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Unclear. Maybe things are going to get better; it's happened before right?
It hasn't been all bad news lately, too. If you're not straight, cis, or from the the West, being a boomer wasn't such a great deal.
not what we've done to the ecosystem. we're in entirely uncharted territory.
That's true, at least in our tenure as a species. We can project where it's going pretty well, though, and assuming your kids aren't in a Dhaka slum they'll be 'ight, if deprived of the opportunity to ever see coral reefs and with higher bills and taxes to compensate for the weather.
you're an optimist.
we're all going to cook, it's just a matter of how long it'll take to catch up to you.
we're gonna cook because some fucks said "I don't care, I want more money."
The science says we might see 4 degrees ultimately. That amounts to more severe weather of all kinds, and means a higher increase in places which will lose snow cover, but it's nothing an AC unit and careful emergency planning can't handle, and it won't necessarily harm agriculture more than it helps it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c166xxd4y36o
this is how hot it is today. add 4c average warming, and these spikes will be even higher and more lethal. people are dying in this heat today.
lol, when everyone cranks their ac and the grid blows, good luck with that.
stick your head back in the sand.
Generators, batteries, just a better grid. If it happened tomorrow it would be scary, but it will be gradual. Really poor people in vulnerable areas might not have the option to adapt, which I mentioned, but the average Lemming does.
Is dying your retirement plan or something? I'm not the one contradicting the experts here.
it's happening NOW.
buildout all the grid you can, it won't be enough for everyone, and when it collapses, everyone's fucked.
Did your parents have any children that lived? I bet they regret that.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/potentially-record-breaking-heat-wave-180834697.html
stick your head back in the sand and stop replying if you can't support your argument.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00239-4
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/european-heat-deaths_n_6798bfe6e4b0e3bbf46ca2ad
https://www.newsweek.com/extreme-heat-killing-more-americans-ever-1811274
https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/extreme-heat-is-a-killer-a-recent-heat-wave-shows-how-much-more-deadly-its-becoming/1792817
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/report-extreme-heat-us-climate-crisis_n_61313a6ce4b0df9fe273debf