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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by throwawaylolx on Saturday May 09, 2020 @06:12AM (#23123501)
>I am scared. Really scared.

May be from reading too many scare-mongering alarmist articles like the one in OP where the usual quantitative terms that are supposed to be present in the abstract are replaced with "much lower", "serious health and productivity impacts", "dangerously high", "serious challenge", etc.

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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by vwcx on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:07AM (#23124400)
I understand what you're saying about the hyperbole, but we're also at the point where there are multiple, overlapping problems of a very serious nature to a species with 7.8 billion beings sharing a planet. The hyperbole isn't useful, but the larger idea that the time to act IS NOW shouldn't be diminished.
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