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in the form of heat) and more water vapour for the increased evaporation from the seas.
Just this higher presence of water vapour in the atmosphere could increase the violence of tempests, hurricanes and simple thunderstorms.

Now, how will we be able to adapt ourselves to the submersion of overcrowded areas like Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ganges Plane, Nile Delta, Po Plane (Italy), The Netherlands, German towns along the sea, the whole Florida and the coastal areas of southern U.S. and Caribbean regions, only to make some examples?

The fertile areas of the world will be drastically reduced, just while the world population will be reaching 8, 10 billions inhabitants, with the present growing rates.
It's clear that an adaptation will be impossible for all our delicate social, economic and political equilibria and systems and the whole mankind will collapse for a disaster like this, within few years, more or less.

This scenario can't be predicted with precision, but climate will change everywhere, in any case; some regions of the world will become hotter and drier than today and others even colder and rainy but we don't know exactly which of them.

For ex., various scientists have detected a decrease of 30% in the mass of water carried by the Gulf Stream of North Atlantic Ocean that mitigates the climate of U.K. and Scandinavia.
This drop is most likely due to the melting of the polar ice-cap and the consequent increased mass of sweeter and lighter water coming from the Arctic Ocean.
This change would make drop the average temperatures of these areas up to 5-10C.
I don't believe Norwegian, Irish, Islandese and English populations will be very happy of this change, with all their fjords and bays constantly frozen during colder and colder winters.
How will it be possible to ask them to "adapt" to this dramatic situation?
And how to ask a ready "adaptation" to 120 millions of Bangladesh citizens, who will not know where the hell to go, when their flat land will be submerged by the increase of ocean level of various metres?

For these reasons here briefly summarized, we will have to be very ACTIVE, not PASSIVE in the next future to stop or, at least, to limit global warming (it's sure that it will continue like this or faster, given that we haven't still begun to strongly react) and the damage related to it by means of the imposition of much more severe limits to CO2 and CH4 (METHANE) emissions.
In the meantime, we'll have to MASSIVELY invest on clean energies (SOLAR, EOLIAN, GEOTHERMAL, SEA CURRENTS MOTION, ENERGY SAVING) at the place of oil, gas and coal combustion and of uranium (expensive, dangerous and source of radioactive and indestructible wastes we don't know where to store), that must become, as soon as possible, only a dirty memory of the past.

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