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>>The truth is, someday humans may be able to take tropical vacations at the North Pole - and it will be perfectly natural.
You can't be serious. If you're suggesting that allowing tropical conditions to exist at the north pole would be perfectly acceptable to you, then you really are a fuckwit; and therefore I can assume that there's not one consequence in the world that could convince you this could be a problem.
When you speak in the hypothetical like that, keep in mind what the temperature in the rest of the would be if the north pole were tropical!
And I wish people would dispense with all this "It's a natural course of nature." talk. It isn't, and even if it were, I wouldn't give a shit.
You talk like we can just rebuilt cities in a day, someplace else and adapt. If God himself came down and through an asteroid at our planet, I know at least two movies that basicly illustrate the correct human response: stop it from happening, regardless of whether or not it's natural, because it will destroy a lot of our stuff.
Stop with this, "Mankind will adapt to a changing environment."
That's what WE're trying to do! We just want to adapt without letting the changing environment wipe out large chunks of our treasure.
Supposing our current global warming experience were a part of a natural cycle and not man created, would that make it any less of a threat to our coastlines?