The Climate Fallacy of 2100

If we do not plan, now, to limit carbon emissions beyond this century, we will foolishly raise the oceans dramatically for thousands of years.  Strong, new research indicates that anyone or anything tens of feet above the sea today may one day face an unbeatable force. Although shorelines are forever evolving, these changes can be predicted directly, and are due to needlessly excessive carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from a relatively brief, recent period of time.

How has the public not been made clearly and painfully aware of this? Why does fierce debate over climate miss so glaring a threat? The misperception, the widespread disbelief and the fallacy are rooted in a grave error in our thinking about time.

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