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but my adopted daughter probably will be.. and the daughter of my fiancée.

I stored all of the collect Climate data ( either from NOAA or NASA ) throughout the 1990s, both the uncorrected "raw instrument data" and the sensor corrected data. We built a system called EOSDIS which allowed researchers from various universities and other government agencies to access the climate data... Petabytes of climate data ( back when a Petabyte was really a serious amount of computer storage ).

I was a back bencher in meetings with VP Al Gore ( who, obviously, took a personal interest in EOS and EOSDIS ). Providing technical details to my Branch Chief and Center Director when needed.

I can't believe what is happening now. We have stuck our collective heads in the sand for 25 years... and are now prepared to go butt deep into the sand pit. Sigh.

The planet will survive, life will continue.. this is not about the end of life on the planet. But we barely feed ( and really we don't feed ) 9 billion people now. Anyone who has studied resource exhaustion collapse of a animal population knows that it is not a gradual thing... we won't come to 2050 or 2070 and find that we can only feed maybe 4 billion of us... what happens is total collapse. The planet will go on, but without humans ( and many many other species as well ).