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Silent3

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6. We're dooming other species more than ourselves

Reply to Timewas (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 17, 2023, 03:07 AM

Jul 2023

Humans are too adaptable and resilient for climate change to cause human extinction. Oh, we might die off in hideous numbers, but nowhere near what it would take to cause our extinction.

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Iran airport reports a heat index of 152 degrees F [View all] milestogo Jul 2023 OP

Heat index, not actual, but still whoa! Blues Heron Jul 2023 #1

Thank you. milestogo Jul 2023 #3

40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and 65% humidity muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #11

What have we done to the planet. applegrove Jul 2023 #2

Actually Timewas Jul 2023 #4

Yup. Meanwhile the right wing oligarchs think their money will applegrove Jul 2023 #5

We're dooming other species more than ourselves Silent3 Jul 2023 #6

That's only until they run out of Otto_Harper Jul 2023 #7

Global warming, bad as it, is not going to wipe out every available food source for humans Silent3 Jul 2023 #12

no guarantee of that at all Blues Heron Jul 2023 #8

We're far, far from Venusian levels of overheating Silent3 Jul 2023 #13

Nobody knows what the feedback loops will do, its silly to pretend otherwise Blues Heron Jul 2023 #14

THAT big a feedback loop problem can be ruled out Silent3 Jul 2023 #15

Are you a geophysicist? Blues Heron Jul 2023 #17

Are you? Silent3 Jul 2023 #19

True but Elessar Zappa Jul 2023 #16

who said anytime soon - the point is we are in uncharted territory Blues Heron Jul 2023 #18

Wow. Most jet aircraft can't take off in that heat as the engines don't produce enough thrust. machoneman Jul 2023 #9

It's the "heat index", which involves humidity, not the temperature. muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #10

Combination Timewas Jul 2023 #20