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But the most striking feature of this early age of mammals is that it was almost unbelievably hot, so hot that around 50 million years ago there were crocodiles, palm trees, and sand tiger sharks in the Arctic Circle. On the other side of the blue-green orb, in waters that today would surround Antarctica, sea-surface temperatures might have topped an unthinkable 86 degrees Fahrenheit, with near-tropical forests on Antarctica itself. There were perhaps even sprawling, febrile dead zones spanning the tropics, too hot even for animal or plant life of any sort.

That's what bothers me - the possibility that we could wind up with huge dead zones and people huddled above the Arctic Circle in a century or two.

We've also seen heat waves in the US SW where it got so hot that some passenger aircraft couldn't take off.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/1583 ... el-science

If that's happening now (summer of 2017), how long before it gets too hot to live in some places in central America or parts of Africa and Asia? 50 years? 100?

When that happens, we're going to see permanent human migration on a scale we've never seen before in recorded history. That's going to be hugely disruptive to everyone on the planet, Canadians included, even if we're only creating 2% of CO2 emissions.