Goodbye, Paris

[Black Aeronaut]

vorticity wrote:

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Black Aeronaut wrote:

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Because WE DIDN'T EVOLVE IN THOSE CONDITIONS.

I mean, really. 20 degrees CELSIUS hotter than what we normally
experience now. Nowhere on Earth gets that ungodly hot
now.

Well, um, places get pretty hot.  My father is from Yuma, so
I'd know.  But the majority of warming should happen in the high
latitudes.  Most regions around the equator will simply evaporate more
water to cool the surface.
We didn't evolve in those conditions isn't a strong argument against anthropogenic climate change IMO.   No, the Persian Gulf won't be uninhabitable by the end of the century.  

My apologies.  I got the idea of 'average temperature' stuck in my head as a localized thing.  As you folks know, the city of San Antonio has a much higher average than the rest of the world in general.  See, the rest of the world's average is at about 15c.  But in San Antonio?  Try 20.4c.  And then the idea of that yearly average temperature jumping to 40c?  That's quite frightening, to be honest.
http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/sa ... 200/2017/1
You see, you have to keep in mind that that's an AVERAGE temperature.  And while 40c doesn't sound all that horrible, you're still not seeing all the highs and lows that go into that average.  Our yearly average high temperature is a very comfy 26.6c.  But again, that's also an average that's taking all the highest daily temperature readings for both Summer and Winter and everything in between.

The average high readings here in the months of July and August is 34.8c.  Raise your average temperatures by 20c?  Shit starts to get scary now.  Places on Earth where it actually gets that hot don't happen to have much in the way of flora or fauna.  Or water.

Now, I'll gladly admit that I'm just spitballing here, but I don't believe that I'm terribly far off the mark, either.  Because of geography and thousands of other tiny factors, some places will get a lot hotter than others.  But here?  In my home?  I don't think we're gonna be one of the paradises left in the wake of a 20c warm up.

Vorticity, please feel free to correct me if needs be.