This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat. 99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.

Aug 6, 2023 · 8:07 AM UTC

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We created the map based on data from this paper in Nature Sustainability. nature.com/articles/s41893-0…

Quantifying the human cost of global warming

Nature Sustainability - As an alternative to monetary estimates, this study expresses the costs of climate change in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’,...

nature.com
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Here's what MAT>29 means in terms of a) number of days with max temps over 40C, and b) number of days with wet bulb temps above 28C.
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Here is the map without country borders. Black shading represents MAT>29C.
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Yes, Southern Europe and other regions shaded grey here will face extreme heat at 2.7C (and already are even at 1.2C). Grey does not mean OK. This study is focused on serious extremes, like 80+ days per year with max temps above 40C.
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I should say: for most of the affected countries, their cumulative emissions are still within their fair-share of the safe planetary boundary of 350ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2. (This map updates this study to 2019: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…)
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Here is the same data represented in North vs South in time series. nature.com/articles/s41893-0…
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Everyone is sick of hearing about it. It’s summer. It’s hot. It’s fine.
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Replying to @jasonhickel
Agreed. (And if you widen the boundaries further, that 2 billion is expanded via many future generations of humans and trillions of animals/birds/creatures). Yet the economic energy metabolism continues space. New ATHs in global coal consumption…
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Replying to @jasonhickel
Our countries are forced to destroy ecosystems to extract the minerals ("critical minerals") that the northern hemisphere needs, this is an immense injustice
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...and the worst is that the vast majority, even at the most optimistic development scenarios, will still have no fridge, let alone air conditioning!
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woah, exposed to heat on the equator in the summer. Breaking news.
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Replying to @jasonhickel @ThatPascoeWoman
Check this out today in Alaska
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Replying to @jasonhickel @juliendossier
A related, and mind boggling, story. bbc.com/news/world-latin-ame…
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@susanamuhamad @petrogustavo
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Animals too!
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What? What kind of picture of the world do you have? Do you think people around the equator run around with spears and live in huts made of straw and clay? They use oil just as much as anyone.
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Stop it, just stop it.
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Based on crooked computer modelling. Climate crisis is a scam to try and get people to accept communism.
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So if we buy absolution from the church of climate hysteria we are fine, right?
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Stop lying. Since 1760 the earth warmed up 1C. Last 20 years have shown no heating and some suggest the earth will cool down, due to growing permafrost is the north.
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It's called summer, relax it's just WEF doing their propaganda, turn on you as you will be fine
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50 trillion dollars would not have made a dent in this graph. Nor does our CO2.
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Curious question here. Do more people die of hotter temps or colder temps?
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More of the same
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People choose to live in tropical climates because it is warm.
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Replying to @jasonhickel
What a load of drivel.
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As my Generation was part of it, I do feel very much ashamed. For decades I thought the Generation of my parents would start to do something or it would be enough if I do my share and teach others how they could do something to slow down climate change. But it wasn’t.

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Replying to @jasonhickel
No. They’re humans and responsible as well. Climate change is roughly 50% due to ecocide & replacement with agriculture. Agriculture is proportional to population and the most ecologically destructive of our needs.
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If it breaks you then you need to stop obsessing about it.
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Most vulnerable and you want them to stay that way by restricting them from industrialization. Ridiculous. Tropical climates are populous because they are most survivable.
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And the difference lowering out emissions from 1% to a fraction of this will make?
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That map doesn't look right to me. For one thing, it's colouring by country; I'm fairly sure, for example, that the far south of Brazil won't suffer like the north of Brazil. And the southern states of USA will be in the "almost uninhabitable" zone.
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Replying to @jasonhickel
Now do exposure to cold, which kills several times more people each year.
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