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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by tessierashpool on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:35AM (#28138398)
there was an article during the recent Oregon heat wave by someone who moved to the PNW as a hedge against climate change. that heat wave killed almost 200 people and is estimated to have killed a billion marine animals.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/08/pacific-nort...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/08/heat-dom...

Migration is not going to cut it. Climate change is making weather more chaotic and unpredictable. Escape is impossible. The only place you can go where the planetary weather system’s disintegration does not pose a danger is space, where the absence of that same disintegrating weather system makes survival even harder.

Reversal is the only option.

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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by nostrademons on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:25AM (#28138709)
No place is going to be safe, but some places are going to be a lot safer than others. The PNW or Canada is a lot better bet than the Middle East or Bangladesh.

Reversal is not really an option either; the best scientific evidence I've seen is that we've already past several tipping points that will accelerate warming regardless of what we do, and even if we haven't, we've had about zero decrease in worldwide CO2 emissions and a terrible track record in getting humanity to work together for common good.

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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by alexose on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:44AM (#28138463)
A million times this. It's important that everyone know that there's nowhere left to move to in order to continue ignoring the problem.
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