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Why bleak? What effects other than milder winters and sea level rising a few mm a decade?
by swader999 3y ago
Why bleak? What effects other than milder winters and sea level rising a few mm a decade?
- hackerlight 3y agoEvents like this become more frequent: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deadly-african-heat-wave-would-not-have-been-possible-without-climate-change/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deadly-african-he... If you shift a normal distribution to the right even a little bit, the frequency of tail events above a fixed threshold (in this case, wet bulb temperatures exceeding the human survivability limit of 35 degrees celcius) increases more than linearly. This is especially an issue near the equator, which will lead to climate refugees seeking colder climates, north and south.
- onion2k 3y agoIf that's all that happens then humanity has been lucky. At the other end of the scale, billions die of starvation, wars over resources, etc.