Interesting cherry-pick of data application. Here’s another one: South Florida this summer had many, many days in a row in the mid 90s, with feels-like temperatures over 110. Adding 10 degrees to that for a real temperature of 105ish and associated humidity would be a massive change.
Nature Communications Earth & Environment: “Carbon footprint of the construction sector is projected to double by 2050 globally”
Our analysis shows that even if emissions from all other industries were reduced to zero, the construction carbon footprint alone would be enough to use up all remaining carbon budgets for 1.5 °C (33%, 50%, and 83% probability) (Fig. 4). Our estimate of cumulative business-as-usual emissions from the construction industry between 2023 and 2050 amounts to 440 Gt CO2. This would deplete the 83% probability carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5 °C by 2030, the 50% probability budget by 2040, and the 33% probability budget by 2050. We consider Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2 as the business-as-usual scenario. When accounting for a wider range of probabilities and projections under various population growth scenarios, the intersection zone extends to 2025–2040 for 1.5 degrees and 2040–2050 for 2 °C.
Without some kind of massive multinational global action to radically change current trends even notwithstanding increases in hydrocarbon energy production, we’re pretty fucked.
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Is the Great Barrier Reef dying a big deal?
Is the continuing existence of polar bears a big deal?
Are 10% stronger storms a big deal?
I can make this a long as you want. Just say the word and I’ll make it (a lot) longer.
I humbly suggest we in fact wait for the OP to respond to any of the many many many coherent and comprehensive replies here to see if there’s an honest attempt at discourse.
I was talking to a paleontologist and dinosaur expert from the Tyrell museum in Drumheller once a few years ago. I asked what the tropical climate was like if there were trees growing by the ocean in the Arctic. He said that the tropics were barely liveable. Those giant dinosaurs we like to think of lived in the temperate zones. There was not a lot of notable large animals in the tropics, because large animals have problems with body heat. Many of the larger ones were aquatic. Some had large sails which may have helped for thermal regulation.
@SCAdian, could you please respond to the many points given here?
On the other hand, this seems to be an excellent place to continue to add to information already given, lest someone assume that the majority of it has already been presented.