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average is an average, you're forgetting about extremes. it only takes a few days (or hours) of above wet bulb temperatures to kill humans who live in and arou
by baq 3y ago
average is an average, you're forgetting about extremes.
it only takes a few days (or hours) of above wet bulb temperatures to kill humans who live in and around the tropics today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
- trashtester 3y agoSo people will move out of those worst affected areas.
- baq 3y agoExactly. Hundreds of millions of them.
- trashtester 3y agoSure. That could happen. Or there could be wars/conflicts resulting in some of those not having anywhere to go. Still, this scenario is quite different from human extinction, which is what I was responding to further up.