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it'd be nice to have a body count somewhere...

• Waterluvian 7y ago
  Yeah merge this with a beautiful GIS that simulates sea level rise and loss of land. As well as extinction estimates of plants and animals.
  • lopmotr 7y ago
    You can't really see sea level rise on a map because most of our developed sea shores are already at least a meter or two above water. It's not going to change the shape of the coastlines near cities or other developed places, which is where it's important. Instead, it's predicted to increase the frequency and severity of flooding.
    • Waterluvian 7y ago
      True. So we look at floodplain maps and how they change.
• lucb1e 7y ago
  Also a count of people newly entering poverty, being displaced, increased spending on recovery from extreme weather events, increased spending on dikes (I'm Dutch, but a lot of countries will have to do that), increased mortality from the pollution (currently it's already in the millions of premature deaths per year but very few people know this), which animal and plant species will go extinct, etc.
• jokoon 7y ago
  Well a good start would be to try to predict agriculture outputs with those temperature. Honestly I tried asking this question but got no answer. Cereals might be just fine, and growing food in places where it's not possible to grow food is also a solution. But I'm terribly curious about the impact on food. Heatwaves will probably cause a lot of deaths at first, but once it happens, there are easy things cities can do to mitigate them.
  • marcosdumay 7y ago
    > Cereals might be just fine, and growing food in places where it's not possible to grow food is also a solution. The further away from the tropics you go, the less productive is agriculture.