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orthoclad

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10. Thanks for the wet bulb reference
Sat Apr 1, 2023, 12:21 AM
Apr 2023

That's a good article.

For a fictional depiction of such an event in India, check Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry Of The Future. It begins with a wet-bulb disaster. Ah, I see the DU ref cites the book. It's a well-researched description of a holocaust which we may see in the news - soon.

I keep thinking of the band from Pakistan to Vietnam experiencing glacial melt floods, heat waves, extreme monsoons, and tropical cyclones, and with dense coastal populations experiencing storm surge and sea level rise. They're gonna get mad. Pakistan asked for compensation after 1/3 of the country flooded last year. Pakistan contributed about 0.08% of GHG. The people who contribute the least towards GHG will suffer the most. Some of them have nukes.

For contrast, there's the Persian Gulf rich oil country that used OUTDOOR stadium air conditioning for a soccer match. A soccer match. Of course Kushner and Musk were there.

Cloete thinks 3C will be acceptable. It'll be disastrous.

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