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22 Devastating Effects Of Climate Change
Business Insider ^ | June 11, 2014 | by LESLIE BAEHR

Posted on 06/11/2014 2:59:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Major negative effects of climate change are here now and they're only getting worse. We've gathered some notable effects of climate change below.

1. Climate change will be insanely expensive.

2. Hundreds of millions of people may be displaced by 2050.

3. Dengue and malaria could spread in the U.S.

4. Western wildfires could burn up to eight times as much land by 2100.

5. An additional 8% of the world population will experience water scarcity by 2100.

6. Hurricanes could become up to 11% more intense and 20% wetter by 2100.

7. Four times as many New Yorkers could live in areas that flood by 2050.

8. Millions of people and trillions in assets are at risk in coastal cities.

9. 136 of the world's most historic places could be in jeopardy.

10. Global wheat and maize yields are already beginning to decline.

11. Some small island nations could be destroyed.

12. 100% of reefs may be at risk of extinction by 2050.

13. Within 300 years, 88% of New Orleans could be underwater.

14. Increasing droughts will make the driest regions even drier.

15. 63% of major wine regions could be jeopardized by 2050.

16. Some reptiles species could turn mostly female, potentially leading to their extinction.

17. Atlanta and New York could see twice as many days of thunderstorms a year by 2100 from the 1962 to 1989 average.

18. Many countries are losing their main dry season water source.

19. Air Pollution in California could created a serious public health hazard.

20. Equatorial regions and parts of the Antarctic will see up to a 50% decrease in their fisheries.

21. Some animals are shrinking.

22. An additional 20 million more children will go hungry by 2050.

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KEYWORDS: climatechange; climategate; globalwarming; glowbullwarming; hoax; marxism; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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Cowards.

21 posted on 06/11/2014 3:38:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: PATRIOT1876

I didn’t want to alarm anybody, but, you let the cat out of the bag. Now there will be mass rioting. Loose lips sink ships.


22 posted on 06/11/2014 3:40:49 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of millions of people may be displaced by 2050.

Billions and billions even.


23 posted on 06/11/2014 3:44:36 PM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s with all this doom and gloom? Global warming will cause the seas to rise rapidly, so if you live in Cloudcroft, NM, you’ll have beach front property in a few years.


24 posted on 06/11/2014 3:47:46 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
1. Climate change remedies will be insanely expensive.
2. Hundreds of millions of people may be displaced by governments by 2050.
3. Dengue and malaria could spread in the U.S. carried by illegal immigrants and terrorists.
4. Western wildfires could burn up to eight times as much land by 2100 because logging and keeping underbrush in check will be illegal.
(Does land burn? I think they mean forests.)
5. An additional 8% of the world population will experience water scarcity by 2100 because they're not allowed to drill or use river water.
6. Hurricanes could become up to 11% more intense and 20% wetter by 2100 or not. Where did these numbers come from?.
7. Four times as many New Yorkers could live in areas that flood by 2050 also known as beachfront property.
8. Millions of people and trillions in assets are at risk in coastal cities as they always are. And they forgot to use "quadrillions".
9. 136 of the world's most historic places could be in jeopardy as opposed to less historic places.
10. Global wheat and maize yields are already beginning to decline due to less efficient fertilizers.
11. Some small island nations could be destroyed. They could also be wiped out by a tsunami at any time.
12. 100% of reefs may be at risk of extinction by 2050. Until they grow some more or grow in new places.
13. Within 300 years, 88% of New Orleans could be underwater. It would be already if it wasn't for the levies.
14. Increasing droughts will make some of the driest regions even drier. Others will be wetter.
15. 63% of major wine regions could be jeopardized by 2050 and others will more productive and take their place.
16. Some reptiles species could turn mostly female, potentially leading to their extinction but the few remaining males will be happy.
17. Atlanta and New York could see twice as many days of thunderstorms a year by 2100 from the 1962 to 1989 average. Is that so bad?
18. Many countries are losing their main dry season water source. Is it raining less or more now? We're confused.
19. Air Pollution in California could created a serious public health hazard. It has nothing to do with climate change but we threw that in anyway.
(Who proofreads this stuff?)
20. Equatorial regions and parts of the Antarctic will see up to a 50% decrease in their fisheries. Less fish = more vegetation = less CO2. That's good isn't it?
21. Some animals are shrinking. And Plants and other animals will be bigger.
22. An additional 20 million more children will go hungry by 2050 because government took control of food production and distribution.

