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Flash floods in Nepal kill at least 390 so far, another 1400 still missing

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Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.

Ocean temperatures reach highest ever on record, highest in something like 150,000 years. And it only did this over the course of a hundred years. Yeah the temperature has fluxuated in the past but it usually changes over periods of tens-of-thousands of years. The only times that abrupt shifts like this have ever occured in the fossil record coincide with dramatic dieoffs of the world's biosphere.