You know, when I think about it climate change might not be that bad. If all the icecaps melted California, New York, Oregon and Vancouver would be underwater

Well, if they think we are going to have a runaway greenhouse effect by 2030 they are idiots. ALL of the carbon on the earth used to be in the air and the planet didn't fry.

Now, if they mean that is the point of no return where we will have a hothouse earth, sure that could happen.

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Only with natural gas to stop us from freezing when it gets to -40 every year

I think it is more complicated. Much of the water that feeds the continent comes from meltwater in the Rockies, for example. And a great deal of that comes from melting glaciers, which are receeding at an incredible rate. Once they are gone many rivers will dry up or become a shadow of what they once were. The Columbia icefields, as one example, have retreated over a half mile in 30 years.

Keep in mind those waters all flow from my province (Alberta) to fill the Missourri and Mississippi

My point was that there is more too it than just warming. As Alberta warms and the agricultural zone moves north we also see desertification in the south. For now that is probably a net benefit because we have enough water to grow crops in the prairies (which are dry enough that they are a desert) and having a 20 hour day in July is great for crops in the north, especially if they have a long enough season that we can be sure they won't be killed by frost. BUT with less water we could actually lose cropland.

Oh, I am not that worried either. As I said to a friend who is, we humans are masters of manipulating our environment.

I had heard of Centralia before, although I didn't know it's name

No kidding

Don't they already think he is alt-right?

The great thing about SJW's is there are really good at pissing people off. They just can't stop themselves from trying to control everything

Eventually enough people will wake up

You were probably arguing with SJW's rather than normies, you can't win that discussion.

As an example, my wife decided in our last election (in Canada) to vote for the Conservatives because the Liberals were planning on raising taxes on us personally. I have a feeling that is fairly typical.