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This is possibly one of the dumbest boomer memes I've seen.
Generally, Climate Change is talking about large scale system-level threats. Now, I'm willing to bet there might be some Watermellons talking about stupid unrelated shit like that weird insulation movement in Britain, but I don't ever really here anyone who actually knows anything about the climate talking about heat deaths.
My link didn't come up with anything: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62113-0/fulltext
I'm not really clear about these numbers, or how they would be effected by Covid, because that doesn't seem relevant.
I would say that Heat Stroke is far more dangerous than freezing because it can come out of absolutely no where if you haven't been properly drinking water, and by the time you're effected by it, you are effectively too incapacitated to cool yourself off.
Heat waves have a nasty habit of killing a lot of people when people aren't ready for it. I think one infamous case in the 1970's lead to the deaths of nearly 150 people in the city of Chicago as the heat got too much for elderly people in tenement buildings, and electrical demand caused grids to fail, creating a loss of AC for entire buildings worth of people. This then caused hundreds to die.
It's possible that Spain is much more used & prepared to deal with extreme temperatures, as they have a culture that's been dealing with it for over 1000 years. On of the reasons Siestas exist is because you really do have to stop working if the temperature in the afternoon has climbed to 125 F. This is effectively like a cultural defense mechanism. Similar to how, I'm not kidding, the Romans discovered pants being used by barbarians in the north of Europe. When living in cold, wet, forested, hilly, climates: pants are preferable to togas and robes.
By contrast, when you're not prepared for a cold snap (like Texas wasn't), you could end up with all sorts of additional problems that even northern states don't face, like damaged infrastructure that wasn't properly insulated for cold temperatures.
In fact, someone who is a climate activist could completely turn this graph around on you and point out that the issue is about changing climates, not just that literally every spot on the earth is always going to be warmer. They would tell you, accurately, that no one actually claims this as an effect of climate change.
Thing is, this graph and source don't make any sense, so I can't point anything out about this.
No it is not. There is 0 scientific basis to claim that climate change will bring about ANY negative effects except for a very very slow and gradual rise in the sea level.
All the shit about desertification and all that - total bullshit that exists only in media doomsaying, not scientific studies.
That's complete and total bullshit. Cold kills 20x more than heat. The reason is that heat stroke is VERY EASY to avoid. It's almost impossible unless you are going out of your way to do hard physical labor in the hot sun. All societies which have these conditions already know not to do that. That's why mexicans have the "siesta", for example.
Nope. Heat kills jack shit next to snowstorms. Heat does NOTHING to you in an air conditioned car or building. A snow storm can trap your car and kill you very easily with very little you can do about it. Surviving a winter in a cold area is 100x harder than "surviving" a summer in a hot area.
The Texas power grid was fine when it ran on fossil fuels years ago. It ONLY got fucked up recently because of the HUGE transition to wind power, which ate shit and failed during the snowstorm. And no, "weatherizing" wind turbines is not good enough. It's very expensive and it greatly reduces the power they generate regardless. Wind power is just shitty when it snows.
All the libtard media LIED about why Texas ate shit, but the truth was that so much coal and natural gas had been taken offline in recent years and replaced by wind, that there was very little margin for error or slack left in the system if wind failed.
No, they could not.
"climate change" is just a misnomer for GLOBAL WARMING. No "climate change" activist is arguing anything other than "global warming is caused by human CO2 emissions". That's their whole position. They only switched the name in a cynical attempt to be able to lie and say dumb shit like that snowstorms were caused by "climate change" to deceive idiots.
Yes, that is exactly what they are arguing. Obviously the earth is not a uniform temperature, but climate change shills argue that the GLOBAL temperatures are going to go UP, EVERYWHERE. None of them argue that there are safe islands where global warming isn't going to happen.
I'm highlighting this comment because of how fucking dangerous it is. Heat waves have long been understood to be dangerous, and have led to people dying. That's why you're supposed to check on your fucking elderly neighbors, and there's a real risk of the power grid failing due to demand.
You don't need to be doing hard labor to suffer heat stroke, you just need to be not drinking enough water, and not be cooling yourself regularly. I've had to drag my family members in from the outside from cutting grass because I noticed that they were starting to get heat-sick because they weren't drinking fucking water.
It's particularly dangerous in cities with public housing tenements.
