It won’t. Entire cities will be burning down, heatwave blackouts will be killing entire cities, there will be millions of “hurricane homeless” people squatting behind razor wire, food rioters being run over by tanks.
But this will all be declared perfectly normal by Fox news.
Ask the people who’ve already lost their homeowners insurance.
what time is it?
It’s already starting and will be exacerbated by politicians sitting on their hands until their own seats are too hot to sit on.
Great question!
Depends on how quickly we cut our emissions. See the IPCC goals of 50% by 2030 (simplified).
Global heating will continue to get worse until corrected. Looking at the future heat projections by IPCC and mapping by ClimateToolBox.org you can see the bottom quarter (simplified) of US hits roughly 40-60 days per year of heat index above 105 degrees in 20 years (ish). So those areas will be relatively uninhabitable compared to today.
If we cut our emissions we can change that.
Check out ClimateUnified.org for ideas on how to cut your and our collective emissions.
Inflation is already being pressured by climate change. I think all the homeless are already part of it. Collapse won’t just happen, things will gradually become unaffordable. Olive oil, quality chocolate and coffee are already going through that.
Did you see what happened to Connecticut yesterday? In other words it is already happening.
Civilisation will end in 2069
It’s a good question. I feel like the global tipping point is likely to be crop failures leading to massive food insecurity and from there global warfare over food supply. I think the US is somewhat insulated by wealth and geography from the initial impact, and daily life might not change until the first nuke is used. If that happens…maybe the cockroaches can build a better society than we could.
I think nothing will change much until there is some tipping point that makes quick changes.
If it gets a little hotter each year, we’ll just adjust. Kind of like how shootings aren’t a big deal anymore, we just adjusted to that new normal, as they became more and more common. “There was a shooting in (wherever) today. In other news, local sports team won!!”
We will see headlines like “100 people died of heatstroke in the south today from the latest heatwave. In other areas, the midwest will see showers, while the northeast should be cool and clear.”
We need somewhere to collapse for people to notice. My thinking is it will be some metro region. Phoenix will grow, and grow, until it will peak, then values will drop. So those that can move will flee to other areas, and values will drop even more. We’ll see the total collapse of some major metro area, and THAT will be the tipping point. (Whether its Phoenix, or Miami, or somewhere in Texas, I have no idea, but it will happen.)
When we keep a count of heat dome death like a hurricane
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May, 26th, 2028.
That’s just my guess.
It won’t. Entire cities will be burning down, heatwave blackouts will be killing entire cities, there will be millions of “hurricane homeless” people squatting behind razor wire, food rioters being run over by tanks.
But this will all be declared perfectly normal by Fox news.
Ask the people who’ve already lost their homeowners insurance.
what time is it?
It’s already starting and will be exacerbated by politicians sitting on their hands until their own seats are too hot to sit on.
Great question!
Depends on how quickly we cut our emissions. See the IPCC goals of 50% by 2030 (simplified).
Global heating will continue to get worse until corrected. Looking at the future heat projections by IPCC and mapping by ClimateToolBox.org you can see the bottom quarter (simplified) of US hits roughly 40-60 days per year of heat index above 105 degrees in 20 years (ish). So those areas will be relatively uninhabitable compared to today.
If we cut our emissions we can change that.
Check out ClimateUnified.org for ideas on how to cut your and our collective emissions.
Inflation is already being pressured by climate change. I think all the homeless are already part of it. Collapse won’t just happen, things will gradually become unaffordable. Olive oil, quality chocolate and coffee are already going through that.
Did you see what happened to Connecticut yesterday? In other words it is already happening.
Civilisation will end in 2069
It’s a good question. I feel like the global tipping point is likely to be crop failures leading to massive food insecurity and from there global warfare over food supply. I think the US is somewhat insulated by wealth and geography from the initial impact, and daily life might not change until the first nuke is used. If that happens…maybe the cockroaches can build a better society than we could.
I think nothing will change much until there is some tipping point that makes quick changes.
If it gets a little hotter each year, we’ll just adjust. Kind of like how shootings aren’t a big deal anymore, we just adjusted to that new normal, as they became more and more common. “There was a shooting in (wherever) today. In other news, local sports team won!!”
We will see headlines like “100 people died of heatstroke in the south today from the latest heatwave. In other areas, the midwest will see showers, while the northeast should be cool and clear.”
We need somewhere to collapse for people to notice. My thinking is it will be some metro region. Phoenix will grow, and grow, until it will peak, then values will drop. So those that can move will flee to other areas, and values will drop even more. We’ll see the total collapse of some major metro area, and THAT will be the tipping point. (Whether its Phoenix, or Miami, or somewhere in Texas, I have no idea, but it will happen.)
When we keep a count of heat dome death like a hurricane