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Predicting how the gravity interacts on just 3 bodies is a very hard problem. Now we are dealing with a very complex system (not just the climate one) with a lo
by gmuslera 29d ago
Predicting how the gravity interacts on just 3 bodies is a very hard problem. Now we are dealing with a very complex system (not just the climate one) with a lot of pieces, interactions, feedback loops, and not yet known important components. From now to 2050 there is a lot of space for white and black swans.
The question here is not if it will surely happen, but if we keep doing what we are doing worth the risk, and that risk should not be measured just by raw amount of anonymous deaths.
Personally, I don't feel comfortable pushing a system with so many positive feedback loops on warming, some even recently discovered. Then that has been a major factor in the process of disruption or change on some used-to-be-stable features of our climate system, like the polar vortex, gulf stream, and maybe El Niño, And then there are not properly evaluated fragility in the food production system, global distribution, economy, politics and society/culture. The pieces are there, will they ensemble in the worst way. I suppose that in hindsight it will become evident, but then there will be nothing to do.
- bulbar 28d agoIn Germany this summer, we hit 40+ degree celsius (105 fahrenheit) multiple times, first time in June where August is deemed to be the hottest month. 30/85 degree used to be considered hot a few years ago, now I was super happy when temperature dropped down to it. Even at night it wouldn't cool down to roughly 18/65 as was normal my whole life. ACs were famously not at all wide spread in Europe. This is rapidly changing now, people buying them like crazy. Pretty sure it will be normalized in higher income household in just 5 years. The world is knee deep in the process. If that's only the early beginning, we are all in for a wild ride.
- gmuslera 28d agomitigation for high income households, assuming that there are no blackouts, and that AC can keep working at whatever peek temperatures is reached. Even for a relative minority things may not be safe even in first world countries