Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather

Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by Gareth321 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:43PM (#37458137)

Famine in Africa is an existential risk with or without global warming. Currently 822 million people are estimated to be malnourished. As per the citations above, global warming will provide only a slightly elevated risk of famine relative to present day.

Overpopulation in Africa is a problem to be solved either way. Ameliorating global warming won’t make any meaningful improvement to that.

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Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by thinkingtoilet on Sunday September 10, 2023 @05:51PM (#37460446)

I genuinely don't understand how your comment is a response to mine. Where are we going to move the billions of people living in coastal South East Asia when oceans rise and their land becomes un-farmable due to climate change?

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Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by Gareth321 on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:05AM (#37466655)

Rising oceans aren’t going to make coastal areas in Asia uninhabitable for any appreciable proportion of people for centuries. Asia has huge tracts of unused land. Over the centuries, people will migrate.

I tried to explain to you that overpopulation has almost nothing to do with global warming, and conflating the two diminishes our ability to solve each.

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