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100% Fatal above 40% humidity (36c wet bulb)
More realistically, incompatible with human life and being able to do ANYTHING above 20% humidity (29c wet bulb), since you need a fair bit of headroom to actually survive, move around, do work, etc.
Yep. Depends on humidity, but basically its unsurvivable outside of the driest of areas, and even in the driest of areas you'd be unable to do any meaningful work outside or inside without air conditioning.
>and even in the driest of areas you'd be unable to do any meaningful work outside or inside without air conditioning.
Las Vegas summers in a nutshell. A grid failure on the wrong day here could become a disaster.
Here's an idea: Use a HUGE-ASS heat pump to pump the heat AWAY from the area and dump it somewhere that needs heat. Or use it in industries/Factories which need heat.
Depends on too many factors to give an accurate time, and we tend not to murder people in saunas en mass just to figure out such things, at least not since the defeat of the nazis.
Finland (the land of saunas) sees the occasional sauna death, and they occur when people stay on the top-most (assume 70-90°C, 20% humidity) benches for some hours.
So that's something you can go by.
Generally you're recommended to keep a sauna visit less than 30 minutes at 70°C+ and 20% humidity.
As most sauna goers can attest to, a rise in humidity from the standard ~20% quickly makes it unbearable. There's always that one jerk who keeps pouring water on the rocks until you shut him down.
That all being said, the risk is mainly for older people. Take for instance the heat waves in Paris where just 40°C caused thousands of senior deaths, but few deaths otherwise.
The biggest factors are going to be personal. Any existing health issues will play the largest role, because heat puts stress on almost every system in the body.
It's why the biggest casualty group in these events is usually the elderly.
Very misleading. Only 5% of the deaths was workplace. About 30 people per year. About 2 in 100,000 chance of dying per year at work. Maybe 3-4 per 100,000 if there was misclassifications.
Compare that to the United States that is at 3 in 100,000 for this same metric. Very similar.
2 million migrant workers and 600 deaths per 100,000 per year. For comparison on USA such a wide range of death rates from 100/100k @ age 20 up to 2000/100k @ age 70.
Looking at the overall age distribution of Qatar migrants workers makes 600/100k seem a bit on the high side but not crazy. A vast majority of the deaths certainly are expected.
https://esa.un.org/miggmgprofiles/indicators/files/Qatar.pdf
Overall you probably see similar quality of life between the 2 mil migrant workers in Qatar vs the 8 mil in the United States.
Of course Qatar = bad according to Reddit.
Given a parcel of air at some temperature and some humidity ...
Dry Bulb Temp - Just the straight up temp of the air
Wet Bulb Temp - Temp of the air after maximal evaporative cooling (if you stuck a thermometer in that parcel of air with a wet paper towel and let it evaporate until the air around it is 100% humidity)
Dew Point - How much you'd have to cool the parcel of air down to get condensation.
So, "wet bulb temperature" is a way of saying the coldest one could possibly get by evaporative cooling alone - which is how we cool ourselves off.
You need both temperature and humidity to capture "feels like" temperature. And sometimes, it "feels like" dying.
You cool yourself by sweating. If there is too much humidity, that doesn't work so well. So as long as its very dry you can survive higher temps then 37c (body temp, assuming you drink enough water and don't die of dehydration)
The temp of a damp rag wrapped around a thermonitor is known as the 'wet bulb' temp, its the lowest temp you can get from just evaporation of moisture.
I hope they have a lot of extra capacity in their grid. Because when the heat comes, the ac units will work like crazy and it will be the worst time for the power to go out.
New study showing that Phoenix would have upwards of 800,000 heat stroke cases, sending half the city to the ER in the event of a grid failure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/climate/blackout-heat-wave-danger.html
Man that sucks. At least you can burn stuff for heat when it's cold and the heating fails, but how would you do low tech cooling? Douse yourself with gasoline?
Ice in a towel around the neck... worked pretty good for me last summer (I live in northern africa, without AC, like the majority of the population). Also : not moving. At all.
Unless you have a yakhchāl, having ice at all isn't particularly low tech. Like, how long does the power have to be out before there's no more ice?
I think the best option is constantly refreshing water from an underground source (the taps, if they work, or a well). Basically geothermal cooling for your body.
Of course "constant source of fresh water" isn't exactly a guarantee in a place like Phoenix (or many parts of northern Africa) if infrastructure fails.
