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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by Arn_Thor on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:56AM (#21331504)
There are people who are alive today, and who won't be next year because of extreme weather events tied to climate change.

And that's before getting into real live issues to do with water rights, habitation, crop resilience to changing weather patterns, energy access and usage. These issues are likely to spark wars in our lifetime (if they haven't already.. Syria and the Arab Spring was tied to crop failures and high food prices). And these issues disproportionately affect the poor living today. Entirely aside from rising sea levels which will compound the damage

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by johnmorrison on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:47AM (#21332919)
I'm not sure this is true, at least not on net.

Do you have any scientific evidence showing a net global increase in extreme weather events in the last several decades?

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by Arn_Thor on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:59PM (#21340985)
It is true. "New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180321130859.h...
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by ncmncm on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:47PM (#21338824)
Have you even looked out the window, lately?
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by johnmorrison on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:23AM (#21343903)
Not all areas experience extreme weather. Where I live, there's basically no extreme weather ever.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by ncmncm on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:55AM (#21352020)
Lucky you. That experience does not generalize.
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