Parts of the world not-so-slowly becoming uninhabitable due to heat. Unstoppable migration

Sure, in the short-term and in certain regions. But your own linked Lancet paper states:

The results indicate that global warming might slightly reduce the net temperature-related deaths, although, in the long run, climate change is expected to increase mortality burden.

Studies like these also don’t account for mortality resulting from wildfires, floods, droughts, crop failures and extreme weather, all of which are expected to increase in frequency with global warming.

But rather than cherry-picking locations, let’s look at a region that is directly relevant to Americans. Excess mortality due to climate change is accelerating in Central America. https://www.ifrc.org/press-release/deadly-heatwaves-central-america-35-times-more-likely-because-climate-change-and-four

Warming temps are not just directly killing people, but also causing crop failures and extreme weather, all of which contribute to the social instability that drug gangs take advantage of. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/honduras-migration-climate-change/

The long-term solution to the refugee problem coming from the south is to mitigate climate change. Otherwise we are going to need a bigger army who is willing to shoot unarmed, starving refugees.

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In this debate, two halves won’t make a whole.

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Many are expressing anxiety as temperatures are forecast to soar past 95 degrees this week in Paris, as the Olympic Games get underway. [from the link]

I can’t for the life of me believe that they planned the summer olympics games in Paris in August. Have you ever been to Paris in August? For one thing, there’s nobody there, they all leave because it’s too damn hot.

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Alvin Toffler predicted this in 1970.

Let’s hope the Canadians don’t come to a similar conclusion when Americans start moving north!

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You mean Alaska? Why would the Canadians worry about that?

Technically, Detroit is north of Windsor, Ontario.

Steve

Global warming is real…full stop. It will impact humans…full stop.

To suggest that all is well with current emissions and standards is bonkers.

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