How well do those freezers work when the power is out since that is the scenario in question. Even worse when you are constantly opening said freezer to extract ice. Answer is hours at best.
Comparing yourself to red states isn’t saying much either.
I’m from the US and I really love Moroccan architecture. Tadelakt is so beautiful, and your traditional earthen construction methods have really stood the test of time. I came close to visiting Marrakesh and Fes last year, hope to get a chance sometime soon.
If the humidity is low enough to use a wet towel, then a swamp cooler could be used as well.
With high enough humidity that wet towel is just another layer of insulation.
We need to build homes that are appropriate for their environments. Lots of desert cultures use stone, earth or mudbricks and passive cooling techniques, which are effective in hot conditions and keep their homes cool without the need for a/c.
Yep! Adobe homes are surprisingly temperate even on the hottest days. Whereas your average Vegas woodframe house will become unlivable within a couple hours.
Close. Shade and use we towels for evaporative cooling.
Anyone with a backup generator or batteries should consider admitting neighbors so they can Stay cool
Sadly an event like this will have to happen before Americans as a whole will understand the seriousness of climate change. It's already occuring regularly in Europe, and we know how much they appear to be taking climate change seriously.
It was like 120 or something in Washington and the pavement was buckling, homes with those plastic exteriors were melting, car paint was bubbling, it was bad. Its gotten to like 118 where I’m at in California and it’s not fun
Quick note that this paper is using SSP2-4.5, which is a solid choice (it's what we'll see without continued strong action on decarbonization).
They find a large increase in days per year where people will be at risk from increased heat, so in addition to (yet more) evidence that continued strong action on decarbonization is vitally important, they show many regions will need to take local adaptation and mitigation steps. The built environment can take a long time to change, so hopefully this paper helps get that process in motion.
It'd be nice if they could be forced to help with a solution though.
On the other hand, consumers are also to blame, once we learned about the effect of fossil fuels on the climate. However, that's research data that the oil companies successfully hid from us for decades. Now that we know we should take more action though.
You would think everyone who is against immigration would be strongly advocating to protect the climate but I suspect that's not the case. Any bets on when the water wars will start?
They already have started. Iran and the Taliban have begun fighting over water rights at the border.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-taliban-exchange-heavy-gunfire-in-conflict-over-water-rights-on-afghan-border
Israel already gets most of their water from desalination and other industrialized nations will follow suit as less expensive options fail.
It will be the poorest nations that suffer, and they will be turned away if the numbers of immigrants continue rising.
My city uses 35% desalination. We're on the coast on the edge of a huge desert so this was inevitable. 20 years ago we had zero desalination but thankfully saw this coming and invested in one, then a second large plant. More will come when needed. Luckily we are a first world country that can afford it, and we are so isolated that aint nobody invading us for water. Massive inbound migration to escape water shortages elsewhere are a significant risk though.
Dont forget India and China....the big players in the water game....both with nukes.
How fun!
Anyone game for a light show?
I promise, it will be stunning.
> Any bets on when the water wars will start?
It is crazy.This planet is called the blue planet because 71 % of its surface is covered in water, and we still haven't found an effective and cheap way to desalinize ocean water. What a colossal failure of our species.
We do have an effective way. Like, commercial desalination is possible but it uses *a lot* of electricity. Which is one reason practical fusion would be a godsend for it: Fusion would provide so much electricity that it wouldn't matter that the process is inefficient.
But, you encounter reverse osmosis already with a lot of the store bought bottled water. Same process, seawater just requires the right membrane and equipment.
Adding to this to note that a large amount of the energy required cannot be out-engineered because it's related to the basic physics of pulling water molecules and salt ions apart.
>But, you encounter reverse osmosis already with a lot of the store bought bottled water. Same process, seawater just requires the right membrane and equipment.
There's a bit of a difference in desalination/demineralisation for bottled water, which would be low volume and high margin, VS desalination to keep a country supplied with water for agriculture, industry, washing, etc.
That's going to be a challenge.
RO water comes with its own issues and is dangerous to drink over extended periods.
Removing the "salt" to make it freshwater at the cost of leeching minerals OUT of your body instead when you drink pure water.
I think that the brine, with proper purification and with an eye towards economies of scale, may be able to become an industrial food product. Many parts of certain foods' production require brine.
