Unfortunately human beings don't see enough years in their lifetime for some of the longer patterns to be visible. Others only become visible on human time scales when it is far too late to do anything. Political leaders only have to hope for one or two lucky years on their watch
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In the American West, things are even worse because there is a documented history of multi-year megadroughts (four in the last 1200 years) and you have to try to superimpose the effects of anthropogenic climate change on that as we enter a fifth one.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/314 …
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A lot of places would be rightly considered uninhabitable if we were a longer-lived species. Seattle would be a wilderness and everyone would make fun of Steve for building a vacation house there
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