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> limiting global warming to 1.5 °C would prevent most of the tropics from reaching the wet-bulb temperature of the human physiological limit of 35 °C. We've h
by margalabargala 3y ago
> limiting global warming to 1.5 °C would prevent most of the tropics from reaching the wet-bulb temperature of the human physiological limit of 35 °C.
We've had one year at the level of warming that is not yet expected to yield mass death from wet bulb events.
Give it time. There's no reason to think that the current warming trend will slow, stop, or reverse itself in the near term.
- briandear 3y agoWhy is there “no reason?” This has happened repeatedly throughout history. Climate has always changed. The only difference now is that “preventing” climate change is a huge industry.
- Rygian 3y agoThe reasons for this increase in temperature persist and new contributing reasons are starting to appear, that create vicious feedback loops.
- margalabargala 3y ago"Maybe it'll just -waves hands- magically happen" is "no reason". Saying "climate has changed in the past and therefore there is reason to believe that it will change in this particular way, in the future" does not logically follow. Climate has changed repeatedly throughout history. Every time a temperature increase has changed to a temperature decrease, this must be preceded by the rate of temperature increase decreasing. We observe the rate of temperature increase, continuing to increase. Thus there is reason to believe that it will get hotter for some time, before it again gets colder.
- rvense 3y ago> The only difference now is that “preventing” climate change is a huge industry. Eh, causing it is in fact a much, much bigger industry.
- mrguyorama 3y agoSeriously the people who say "there is money to be made by lying about climate change" and then pointing to the few millions of dollars available in public research into climate and NOT the trillions of dollars from multiple countries in selling energy in the form of carbon bonds are just goofy. These are the kind of people that had to cheat off you to pass biology yet insist that "the immune system works like this"
- sydbarrett74 3y agoOf course climate has changed in the past, but over geological time scales. We're witnessing change in real time, over a period of decades. It's the rate of change in climate that is accelerating.