Good sweet Christ, harley, do you ever read my posts? I never said humankind as a species was unable to adjust. I said our civilization was in trouble. If waters rise enough, we sink nearly every major city in the world. If fertile areas shift, we make major changes in geopolitics. If the Gulf Stream moves, the UK drops into the deep freeze and current crops become more difficult to grow. Insects move into areas for which there are no defenses against them; animals migrate or die out (and some of them are in fact unable to adapt); weather patterns become more severe, and we get more Katrinas wiping out cities and infrastructure – what’s so hard about this?
And your point about range is irrelevant. Study a bit more about statistics. The average difference between now and the last Ice Age was only a couple of degrees – but there is variation everywhere. And what we are seeing is a rise in the average, which includes higher highs, too.
I live in Boston, where we get more range than most of the country. But there are significant numbers of people here who have no air conditioning, because we did not need it. If temperatures go up enough, people die. No exaggeration - it’s happened during other heat waves.
Good sweet Christ, harley, do you ever read my posts? I never said humankind as a species was unable to adjust. I said our civilization was in trouble. If waters rise enough, we sink nearly every major city in the world. If fertile areas shift, we make major changes in geopolitics. If the Gulf Stream moves, the UK drops into the deep freeze and current crops become more difficult to grow. Insects move into areas for which there are no defenses against them; animals migrate or die out (and some of them are in fact unable to adapt); weather patterns become more severe, and we get more Katrinas wiping out cities and infrastructure – what’s so hard about this? And your point about range is irrelevant. Study a bit more about statistics. The average difference between now and the last Ice Age was only a couple of degrees – but there is variation everywhere. And what we are seeing is a rise in the average, which includes higher highs, too. I live in Boston, where we get more range than most of the country. But there are significant numbers of people here who have no air conditioning, because we did not need it. If temperatures go up enough, people die. No exaggeration - it’s happened during other heat waves.