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If we're already going to have to heavily adapt our living arrangements to account for extreme climate change, at what point does 0.1° not matter? 5.0° vs 5.1°?
by teawrecks 3y ago
If we're already going to have to heavily adapt our living arrangements to account for extreme climate change, at what point does 0.1° not matter? 5.0° vs 5.1°? 10.0° vs 10.1°?
- Kye 3y agoThe difference is how many billions of dollars it costs, and by proxy, who can afford to survive climate change.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoIt's an average on the whole planet and the whole year. 0.1 on average can mean huge spikes on some parts of the globe.
- mlyle 3y agoJust think of that 0.1C as an incremental step making even more of what's currently productive agricultural land, not. Can you give up a little more? Maybe... but not forever.
- hackerlight 3y agoLearn the concept of marginality. Things get progressively worse. Reality is usually not a binary switch.