How long will it be until it's too hot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't worry. The rich will be fine.

This. In DC, it might be like NC or Georgia, plus more frequent brutally hot spells. But we have AC, and especially for those of us who work inside, it will be an annoyance.

The people who really will suffer are subsistence farmers in India and Subsaharan Africa, who will starve, and those in Bangladesh, who will be flooded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like if anything it would be like FL here in the DMV. Not somewhere uninhabitable.

You're right. Luckily our area won't feel the worst of climate change. People in the tropics are already feeling it, and they contributed little to the emissions which caused the increase in temps. It's truly tragic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of scientists are actually alarmed, OP. I’ve heard that there’s already enough CO2 in the atmosphere that even if we stop all emissions right now, the global warming process will keep going.

That’s so sad. I remember when that was only a possibility.

Yes, scientists and policy makers say that the changes we're seeing are off the charts and worse than any of the predictions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of scientists are actually alarmed, OP. I’ve heard that there’s already enough CO2 in the atmosphere that even if we stop all emissions right now, the global warming process will keep going.

It’s definitely too late to stop the warming. Just this past weekend a guy burst into flames standing in front of some building!

[Anonymous]

It’s the people who think climate change is dramatically impacting the weather they experience this year or last year or the next year that are the anti-science crew.

The science says it’s more like boiling a frog. And just because it was really hot this summer or we had a warmer winter doesn’t mean anything. It’s about average global temperature change over time. It’s sort of hyperbolic to start talking about “well it was 97 this year so by 2027 we are going to be in a lot of trouble.”

It’s stuff like that this that makes the climate change case lose so much credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of scientists are actually alarmed, OP. I’ve heard that there’s already enough CO2 in the atmosphere that even if we stop all emissions right now, the global warming process will keep going.

If the increase continues at its present rate, within a few hundred years the average surface temperature on earth in the middle latitudes (between 20-40 degrees north and south of the equator) will be sufficient to melt lead and types of metals.

That’s Venus-like conditions.


So sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the people who think climate change is dramatically impacting the weather they experience this year or last year or the next year that are the anti-science crew.

The science says it’s more like boiling a frog. And just because it was really hot this summer or we had a warmer winter doesn’t mean anything. It’s about average global temperature change over time. It’s sort of hyperbolic to start talking about “well it was 97 this year so by 2027 we are going to be in a lot of trouble.”

It’s stuff like that this that makes the climate change case lose so much credibility.

That’s not what climate scientists are saying/why they are sounding the alarms. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/07/opinions/climate-scientist-scare-doom-anxiety-mcguire/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/30/climate-emergency-scientists-declaration/
Recent news/talk is that climate scientists might have been too conservative.

[Anonymous]

I think we need to move underground, like Hobbit Houses. It's cooler, and would protect us from severe storms, but would it work in a fire or be like an oven?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Austin. We will likely have more than 60 days over 100 this summer. Never happened before. It is miserable.

wow, I lived in Austin about a decade ago and experienced Austin's first summer of 30 days of over 100. I was pregnant that summer, it was miserable. 60 days of over 100? I can't imagine.