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LetMeEatCake ,

Every time I see crazy heat data for Arizona and other places like it in the US, it makes me wonder. When the fuck will we see a reversion of population trends of people moving south? Arizona, Texas, etc. are only going to get worse. Everywhere is going to get worse, but there’s a lot of rapidly growing areas that are on track to be non-viable for 1/3+ of the year within 10-20 years.

People should not be moving to Arizona, not with climate change as it is.

Izzent ,
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The people who move south are the same people who don’t believe in science. So they have it coming. It’s actually good for the country.

zucky ,

In 2030s, everyone would probably start moving to Canada

Kecessa ,

We’ll reach 100m by 2100 and it won’t be an evil plan or anything, just people forcing their way through the border because they can’t live down south anymore.

FlyingSquid ,
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I don’t know that the northern U.S. will be that great either in the summer. I’m in Indiana and it’s been in the 90s for weeks. When I was a kid, it was a day here or there in the 90s.

Catoblepas ,

I live in the southwest and it’s definitely something I worry about. Every year it gets worse in our apartment during the summer. Our cooling bill is ridiculous for ~1/3rd of the year. The amount of heat transfer coming in through our single pane windows is insane. The walls barely seem insulated at all. On most hot days (95F/36C+) with the A/C blasting we can’t get it below 80F/26C inside.

Laws where I live require only minimum temperatures that must be met by residences, not maximums; almost nobody is freezing to death here (very rarely someone unhoused will), but people ARE dying of heat related illnesses. It makes me so angry, not only because it’s miserable to be hot all day and expensive to run the A/C as hard as we do, but because it’s so wasteful. The amount of electricity we have to use because our landlord is some bean counting, soulless corporation is sickening.

skillissuer ,

cover your windows with aluminum foil. you’ll thank me later

WhipperSnapper ,
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Also, the lizard people won’t steal your thoughts, so that’s a bonus!

Catoblepas ,

I’ve invested in heat reducing window film and it’s still this bad! 😔

skillissuer ,

most of solar energy comes in as visible light, does it reflect it?

Catoblepas ,

Yup, it lets some light in but it’s supposed to reflect 99% of UV and 70% of the total light. I also keep the blinds down all day, I don’t think it makes a big difference but I figure it can’t hurt.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Texas would be fine. They got the engineering talent and energy to get around it. Which they won’t because it’s Texas.

Jeff ,

Yup. We moved from Texas now to be not there in 10 years when bad becomes doom.

hglman ,

It’s not on a happy trajectory; I also moved away.

Goodie ,

Only another 100 years or so until maybe temperatures come back down.

Maybe.

Butters ,
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Once we are all dead and can no longer emit carbon dioxide?

Mediocre_Bard ,

No, there is a definite decomposition process that will see some heavy emissions.

Goodie ,

Fortunately no. (Maybe fortunately).

The last IPCC climate change report predicted that shits gonna get real fucking bad for a while, but at the rate we’re going it should at least turn around sometime between 80 to 100 years.

there1snospoon ,

Is there feasibly anything we can do to shorten that time? Even if it’s on a catastrophic/behemoth level of change/effort? Or is this just how it is?

Goodie ,

The obvious answer is yes.

We could shut of all fossil fuel usage tomorrow except for where it’s needed (eg a single generator to kick start a countries power grid if things actually go down) and make a painful hard switch to renewables. We could begin using renewable energy sources to start extracting CO2 from the atmosphere.

I don’t know and can’t speak to how effective that would be, from memory the earth would continue to warm for some time to come even on their optimistic predictions.

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Thekingoflorda ,
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lol, forgot to add a check to rule out tweets.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Oh look you can block bots

Thekingoflorda ,
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Yea, why would that not be possible?

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