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Actually you can ignore economy. tl;dr; Futurama was right: nuclear winter cancels global warming 1. At high humidity max temperatures humans can survive for
by c2h5oh 7y ago
Actually you can ignore economy.
tl;dr; Futurama was right: nuclear winter cancels global warming
1. At high humidity max temperatures humans can survive for more than 30 minutes are not that high.
2. During a heatwave (peak 46C at ~50% humidity) in India 30% of Ahmedabad all cause mortality was connected to temperatures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024996/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024996/
3. Temperature increase is not going to be the same across the globe. Many models predict with a 2C global avg temp increase a 4C increase of average temperatures in India and Pakistan with peak temperatures during heat waves going up by as much as 10C.
4. That temperature increase pushes conditions beyond what most people can acclimatize to. In large areas of India, Pakistan and China (among other places) physical labor and maybe even survival without access to cooling will not be possible for as much as 20-60 days per year.
5. A significant chunk of 3.9B people living in India, Pakistan and China will be displaced with nowhere to go. All 3 countries have nuclear weapons to make sure they have somewhere to go :P
- etatoby 7y ago> Futurama was right: nuclear winter cancels global warming I'm not sure it does (I'd love to read an accurate model of it) but I get your point. It's a very compelling point. I wish humans didn't need the threat of nuclear weapons to keep the basic needs of other humans in mind, but since they do... there you go.