Dust storm in Arizona.
Fitting, considering how many people there are actively supportive of the Christian Taliban.
This from a kid from Texas. Is he insensible to the notable advantage of “a dry heat”?
Well, that’s the scariest scenario I’ve ever read.
Humans: Look, a squirrel.
I, for one, will posthumously welcome our new squirrel overlords.
That’s a neat trick!
And those will be 6 feet tall Arctic rain forest squirrels with huge ears for heat dissipation.
life endured mean annual temperatures of 23–29 degrees Celsius (73–84 degrees Fahrenheit)
Sounds pretty comfortable to me. We’ve been having lows in the 70s and highs in the 90s and I’m loving it. Very low risk of frostbite and hypothermia under those conditions. (Of course they won’t last, winter will be brutal.) I’d be more scared of warnings that there’s another ice age coming.
over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit)
That might be a bit uncomfortable, but we can build underground and we’ve invented air conditioning. The real problems from that would be sociopolitical and economic, since the rich could easily solve the problem but wouldn’t want to share.
Air conditioning. That thing that’s been broken in my apartment all summer and I can’t get a repair person in because they’re all booked up? That air conditioning?
Also, building underground assumes we have time to build underground before the shit hits the fan – and that there aren’t any further impacts to things like air quality which would require even more infrastructure changes.
The highest skyscrapers in my neck of the woods are ~80 stories. It’s going to be hard to fit all that square footage underground.
Fortunately, we’ve depleted the water tables enough that building underground won’t run into flooding problems too much.
(For certain definitions of the term “fortunate”)
Needs more “hothouse”
blame the chinese
Interesting point about the PETM: