It's relatively simple (though not necessarily easy) to live in a cold area if you have access to furs and fuel. Trying to survive in an area where the wet bulb temperature is over 35 degrees will require reliable air conditioning and working outside will become virtually impossible for humans.
> Edit: on a side note the reason why your proposal will never work is because cutting o. emissions s it's actually easy. For example let's stop keeping let's at home. Pets that usually eat a lot of red meat. It is feasible, won't lower living standards and won't cost much to society. Now convince people that their cat eats more meat in a year than a Chinese average person and that's not sustainable.
That reads as gibberish.
there must be a reason why the coldest areas on the Planet are deserted...
> Trying to survive in an area where the wet bulb temperature is over 35 degrees
And yet ancient Egyptians did it 4 thousands years ago.
> That reads as gibberish
My phone has an Italian dictionary. Fixed it.
Have you any evidence of Egypt having those kinds of wet bulb temperatures back then? It's physically impossible to survive high wet bulb temperatures even with an unlimited supply of water without some other form of cooling (i.e. not based on air movement such as fans) as water/sweat evaporation isn't effective.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature:
> Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (131 °F). A reading of 35 °C (95 °F) – equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) – is considered the theoretical human survivability limit for up to six hours of exposure.
The Ancient Egyptian Kingdom covered the north eastern section of the Sahara Desert, one of the driest hottest places in the world.
Summers were hot and long, and the average temperature in June, July and August was 35 degrees. Winters were short and warm and their was little rainfall.
The summer, also known as Shemu, lasted from May to September. This was the period when the level of the Nile was low.
The temperature during Shemu ranged between 86 degrees Fahrenheit and 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The north recorded high temperatures swelling to 122 degrees Fahrenheit during the daytime. The nighttime experienced a massive temperature change. It dropped to around 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is basic knowledge we learn in primary school.
You are also wrongly assuming that there will be areas where the temperature will rise to unsustainable bulb temperatures, but what's happening is that the change in temperatures is driving cold winds where there were none before.
Also, to close the argument, even CDC says that cold is the real killer
CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics Compressed Mortality Database, which is based on death certificates, indicates that twice as many people die of “excessive cold” conditions in a given year than of “excessive heat.” According to a 2014 study by the CDC, approximately 1,300 deaths per year from 2006 to 2010 were coded as resulting from extreme cold exposure, and 670 deaths per year from extreme heat
We are talking about few hubdreds a year, nothing so catastrophic that will eventually wipe out entire civilizations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
> The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked (water at ambient temperature) cloth (a wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed. At 100% relative humidity, the wet-bulb temperature is equal to the air temperature (dry-bulb temperature); at lower humidity the wet-bulb temperature is lower than dry-bulb temperature because of evaporative cooling.
Lower down the doom-splaining, please.
Doomerism is dangerous because makes people believe there's nothing we can do or that we can only take extreme measures or, even worse, that we all are personally responsible.
It is completely false and the only thing this attitude is good for is scare kids on tik tok and get views.
Have you got evidence of climate change causing those kinds of wet bulb temperatures in large populated areas?
> One 2015 study concluded extremes are likely to approach and exceed 35C in the region around the Arabian Gulf towards the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in, posing questions for human habitability there.
> In 2020, research found that some coastal subtropical locations have already experienced WBTs of 35C, albeit only for a few hours.
> “Previous studies projected that this would happen several decades from now, but this shows it’s happening right now,” said lead author Colin Raymond, a climate scientist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The times these events last will increase and the areas they affect will grow in direct correlation with global warming.”
> The study also found that globally, the number of times that a WBT of 30C was reached – still considered an extreme humidity and heat event – more than doubled between 1979 and 2017. There were about 1,000 occurrences of a 31C WBT, and about a dozen above 35C, in Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Australia.
There's some recent information and investigation here too https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interacti...
But, more importantly,
The oft-cited 35C value comes from a 2010 theoretical study.
Simply put: nobody knows the real threshold and nobody put it to test.
I'm no denier in any way, but doom prophecies are usually wrong, they are used to scare people into action, but are based on the idea that nothing changes.
For example, planting trees is effective against heat waves, it's cheap and it's being done extensively, everywhere you look
China will aim to plant and conserve 70 billion trees by 2030 as part of the global tree movement
I agree about tree planting being a sensible precaution to take - preventing sun from reflecting off tarmac and concrete is going to help at least a bit as well as the other benefits.
No, it won't as bad.
Doomerism is not a valid rational point of view.
Most of all, floods would happen anyway, so you'll have floods + lower standards of living, including much worse emergency services.