“Oh, we’re all gonn’a die ... just not by climate change.”
Maybe so, but they promised New York City would be under water by now.
What a gyp!
Even if the East Coast (where I live by the way) is underwater, it won’t be the apocalypse. We know because it already happened.
In the Cretaceous Period the globe was 10 degrees hotter than it is now. The ice caps were completely gone.
Yes, some areas were flooded. But Antarctica and the Canadian Shield were lush and green—with trees and dinosaurs. Global temperatures were on average hotter but also had less wild swings, because the increased evaporation increased humidity, which moderates temperature.
We’ll lose islands and coastal regions. The Great Basin of the U.S. will be underwater, and in place of a desert we’ll get a shallow sea—fantastic for fishing.
It’ll be...different. That’s all. Not the end of the world.