Re:Melting ice reveals two-million-year old peat
by blueflow on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:42PM
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> So is everything fine until Earth becomes Venus?
From Wikipedia[1]:
> The IPCC states that "a 'runaway greenhouse effect'—analogous to [that of] Venus—appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities."
> At 35C in India - it's believed even healthy young people can die in just 6 hours of exposure.
Yet people somehow still survive in the Sahara at higher temperatures.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
Re:Melting ice reveals two-million-year old peat
by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:43PM
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Way less humidity. Look up wet bulb effect.
A decent chunk of the Earth's landmass (where a TON of people currently live) is going to get pretty bad if temperatures rise 3C.
At 35C in India - it's believed even healthy young people can die in just 6 hours of exposure.
This will happen regularly if temperatures rise 3C.
India will be home to maybe 2B in 2050 - when many climate projections say this will happen.
I'm optimistic we won't reach 3C of warming by 2050. But it seems within reason that it could happen.