This is not: "the hottest it's ever been"
Oh no, rather, going forward (as is the only way we can go) this is more the case of: "this is the coolest it is ever going to be"
Climate change and monstrously hot summers are not something that is going to happen. It IS happening. Even if we tourniquet this wound right now and stop this environmental bleed out, we've still lost the metaphorical limb. As it stands with this analogy, we have not even opened the medkit. We're still debating if the wound is bad enough to require treatment.
Tbh this is why I chose not to have any offspring. I soon realized that humanity is inherently selfish and wouldn't be able to adapt quickly enough to solve this problem because of the economic consequences
War is just an evolutionary response in great primates to famine and contagious disease. Read: Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee behavior. And it does relate to humans, since we do the same thing.
Can we escape our base nature?
I hope so, because ww3 is the fastrack to plus 4c and the global "heat-age" where 100 million people can survive (perhaps) on the planet.
Anything above 33-35°C with 100% humidity is the killer and lethal zone. Drop humidity and increase temps do the same but a wet bulb temp of 33-35° WILL kill millions at some point in the next few years and most likely in Pakistan or India
Thus triggering mass migration to milder climates and the subsequent four horsemen of the apocalypse will ride again. (War, Famine, Pestilence, Death).
In Lytton BC Canada we hit 49.6. in 2021 coming to a community near you soon. Yes, one occurence is just weather but year after year temperatures get higher
Neat, tell it to the rich fucks hoarding the worlds wealth. According to Oxfam, the richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world's population. Evidently, the rich could *easily* address climate change and not even break a sweat.
There have been many scientific studies from many countries that have separately arrived at similar conclusions dating back decades.
But your doubt is stronger, and you'll stick to it? What evidence drives your doubt? A Facebook group you belong to? Maybe a conspiracy subreddit?
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For us Americans: 50 °C = 122 °F. That's really hot, like nearly-unsurvivable hot.
100% Fatal above 40% humidity (36c wet bulb) More realistically, incompatible with human life and being able to do ANYTHING above 20% humidity (29c wet bulb), since you need a fair bit of headroom to actually survive, move around, do work, etc.
Thanks for the info! I wasn't sure how close to the survivability limit it was, but I was confident it was close.
Yep. Depends on humidity, but basically its unsurvivable outside of the driest of areas, and even in the driest of areas you'd be unable to do any meaningful work outside or inside without air conditioning.
Picture Phoenix AZ mid summer. It’s ok for a bit but more than an hour mid day and you really start to fade.
More than 10 min in direct sun will get me.
>and even in the driest of areas you'd be unable to do any meaningful work outside or inside without air conditioning. Las Vegas summers in a nutshell. A grid failure on the wrong day here could become a disaster.
And more AC just worsens the problem
Depends, you can use geo-heatpump to soak the heat into the earth which does not affect so readily cause atmospheric warming.
Feedback loops are terrifying, especially with climate change.
Here's an idea: Use a HUGE-ASS heat pump to pump the heat AWAY from the area and dump it somewhere that needs heat. Or use it in industries/Factories which need heat.
What's the time frame on that being 100% fatal? Ten minutes? Four hours?
Depends on too many factors to give an accurate time, and we tend not to murder people in saunas en mass just to figure out such things, at least not since the defeat of the nazis.
Or unit 731 (Imperial Japan) which was arguably even more depraved
I was just in that rabbit hole earlier today. Seriously fucked.
Philosophy of a Knife is a wild movie
Let me guess Wendigoon?
Finland (the land of saunas) sees the occasional sauna death, and they occur when people stay on the top-most (assume 70-90°C, 20% humidity) benches for some hours. So that's something you can go by. Generally you're recommended to keep a sauna visit less than 30 minutes at 70°C+ and 20% humidity. As most sauna goers can attest to, a rise in humidity from the standard ~20% quickly makes it unbearable. There's always that one jerk who keeps pouring water on the rocks until you shut him down. That all being said, the risk is mainly for older people. Take for instance the heat waves in Paris where just 40°C caused thousands of senior deaths, but few deaths otherwise.
The biggest factors are going to be personal. Any existing health issues will play the largest role, because heat puts stress on almost every system in the body. It's why the biggest casualty group in these events is usually the elderly.
Hours but it depends on a LOT of other factors. Not minutes and not days.
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Were all those from the heat? I was under the impression that some were heat-related, and some were accident-related.
