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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by baq on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:16PM (#40369731)
average is an average, you're forgetting about extremes.

it only takes a few days (or hours) of above wet bulb temperatures to kill humans who live in and around the tropics today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by trashtester on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:59PM (#40370272)
So people will move out of those worst affected areas.
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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by baq on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @02:10PM (#40370388)
Exactly. Hundreds of millions of them.
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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by trashtester on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @05:18PM (#40372473)
Sure. That could happen. Or there could be wars/conflicts resulting in some of those not having anywhere to go.

Still, this scenario is quite different from human extinction, which is what I was responding to further up.

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