Unfortunately, that’s just not possible everywhere. For instance, where I live the water table is like 6 inches below the ground. Pretty much every house here has a crawlspace foundation. The few that do have basements pretty much all have mold issues and need sump pumps, etc.

This summer I may sleep in my smelly basement since I work nights. I'll get a cot so I don't have to be on dirt, but it's better than a room where the temperatures are over 30°C even on smelly wet dirt.

That works in winter as well. The ground usually stays in the 50s(F).

Anything that doesn't kill you brings you closer to death in some way if it is hurtful.

Uhhh exercise can be hurtful (muscle soreness) and I'm sure we can find other examples

Not that I disagree with the rest of your post. I love a good sauna, but the joy of it is that it ends when I get out (and maybe jump into a pile of snow). A heat wave is just... Taxing

This is what we come to lemmy for!

This is talking about the weather conditions at which a person is guaranteed to die if they are outside for six hours in the shade (or at night).

Previously climate scientists said this would happen at a wet bulb temperature^1^ of 35 Celsius, theoretically enough to prevent a sweat-drenched human body from overheating. However, research has demonstrated the threshold is lower and doesn't perfectly follow a single wet bulb temperature. And the scientific article that the news article is about shows these conditions have already occurred several times, when it was previously thought this threshold had not been breached yet.

Of course people can find shelter in an air conditioned buildings, underground, or under a forest canopy. But billions of people do not have access to these options. At some point they can either die or migrate, and this research shows that point requires less climate change than previously predicted. Combined with climate change occurring at a faster rate than the median expectation, mass climate migration is coming a lot sooner than expected.

^1^: the temperature a thermometer indicates if the bulb is wet. If the air is dry, evaporation will cause this temperature to be lower than the air temperature, which is also the temperature a thermometer indicates if the bulb is dry.

Yeah, when they happen, and above a certain threshold.

The problem is that the "when" is becoming far more common and the baseline is rising ever closer to that "certain threshold."

Droughts and heat vs cold periods and floods.

You get a pummeling of that? TKO.

You mean digits = deaths? We have absolutely killed that many and the WHO estimates near a half million heat related deaths. Or are you referring to a limited locale?

That book was The Ministry for the Future (2020) by Kim Stanley Robinson and the solution involved assassinations at scale of oil and gas industry executives as well as destruction by drone of all fossil fuel tankers and egregiously polluting cargo ships. Also, massive releases of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, aggressive immobilization of Antarctic glaciers via water pumps, and the onboarding of all central banks to rebase currency according to how much CO₂ you can fix into the ground instead of capitalism's belief in endless future growth. It is a very optimistic story, but one we'll have to carry out eventually in some form to at least the degree described in the book.

That was a surprisingly grisly start to an otherwise extremely disappointing book.

look just think positive thoughts!

humans have survived all previous challenges, we’ll be fine

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Still waiting for something like Kali's Children to emerge...

I think it would take an incident that kills a bunch of people that effect global economies for anyone care.

Everyone dies in a small Vietnamese town that makes t-shirts on the cheap. It wouldn't be the people that died that would matter, it would be the stop of cheap production. If the work can be moved elsewhere, their deaths are unimportant.

The world is a meat grinder for the rich and powerful. Eventually most of us will die because of it, the trajectory has been that way for so long. We did stop the hole in the ozone, but only because we developed technology to reduce factories producing CO2 not because we were willing to turn them off.

How about we adapt by organizing to force governments to pass genuinely good workplace regulations around limits to working in the heat?