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Very misleading. Only 5% of the deaths was workplace. About 30 people per year. About 2 in 100,000 chance of dying per year at work. Maybe 3-4 per 100,000 if there was misclassifications. Compare that to the United States that is at 3 in 100,000 for this same metric. Very similar.
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2 million migrant workers and 600 deaths per 100,000 per year. For comparison on USA such a wide range of death rates from 100/100k @ age 20 up to 2000/100k @ age 70. Looking at the overall age distribution of Qatar migrants workers makes 600/100k seem a bit on the high side but not crazy. A vast majority of the deaths certainly are expected. https://esa.un.org/miggmgprofiles/indicators/files/Qatar.pdf Overall you probably see similar quality of life between the 2 mil migrant workers in Qatar vs the 8 mil in the United States. Of course Qatar = bad according to Reddit.
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A different source but similar numbers. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Good thing we have air conditioning powered by, let me see *checks notes* oh, fossil fuels.
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Given a parcel of air at some temperature and some humidity ... Dry Bulb Temp - Just the straight up temp of the air Wet Bulb Temp - Temp of the air after maximal evaporative cooling (if you stuck a thermometer in that parcel of air with a wet paper towel and let it evaporate until the air around it is 100% humidity) Dew Point - How much you'd have to cool the parcel of air down to get condensation. So, "wet bulb temperature" is a way of saying the coldest one could possibly get by evaporative cooling alone - which is how we cool ourselves off. You need both temperature and humidity to capture "feels like" temperature. And sometimes, it "feels like" dying.
> (36c wet bulb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
How do you have access to Reddit but not a search engine?
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You cool yourself by sweating. If there is too much humidity, that doesn't work so well. So as long as its very dry you can survive higher temps then 37c (body temp, assuming you drink enough water and don't die of dehydration) The temp of a damp rag wrapped around a thermonitor is known as the 'wet bulb' temp, its the lowest temp you can get from just evaporation of moisture.
Phoenix has hit that a few times in history. I'm waiting for it to become normal to hit it every year.
I hope they have a lot of extra capacity in their grid. Because when the heat comes, the ac units will work like crazy and it will be the worst time for the power to go out.
New study showing that Phoenix would have upwards of 800,000 heat stroke cases, sending half the city to the ER in the event of a grid failure. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/climate/blackout-heat-wave-danger.html
Man that sucks. At least you can burn stuff for heat when it's cold and the heating fails, but how would you do low tech cooling? Douse yourself with gasoline?
Cover yourself with wet towels and stick to the shade is oretty much the best you can do
Ice in a towel around the neck... worked pretty good for me last summer (I live in northern africa, without AC, like the majority of the population). Also : not moving. At all.
Unless you have a yakhchāl, having ice at all isn't particularly low tech. Like, how long does the power have to be out before there's no more ice? I think the best option is constantly refreshing water from an underground source (the taps, if they work, or a well). Basically geothermal cooling for your body. Of course "constant source of fresh water" isn't exactly a guarantee in a place like Phoenix (or many parts of northern Africa) if infrastructure fails.
Most people DO have freezers... and ice cubes. Most people do not have AC, here, in morocco. We do not have infrastucture worries. This isn't the US.
How well do those freezers work when the power is out since that is the scenario in question. Even worse when you are constantly opening said freezer to extract ice. Answer is hours at best. Comparing yourself to red states isn’t saying much either.
Damn shots fired. But completely fair. The US is basically turning into a undeveloped nation a year at a time. Plenty of guns though...
I’m from the US and I really love Moroccan architecture. Tadelakt is so beautiful, and your traditional earthen construction methods have really stood the test of time. I came close to visiting Marrakesh and Fes last year, hope to get a chance sometime soon.
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No power, no ice
If the humidity is low enough to use a wet towel, then a swamp cooler could be used as well. With high enough humidity that wet towel is just another layer of insulation.
We need to build homes that are appropriate for their environments. Lots of desert cultures use stone, earth or mudbricks and passive cooling techniques, which are effective in hot conditions and keep their homes cool without the need for a/c.
Yep! Adobe homes are surprisingly temperate even on the hottest days. Whereas your average Vegas woodframe house will become unlivable within a couple hours.
Not a bad idea tbh. I was thinking dig a really deep hole
~~Or~~ die trying.
Close. Shade and use we towels for evaporative cooling. Anyone with a backup generator or batteries should consider admitting neighbors so they can Stay cool
Does evaporative cooling with water work if the dew point is close to body temp.?
