World Not Ready For Rise In Extreme Heat, Scientists Say (barrons.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/1612225/world-not-ready-for-rise-in-extreme-heat-scientists-say
- Source link: https://www.barrons.com/news/world-not-ready-for-rise-in-extreme-heat-scientists-say-7e1c9a16
> Demand for cooling will "drastically" increase in giant countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria, where hundreds of millions of people lack air conditioning or other means of beating the heat. But even a moderate increase in hotter days could have a "severe impact" in nations not used to such conditions like Canada, Russia and Finland, said scientists from the University of Oxford.
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> In a new study, they looked at different global warming scenarios to project how often people in future might experience temperatures considered uncomfortably hot or cold. They found "that the population experiencing extreme heat conditions is projected to nearly double" by 2050 if global average temperatures rise 2C above preindustrial times.
[1] https://www.barrons.com/news/world-not-ready-for-rise-in-extreme-heat-scientists-say-7e1c9a16
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> Back in the real world, anyone who knows about the "CO2 Global Warming" theory knows that it predicts most of the warming to happen in cold areas at night, so this is obvious nonsense.
Only for people with really simple minds. Things are a bit more complicated than that. You skipped over about 95% of the book and now think you understand the subject.
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> Only for people with really simple minds.
Gee, I guess the people at one of the world's top universities who gave me a science scholarship must have been impressed by my "really simple mind."
But back then "Climate Science" was the Special Ed of Physics.
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The media hyped a few proposals for "global cooling" at one point but it was never anything like a scientific consensus. The majority of scientific studies have always argued for net warming from carbon emissions going back to at least the 1970s.
Science can only work to explain what is and attempt to predict may happen. It does not propose policies to deal with what might happen. "Give the government more power" is hardly the only potential reaction to global warming, but it is a political reaction not a sc
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> The media hyped a few proposals for "global cooling" at one point but it was never anything like a scientific consensus.
It's truly bizarre that people think they can tell people who lived through events that those events didn't happen.
This can be solve with... more taxes! (Score:1)
As usual, the solution will be more taxes, more permits, more restrictions, and no way to know if the sacrifice was enough or even made a difference. What is the temperature to rise, and there is nothing we can do about it? What if an increase in temperature is actually beneficial for more people than the opposite?
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Better solution: Put 10000% tariffs on anything! That way, it will be all scorched earth and nobody left to care when it becomes bad.
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More taxes yes, that is inevitable for America. There is another way without more restrictions, that's a whole idea behind [1]abundance liberalism [theguardian.com].
That's been my argument for decades, even if the outcome doesn't change is that a huge sustained investment in the things climate change is asking for us will net us nothing but... a more robust and cheaper electrical grid, cleaner air, better and more reliable transportation choices, better buildings and homes and a ton of domestic economic growth as well as an op
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/what-is-abundance-liberalism
heat (Score:1)
Well its -12 deg outside with 15 inches of snow. I could use some record heat today...
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You really do not. But I guess you are not smart enough to understand that.
Duh (Score:2)
There are tons of cretins that are still denying it is even happening. Obviously the human race is not ready.
What this will eventually be is a global shake-out and those that can adapt will survive reasonably intact. The others will be wiped out or reduced to insignificance. Guess who will be on which side.
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AI is the new hotness and AI data centres can't be powered by solar panels and windmills. So "Climate Change" is done.
Not ready for extreme cold (Score:3)
We're not ready for extreme cold either.
Of course we're ready (Score:2, Insightful)
The billionaires have their Island bunkers and you and me have our culture War that we can argue about while fighting over water.
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This is why I live next to a great lake and learned how to purify and disinfect water in the boy scouts no fighting required.
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Brilliant! When there is no water, where do you think they'll go?
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so you learned to boil water and run it through a filter?
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I'm coming to your house when I run out of water.
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Authoritarians rely on ambivalence just as much as they rely on out and out supporters. This farcical stance of being above it all helps them more than you realize.
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It will be funny to see when they figure out their servants have families that need to survive too and that throwing money does not buy loyalty. Especially when that money stop being worth anything.
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They will return to serfdom. Workers will live on the property.
And Trump has his oil (Score:2)
Perhaps he thinks if the human race is going out we should go out in style - completely fuck the planet for millions of years by burning everything that can be sucked out of the ground.