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Originally Posted by Lasereth
In 1989 when I was in Kindergarten, my teachers told us we would be frying in 2000 because of Global Warming. Now it's 20 years later and there is no difference. Oh gosh the earth is 0.5% warmer in the past 100 years. Man we're cooking here.
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I'm not entirely sure your Kindergarden teacher was qualified to interpret advanced climate data.
BTW,
about 6,000 years ago, when the planet was about one degree Fahrenheit warmer than it is now, Nebraska was a desert. There aren't a lot of people alive today that remember the dust-bowl years of the 1930s, but I can't imagine they would be something positive for food production, especially considering that demand is rising exponentially.
Edit: I'm not saying that would necessarily happen, but doesn't that put the 1 degree into perspective?