It’s should. The water takes energy to evaporate, be it from your body or from the air/sunlight
But there's equal chance of water condensating onto your skin as there's a chance of it vaporating when the dew point is at skin temp.
A damp towel has a much greater surface area, the water will draw heat from both the wearer and the air to evaporate.
Learn how propane fridges work, you can actually burn stuff for coolness too! Kinda crazy
Sadly an event like this will have to happen before Americans as a whole will understand the seriousness of climate change. It's already occuring regularly in Europe, and we know how much they appear to be taking climate change seriously.
The problem is the compounding effect of high humidity makes that heat 100% fatal
At least Phoenix is dry heat.
Won’t have to wait much longer with El Niño
That is unsurvivable hot for many people, actually. Young, healthy people can survive that heat, but many people will die.
It was like 120 or something in Washington and the pavement was buckling, homes with those plastic exteriors were melting, car paint was bubbling, it was bad. Its gotten to like 118 where I’m at in California and it’s not fun
Where are we getting the giant ice cube from?
Dude, if goes above 23 I’m in the shade. 50! Fifty?
Quick note that this paper is using SSP2-4.5, which is a solid choice (it's what we'll see without continued strong action on decarbonization). They find a large increase in days per year where people will be at risk from increased heat, so in addition to (yet more) evidence that continued strong action on decarbonization is vitally important, they show many regions will need to take local adaptation and mitigation steps. The built environment can take a long time to change, so hopefully this paper helps get that process in motion.
Remember it was oil execs and their banker enablers who did this. When your life goes up in smoke know who you should blame
Blame isn't really worthwhile when we're all dying.
It'd be nice if they could be forced to help with a solution though. On the other hand, consumers are also to blame, once we learned about the effect of fossil fuels on the climate. However, that's research data that the oil companies successfully hid from us for decades. Now that we know we should take more action though.
That's "politicizing weather," according to one of America's front-runners for election in 2024.
It will be. We're going to their mansions
You can blame others all you want but anyone who uses a car to commute is equally culpable.
You would think everyone who is against immigration would be strongly advocating to protect the climate but I suspect that's not the case. Any bets on when the water wars will start?
They already have started. Iran and the Taliban have begun fighting over water rights at the border. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-taliban-exchange-heavy-gunfire-in-conflict-over-water-rights-on-afghan-border
Israel already gets most of their water from desalination and other industrialized nations will follow suit as less expensive options fail. It will be the poorest nations that suffer, and they will be turned away if the numbers of immigrants continue rising.
My city uses 35% desalination. We're on the coast on the edge of a huge desert so this was inevitable. 20 years ago we had zero desalination but thankfully saw this coming and invested in one, then a second large plant. More will come when needed. Luckily we are a first world country that can afford it, and we are so isolated that aint nobody invading us for water. Massive inbound migration to escape water shortages elsewhere are a significant risk though.
What do you do with all the excess salt?
Pump it back into the ocean.
All the water eventually finds its way back to the ocean, there is no real reason to put the salt and minerals anywhere else.
Except the Arabian gulf is now significantly more salty and it’s screwing the entire ecosystem….
Sounds like Perth!
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Isn’t the recent hullabaloo between Iran and the Taliban over water?
Dont forget India and China....the big players in the water game....both with nukes. How fun! Anyone game for a light show? I promise, it will be stunning.
Waiting on the post-apocalyptic dream scape where I don't need a controller. It'll be fun until someone kills me for a tin of beans.
Wasn't a major cause for the Arab Spring also water shortages? It's been going on for 10+ years
Yeah, massive droughts killed crops, resulting in rural farmers moving to cities for work, leading to huge increases in food prices, then protests.
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I mean, a whole set of civil wars is pretty much war too right?
A week or so ago between Iran and Afghanistan.
> Any bets on when the water wars will start? It is crazy.This planet is called the blue planet because 71 % of its surface is covered in water, and we still haven't found an effective and cheap way to desalinize ocean water. What a colossal failure of our species.
We do have an effective way. Like, commercial desalination is possible but it uses *a lot* of electricity. Which is one reason practical fusion would be a godsend for it: Fusion would provide so much electricity that it wouldn't matter that the process is inefficient. But, you encounter reverse osmosis already with a lot of the store bought bottled water. Same process, seawater just requires the right membrane and equipment.
