This is not hyperbole. We are already seeing heat indexes above 160 degrees. Even if everyone in these areas had air conditioning or heat pumps—which they don't

This is not hyperbole. We are already seeing heat indexes above 160 degrees. Even if everyone in these areas had air conditioning or heat pumps—which they don't—it's far more likely a power grid failure will rear its ugly head with all of them turned on to the max. There's also livestock and crops to consider. Do they have air conditioning too? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/30/iran-city-hits-suffocating-heat-index-of-154-degrees-near-world-record/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/... Remember, solar can't keep up with that due to the solar constant and cell efficiency dropping with extreme heat. Even fossil fuels can't track as well because they're governed by Carnot efficiency where the cold sink is largely affected by ambient temperatures. The world is heating up, and there only needs to be a few days at 160 to kill all the cows, goats, chickens, start fires, and overwhelm the power grid. In the past few years we've seen the old and vulnerable die in European summers. As it gets hotter, the threshold for "vulnerable" expands to include larger and larger portions of the population. Pretending the problem doesn't exist or is not going to be serious will not help anyone.