Saying heat does nothing because of AC is equally as stupid as saying cold does nothing because of internal heating (which has existed longer than AC).
I'll deal with the other comments without quotes because they get annoying.
Yes, Climate Change does talk about system level threats whether you think it's evidenced or not.
As for whether or not it's evidenced, it is, and you are just wrong.
Climate Change is a more accurate term for "global warming" because global warming is a misnomer because too many people... like you... assume that what that means is that every single person's temperature is universally going to raise, despite the fact that there has NEVER been any scientific basis for that claim, and no one actually involved in the science makes that claim because it's asinine. Once again, the thing that is warming is the average planetary air premature, which I will remind you is around 51 F. That increasing by 3-6 degrees is the explanation for the wider climatological effects.
Yes, that includes desertification, and that also includes a reduction in Tundra, which happens to be economically benefiting Canada. Some places may also experience cooling due to climatalogical shifts. There's no suggestion that it's going to happen yet, but one example would be the Atlantic Conveyor Belt no longer moving warm water northwards, which would dramatically cool northern Europe, and make the UK & Germany as cold as Canada. That would still be Climate Change that would be the result of the warming of the average global temperature.
The cold snap in Texas would still have been a cold snap regardless of how much of the electrical grid was still using fossil fuels. I'm talking about the fact that they were still unprepared for the cold snap. For example, many roads were slippery and impassible because there was no salt. Instead they had to use some weird combination of beat juice to de-ice some of the roads. I have family that live there and were very entertained by the comical insanity of Texans being exposed to snow and ice, and flailing wildly in their response.
I fucking said that.
What an odd thing to say! CO2 is more or less uniformly distributed in the atmosphere, so to a first-order approximation you would, indeed, expect the temperature of every place on earth to go up uniformly. That's the basis of the Arrhenius model that started all this off about a century ago. Of course Ninos/Ninas/AMO/PMOs will modify this, so no one really expects a uniform increase in temperature.
Also: "Climate Change" is in no way a more accurate term for "global warming" -- it's merely unfalsifiable. Since you're on KIA2, you obviously understand that the left uses language as a cudgel. "Climate Change" is simply a strategy to force people to say... 'well, okay, obviously there's climate change going on, but how much of it is attributable to CO2?' -- this makes it seem like us deniers are conceding the point at the outset.
And: If you're going to quote temperatures, you're probably better off using Kelvin, so that people understand that we're looking at a potential change of 2K against a background of 280K.
And you would be wrong at every point. Fucking gravity isn't distributed uniformly across the Earth. Why would an atmospheric gas effected by wind be uniformly distrusted?
Worse, this is a nonsensical idea because even if we take the most reductive analysis of how greenhouse gasses work, we accept that light gets reflected into the earth from the atmosphere, and water holds heat. But primarily, all the heat is coming from light.
Is light uniformly distributed across the Earth?
No.
So then there would be no reason to assume heat increases would be uniformly distributed.
It's not unfalsifiable. It's just true. Those are two different things, and it's why scientists look at Climate Skeptics like crazy people because arguments like "humans can't effect the climate" are preposterous, considering we know non-human animals and plants can effect climates; and arguments like "the Climate's always changing" is asinine, because of course it is, it's just that the rate of change now is far faster than in all other instances outside mass extinction events. It's as if billions of humans, putting out large quantities of greenhouse gasses, and terraforming the planet, might have an effect on Climate.
One of those effects is an increase in the average planetary air temperature.
No one cares what you think. This is part of the problem. The political Left don't give a shit what you think you are or are not conceding because they want power, and don't care what your rhetoric is. Scientists don't care what you are conceding because you are simply wrong.
If you are against the Left's anti-nuclear policies because "radiation doesn't exist", Leftists don't care because you're their enemy, and scientists don't care why you think something completely wrong.
Unfortunately, this means there's no way to have meeting of the minds on this. The Left, don't want to, and Scientists, frankly, don't really want to waste time having to explain to you shit that they have evidenced and documented for decades, only for you to reject it because you don't understand it and don't care to.
This is why a scientist would think you're a fucking idiot, and won't talk to you.
Picking a different unit means nothing. Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, British Thermal Units, Joules, Calories. Hell, make up your own fucking unit of measurement and just give us the conversion factor. You know what? Fuck it. It's a change in energy! Measure it in fucking Work.
It's literally irrelevant.