3mo ago

Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels

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this summer is going to be a fuckin doozy.
inb4
The future is just gonna be Frostpunk in reverse, isn't it?
- Hotpunk
  
  i'd prefer the cold one. easier to get warm and retain heat. the earth gets warmer the deeper you get. you can wear layers
  heat is eventually inescapable. sure you can go underground, but eventually every heat sink will fail.
  and you can't take off your skin (yet)
It doesn't mention the wet bulb temperature. If that temperature is just the temperature, you can still do things to cool (wet clothes, shade, airflow), but if the wet bulb is that hot, you're screwed because it's then too humid to use anything besides phase change cooling (proper air conditioning). Either way, that is still crazy hot and it's only going to get worse over time.
- i bash my head on the wall knowing a worldwide coordinated socialist project could easily save everyone.
two heavily populated nuclear powers gonna get devastated by climate change, it's not looking too good
- That share a major river that Pakistan completely relies on and India controls the source of. It's probably one of the scariest potential flash points of conflict that almost never gets talked about, at least in the West.
  
  Oh, a new terrifying thing I'd never been taught before, thank you for that nightmare fuel...

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