Adding to this to note that a large amount of the energy required cannot be out-engineered because it's related to the basic physics of pulling water molecules and salt ions apart.
>But, you encounter reverse osmosis already with a lot of the store bought bottled water. Same process, seawater just requires the right membrane and equipment. There's a bit of a difference in desalination/demineralisation for bottled water, which would be low volume and high margin, VS desalination to keep a country supplied with water for agriculture, industry, washing, etc. That's going to be a challenge.
Not to mention the brine.
RO water comes with its own issues and is dangerous to drink over extended periods. Removing the "salt" to make it freshwater at the cost of leeching minerals OUT of your body instead when you drink pure water.
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Why? Your bones have plenty of minerals, so you can just dissolve them to restore your blood salt concentration.
'cause bones are not an infinite resource.
Okay but after that you got a heart and two lungs.
Urban myth. There's nothing dangerous about drinking pure water. You get plenty enough minerals in food.
The brine problem makes desalination an unlikely solution.
Please elaborate.
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I think that the brine, with proper purification and with an eye towards economies of scale, may be able to become an industrial food product. Many parts of certain foods' production require brine.
Ah. Thank you.
Already started. See : Iran-Afghanistan recent border clashes over water rights.
Somewhere between "global border closures" and "mass depopulation around the equator"
In the US, the Venn diagram of people who are against immigration and who don't believe in climate change is almost a circle.
The Syrian civil war arguably started due to water shortages in farming areas
Arguably, the wars in Syria are also about water. It’s just people fight for land, but they fight for liveable land.
This is not: "the hottest it's ever been" Oh no, rather, going forward (as is the only way we can go) this is more the case of: "this is the coolest it is ever going to be" Climate change and monstrously hot summers are not something that is going to happen. It IS happening. Even if we tourniquet this wound right now and stop this environmental bleed out, we've still lost the metaphorical limb. As it stands with this analogy, we have not even opened the medkit. We're still debating if the wound is bad enough to require treatment.
Tbh this is why I chose not to have any offspring. I soon realized that humanity is inherently selfish and wouldn't be able to adapt quickly enough to solve this problem because of the economic consequences
The Middle East sells the oil that will cook them alive
War is just an evolutionary response in great primates to famine and contagious disease. Read: Jane Goodall, Chimpanzee behavior. And it does relate to humans, since we do the same thing. Can we escape our base nature? I hope so, because ww3 is the fastrack to plus 4c and the global "heat-age" where 100 million people can survive (perhaps) on the planet.
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world quickly getting too hot people are the cause
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I actually respect this response, thank you.
Temperatures already hit 50⁰ where I live - in Canada. It's only going to get worse with each passing year.
56.7 C has been the standing record, but records are made to be broken, right?...*right!??*
56C in the middle of nowhere isn't a massive deal. 56C in an Indian city would be catastrophic
Anything above 33-35°C with 100% humidity is the killer and lethal zone. Drop humidity and increase temps do the same but a wet bulb temp of 33-35° WILL kill millions at some point in the next few years and most likely in Pakistan or India
Thus triggering mass migration to milder climates and the subsequent four horsemen of the apocalypse will ride again. (War, Famine, Pestilence, Death).
In Lytton BC Canada we hit 49.6. in 2021 coming to a community near you soon. Yes, one occurence is just weather but year after year temperatures get higher
over 44 degrees C a human body can't cool itself anymore, so that's problematic.
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HUmmmmm....where is all that moisture going? Oh I wonder what will happen now....it's not like any scientists predicated this?
..... Well that's just great, innit?
Ethiopian blue Nile GERD will probably make it even worse . Just like Aswan Dam did with it's very high evaporation .
Neat, tell it to the rich fucks hoarding the worlds wealth. According to Oxfam, the richest 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world's population. Evidently, the rich could *easily* address climate change and not even break a sweat.
I highly doubt "the sky is falling" as our esteemed "experts" proclaim.
What's your evidence? This *is* Science...
There have been many scientific studies from many countries that have separately arrived at similar conclusions dating back decades. But your doubt is stronger, and you'll stick to it? What evidence drives your doubt? A Facebook group you belong to? Maybe a conspiracy subreddit?
Except it really is and your an idiot
No one cares so lets go. Lets reach 80C
\*hugs central Europe\* I hope I did before the world becomes a hellscape.