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And yet, everything is fine.

That's like being in a car driving towards a wall and saying "see, everything is fine".

The moment climate change affects you personally will be already too late to do anything about it.

Right. But what if you've been told that wall is in ten feet, but you go eleven feet and hit nothing. Then you're told, no just three more feet and you'll hit the wall and you go four and hit nothing.

Then your told, well it's less of a wall and more of a curb and it's in five feet. You go ten feet and still hit nothing.

I guess some people will always be Charle Brown.

When the wall was ten feet away, the wall was "nothing changes", ca 0° warming. Then the wall was 1° warming, then 1.5°, ... We're still accelerating towards 3-5° warming. Coral reefs for example are already doomed, there is nothing we can do to save them. A degree or two more and highly populated areas will become either too hot to live or too dry for agriculture. Then the wars for water and land start.

Coral reefs are fine. In fact, the great barrier reef has made a significant comeback.

And yes, cities get hotter and dryer as they make ever more blacktop and dump all their rain water into the ocean.

No, coral reefs are not fine. Rising water temperature will kill coral over the next decades. We already emitted enough CO2 to raise temperatures beyond what coral can tolerate. The current state of the reef has nothing to do with it.

Says the Turkey before thanksgiving...

2027 isn't that far away. Would you like to bet we are still fine in 2027?

What observable deterioration would you bet on?

I 100% agree our goose is cooked someday, in probably another 1,000 years and for some other reason.

Fine as in trying the warm waters of the tropical beach Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station? Or fine as in the memorial of the country once known as the Netherlands?

We could bet on either of those outcomes by 2027. You pick which one. I'm good to bet up to 1k USD.

It's been 9 hours. I sense a lack of conviction.

4 hours for information to get here to the Belt and back at the speed of light. The logic of your bet is flawed.

- You lose you are supposed to pay me up to 1K of what will be of highly devalued currency on a crashed planet.

- You win you got a planet still running despite tearing it to pieces.

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