Unkotare
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Depends on where you live. The eastern US will continue to endure increasingly intense effects of the polar vortex while the west will get increasingly hot and dry. If you're lucky enough to be rich, you can move to the southern hemisphere to a sanctuary like New Zealand and be one of the last to be affected. For most, I would guess that conditions for living would be difficult to impossible within about 15 to 20 years if feedbacks are as intense as predicted.The ice caps are the planet's heat sink. When they fall apart, all kinds of feedbacks kick in and the climate goes to hell in short order. Here's a graph that shows planetary ice extent. Notice anything frightening about 2016?
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More troublesome yet, there are gigatons worth of methane clathrates ready to melt and contribute more greenhouse gasses than the planet has seen in millions of years.
I'm not advocating action. We're past all that now.
Yeah, ok. And when exactly does the world end, headcase? Be specific.