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Honestly both of them are small, and I think citing the degrees is just terrible messaging altogether. I think people would gladly accept & adapt to even a 5°F
by dataflow 5y ago
Honestly both of them are small, and I think citing the degrees is just terrible messaging altogether. I think people would gladly accept & adapt to even a 5°F increase; I know I would. The problem is that doesn't capture anything about the local variation (and impacts like hurricanes, fires, etc.), and that even beyond that, we're absolutely destroying everything about our planet as we know it, and a single-degree change in average temperatures is just icing on the cake.
- einpoklum 5y agoTry to sit in a bath of 36°C. You can sit there for hours. Now switch to a bath of 38°C. After a while you'll be sweaty, sluggish, tired, breath harder etc. They have this at the St. Gellert baths in Budapest: https://afar-production.imgix.net/uploads/images/post_images/images/7HikxZ31iT/original_bdc0c9f211502508fbd9676628360fd2.jpg https://afar-production.imgix.net/uploads/images/post_images...
- dataflow 5y agoPeople live in extremely hot weather. And air conditioning is a thing. A few degrees in temperature change is quite manageable. (And btw, not everyone lives in 36°C. Try to get those who live in a 20°C weather to care about a 2°C change even without air conditioning.)
- gpt5 5y agoThat's not a good analogy. Water transfers heat 24 times as fast as air.