then it will be too late to do anything about.

Npars01 ,
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@christineburns @ChrisMayLA6

That's the issue with any rapid change.

Singularities often produce unknowable consequences until its too late.

Zoonotic pandemics are just one example of an unexamined consequence of fossil fuel global warming.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/climate-crisis-future-pandemics-zoonotic-spillover

https://www.cfr.org/article/perilous-pathogens-how-climate-change-increasing-threat-diseases

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Singularity_(systems_theory)&diffonly=true
Example:
The industrial revolution destroyed village life in Europe. Artisanal skills vanished. Cheesemaking. Horse husbandry. Mass species loss. Social cohesion.

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