Stephan: The research upon which this report is based was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Here is a really clear exposition, on an aspect of climate change many don't seem to consider. As I have been saying for years, in the United States we are going to have three big migrations. Away from coastlines because of sea rise, and temperature. Out of the Southwest because of lack of water and temperature. Out of the south-central states because of violent weather events, temperature, and a lack of water.
But as this research study makes clear it is going to be much bigger than that. This report concludes that by 2070, 3.5 billion humans will be in nearly unliveable conditions. You think they will just stay there? No, neither do I. The entire world including the United States is going to be stressed in ways the Covid-19 virus pandemic just hints at.
We are either going to grow up and awaken to the matrix of life, and figure out how to live within it in a way that fosters wellbeing, or hundreds of millions of us are going to die. Overpopulation, which used to obsess us is not going to be an issue, I predict. Migration is the issue.
A study forecasting global temperatures as a result of climate change has projected that billions will be made to endure “nearly unliveable” heat. Credit: stevanovicigor/Depositphotos
Climate change stands to reshape the world in all kinds of ways, and one of the most profound will be the impact of warmer temperatures on the human population. An international team of researchers casting an eye towards this future has published a study detailing a grim outlook for billions of people, with rapidly rising temperatures to leave them outside the “climate niche” where humans have thrived for thousands of years.
A lot of reports that investigate the oncoming effects of climate change do so with an 2 °C (3.6 °F) or 3 °C (5.4 °F) temperature increase in mind and project how such jumps in global average temperatures over pre-industrial levels could impact the world’s ecosystems, from the oceans to the mountains, and everything in between.
Climate change stands to reshape the world in all kinds of ways, and one of the most profound will be the impact of warmer temperatures on the human population. An international […]
Beth Alexander
on Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 8:01 am
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Rev. Dean
on Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 3:00 pm
We here in Pa. are experiencing low temperatures in the high 30’s to low 40’s and our power company plans to shut off all our power to fix something and we cannot even find out when this will occur. I’ve heard rumors that it will occur during the morning hours of 6AM through 12PM. I can only hope that is true. My wife has her insulin in the fridge and must get it out as soon as she wakes up after she checks her glucose reading on her machine. I sure hope it does not take long. We will loose our heat during this outage, also. That is another BIG problem. If they could do these repairs during the night it would be much less of a problem because we could stay warm under our blankets. We will find out tomorrow.
The link to the full article has been corrected
We here in Pa. are experiencing low temperatures in the high 30’s to low 40’s and our power company plans to shut off all our power to fix something and we cannot even find out when this will occur. I’ve heard rumors that it will occur during the morning hours of 6AM through 12PM. I can only hope that is true. My wife has her insulin in the fridge and must get it out as soon as she wakes up after she checks her glucose reading on her machine. I sure hope it does not take long. We will loose our heat during this outage, also. That is another BIG problem. If they could do these repairs during the night it would be much less of a problem because we could stay warm under our blankets. We will find out tomorrow.