Most of this is contingent on climate change happening at all. The human caused screw ups may happen anyway.

25 posted on 06/11/2014 3:50:23 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BitWielder1

“13. Within 300 years, 88% of New Orleans could be underwater. It would be already if it wasn’t for the levies.”


“Levies” are taxes-—I think you mean “levees”.

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26 posted on 06/11/2014 3:54:25 PM PDT by Mears (give me a break!)
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To: Mears
You are of course correct. Sorry.
(Do they have Levies on Levees? Probably.)

27 posted on 06/11/2014 3:57:26 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BitWielder1

Awesome!


28 posted on 06/11/2014 4:04:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: glorgau

22 completely hedged statements with no basis in fact and simply conjecture to gin up fear.


29 posted on 06/11/2014 4:07:14 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: BitWielder1

“(Do they have Levies on Levees? Probably.)”

Don’t know about that,but I’m sure they have Chevies on the levees.

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30 posted on 06/11/2014 4:19:05 PM PDT by Mears (give me a break!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like the plot of a really scary movie which everyone would love; too bad there IS NO man-made climate change.


31 posted on 06/11/2014 4:39:09 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s not the first time for socialist garbage from Business Insider.


32 posted on 06/11/2014 4:54:11 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: crazyhorse691

26. Birds will start to roost higher up in trees
27. Kids will want to go swimming 30 seconds sooner than before
28. Field mice will move 200 feet higher up the hill to nest
29. Cold beer will turn warm 2 sips sooner


33 posted on 06/11/2014 4:58:24 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Funny how they can't debate GW, but can threaten you all day long about how scary it will be.
34 posted on 06/11/2014 4:59:57 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Well, monkeys “could” fly out of my butt.

That would not be good.


35 posted on 06/11/2014 5:03:26 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Those who "try" often fail, those who DO often succeed.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

If I am real lucky I will see 2050. (I would be in my nineties) Unless major breakthroughs in aging are made I will not see 2100.


36 posted on 06/11/2014 5:04:30 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Al Gore Forecasted “Ice-Free” Arctic by 2013; Ice Cover Expands 50%

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Self-styled “global-warming” guru Al Gore (shown) and a gaggle of supposed “climate scientists” have egg all over their faces — big time. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Gore publicly and very hysterically warned that the North Pole would be “ice-free” by around 2013 because of alleged “man-made global warming.” Citing “climate” experts, the government-funded BBC hyped the mass hysteria, running a now-embarrassing article under the headline: “Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’.” Other establishment media outlets did the same.

Well, 2013 is almost over, and contrary to the alarmist “predictions” by Gore and what critics refer to as his “doomsday cult,” the latest satellite data show that Arctic ice cover has actually expanded 50 percent over 2012 levels. In fact, during October, sea-ice levels grew at the fastest pace since records began in 1979. Experts predict the expansion to continue in the years to come, leaving global-warming alarmists scrambling fiendishly for explanations to save face — and to revive the rapidly melting climate hysteria.

In September, meanwhile, data also showed that sea ice levels in Antarctica had expanded to record levels for the second year in a row. Of course, by now, virtually everyone who has been following news about “global warming” — now more often referred to as “climate change” owing to public-relations concerns — also knows that global temperatures have not risen for some 17 years. The spectacular lack of warming demolished all 73 of the “climate models” used by the United Nations to push its controversial theories.

According to the dubious theories and predictions advanced by Al Gore and other alarmists, though, none of this should be happening. Speaking to an audience in Germany five years ago, Gore — sometimes ridiculed as “The Goracle” — alleged that “the entire North Polarized [sic] cap will disappear in 5 years.” While the original video of that particular failed prediction appears to have been scrubbed from the Internet, conservative bloggers managed to track down the same footage from other sources. “Five years,” Gore emphasized again, is “the period of time during which it is now expected to disappear.”


37 posted on 06/11/2014 5:07:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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I would pay to see the shrinking animals, plus take the tour of the canals of Manhattan.

Hey, look at the shrinking monkey — oh okay that one just soared out of Al Gore’s ass.


39 posted on 06/11/2014 5:18:27 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: spawn44

I can live with everything you listed...except the beer getting warmer. We all must live in caves heated by a government approved picture of a fire to prevent global warming!!


40 posted on 06/11/2014 5:31:06 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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