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Global Warming If No Action Is Taken

  

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Via:  johnrussell  •  7 years ago  •  47 comments

Global Warming If No Action Is Taken

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The illustration shows the impact of global warming by the end of this century. Two hundred or more 95 + degree days every year throughout most of South America and Africa, half of Austrailia and India and southeast Asia would also experience extreme heat for seven or eight months a year. In the US, almost the entire nation would be facing 2 to 4 months of 95 degree heat daily, and in the southern half of the country it would be 3 to 6 months of constant overpowering daytime heat. A similar fate awaits much of Europe. 

Our grandchildren and great grandchildren will be alive in 2080 to 2099, is our legacy to them going to be to turn them into blistered tomatoes or dried up leather?

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/22/climate/95-degree-day-maps.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article


Things could get worse if countries fail to take action




If the world’s nations took no action on global warming, and emissions continued to rise at the same pace they did in the first decade of this century — with  total global warming of 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit or more  — extremely hot days would become much more commonplace



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JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago

 "In countries without widespread cooling, heat deaths rise more sharply during the hottest days. One study estimated  that heat deaths in India increase by 3.2 percent for every 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit above 68 (or every 1 degree Celsius above 20). Energy use in many countries may rise sharply as people struggle to adapt to a hotter climate.

Other scientists have found that corn and soybean yields in the United States  plummet precipitously  when temperatures rise above 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius), and that worker productivity  declines sharply , particularly for outdoor jobs. And researchers are trying to understand how  crime  and  conflict  might rise as temperatures increase.

Ultimately, people will be better able to adapt if they have a better idea of what individual cities and regions can expect, said Trevor Houser, who co-directs the Climate Impact Lab. In the United States, some urban planners  are already experimenting with techniques  like adding green spaces or increasing the reflectivity of rooftops to cool down city centers during heat waves.

“Right now, when you start talking to people about higher temperatures, they tend to think, great, more beach days,” said Solomon Hsiang, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley who helps direct the lab. “What’s often less appreciated is just how much an extremely hot day can distort our lives in all sorts of ways we don’t often even think about.”"

 

 
 
 
Dean Moriarty
Professor Quiet
link   Dean Moriarty    7 years ago

Not a problem we are moving on. 

Stephen Hawking: Earth is in peril, it's time to get out of Dodge

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Dean Moriarty   7 years ago

One good thing about global warming. It will create an exodus of the population back to the northern cities as people grow tired of baking in 100 degree heat for half their lives. 

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
link   Cerenkov  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Fortunately we have AC down here and nuclear plants to run it.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Cerenkov   7 years ago

Let's see how happy the 2099 generation is when they can't step outside half the year. They'd probably be ready to skin you alive. 

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
link   Cerenkov  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Good luck with that. If I'm still around in 2099, it will only be because I've turned into some sort of all powerful undead. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Cerenkov   7 years ago

I didn't think you cared about the coming generations. Now you have verified it. 

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
link   Cerenkov  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

Why should I care about them if they want to skin me alive? Clearly they are brutal monsters.

 
 
 
96WS6
Junior Quiet
link   96WS6  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

It's not Global Warming Anymore.  After it was proven the Earth is actually cooling they had to change it to "climate change"  to further the objective.   Why can't you people stick to your own narrative?

 

Oh and here is the info on the Earth cooling again from the NASA Earth Observatory in case you are interested in the truth.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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link   Perrie Halpern R.A.    7 years ago

This is a serious topic. Whether you believe that global warming is caused by man or not, it is happening. The only good news that I have heard is that the sun is going to be going through a cooling period. Let's hope it happens before the ice melts and we start to have another global dust bowl. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

Let's hope it happens before the ice melts and we start to have another global dust bowl.  - See more at:

 

Sounds like a plan. 

 
 
 
96WS6
Junior Quiet
link   96WS6  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Principal
link   Perrie Halpern R.A.    7 years ago

Your kids aren't dying though, their kids won't die of climate change, we are talking thousands of years maybe more before man makes that type of impact. That is hysterical to believe we are a generation from certain death or even a couple generations from the end of mankind. - See more at:

How do you know? What proof do you have? You claim that scientist have no proof, but neither do you. The fact is that the earth IS getting hotter. Why not take precautions? 

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
link   Cerenkov  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A.   7 years ago

If you find a mole on your leg, why not just amputate? Why take a chance?

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick    7 years ago

 
 

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