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Study warns of unsurvivable heat in South Asia
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A new study that came out saying that by the year 2100 heat in south asia well be too unbearable for people to suvive

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The heat in Arizona has been unbearable since Feb 14, 1912. But no one here is complaining.
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I don't think South Asia would become unbearable at 31c. Unless I read the topic wrong, with them stating it will reach a danger level of 31c; however, not a fatal level unlike at 35c.

The survivability threshold is considered to be 35 degrees Celsius, or 95 degrees Fahrenheit.


Temperatures would still reach dangerous levels (over 31 Celsius), but would not be quite so close to the fatal threshold.


In 83 years, if things heat up gradually, people there would start to slowly adapt to the new heat, just as humans have done since the beginning of time. 31c is common in plenty of places actually. For example, next Sunday in California, Los Angeles is supposed to be 31c. Las Vegas is 32c as of typing this right now at 8:55 AM, with tomorrow supposed to be 39c. Phoenix, Arizona is also 31c with apparently hitting 40c later in the day and next Wednesday hitting 44c. If you look at Middle Eastern, African and South Asia/South East Asia, a good majority are either at 31c or above 31c, with some creeping really close. Yet, there are humans who can live in those temperatures and survive. They've adapted, from the genes passed on through their ancestors of simply living in those climates. Then we can look at extreme cold. We'll use Russia as I'm more familiar with my home country. There are some places that are literally so damn cold, it's classed as uninhabitable, yet there is a small population of people who live there. Norilsk is one place in Russia that should be inhabitable for more reasons than one. Huge industrial city that gets an average of -30c in the winter. On top of that, the air is so polluted it tastes like pure Sulfur. The snow there has been grey and black plenty of times from the pollution. Then there's Oymyakon which apparently has had average winter temps of -42 to -50 c. Yet, there's people still living there. I come from Novosibirsk, which we get an average -20 ish Celsius which is perfectly fine, but I already know a place like Norilsk or Oymyakon would be pushing it for me, because I wasn't born there, none of my ancestors lived there as far as I know. I haven't adapted to that cold, yet the people living there have adapted to that cold.

I'm not insinuating that we should just ignore global warming or any major causing factors that harm the environment, I'm just saying I don't believe South Asia would become "unbearable" or "uninhabitable" given the already high temperatures plenty of people live in around the world. Uncomfortable? Sure, but no one ever said living was comfortable. Given the amount of time for the estimates of reaching higher temps, that gives enough time for people to slowly adapt. Now if the article said by 2020 temperatures in would rise past 36c, then yeah, I would say they would be royally screwed as that's too fast of a change for the body to get used to. I'm still not even used to the heat in America, California to be specific and I've been here almost 9 years. I've had to endure quite a drastic change in temperature, easily 20+c difference, but I also have the excuse of letting my AC run 24/7 where my house is a somewhat comfortable 2c.
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We won't know until 2100.
Climate is always changing. These predictions are based on graphs that are constantly changing over time. As a person who believes in science, and climate change which is ironic being I'm more towards the Right, I don't think it'll come to this point.
Weather is hard to predict, and it can change drastically depending on the atmosphere. If anything, it could be that some days will be difficult to withstand; which I'll conclude has been happening for over a decade.
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it has been super hot in Canada lately but at least u guys don't get -58 Fahrenheit
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