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. Doomers cream their pants at the prospect of climatechange
I hope our sexy Indian dude drama-friends are doing fine considering the current heat wave you guys are going through. But it's possible the 52 C recorded could be due to a faulty sensor.
Anyway, here are the people at /r/climatechange discussing the incoming collapse and total extinction of the sub-continent and eventually the whole world.
Someone calculated how long until a single heat wave kills a million people in India. It was surprisingly close like 1 decade away. India will be unlivable as a country soon due to heat waves and there will be billions of people fleeing the country. Unbearable is an understatement.
I can't imagine how they are coping. I live in Florida and my air broke over the weekend. It reached into the 90s inside of the house and it was miserable. I couldn't think straight and all I wanted was to just lay down under a fan all day not moving. My pets could not sleep at night it was so hot and humid. I think about all of these poor animals that will die this horrible death so one species's greed
Floridan dramatards, thoughts? I only went to Florida during winter, mild winter close to that of where I live.
I'm surprised India wouldn't be going all-in on renewable technologies/energy if they're starting to see temps above 125F. What is life going to look like in 2040? Millions dying from heat? I hope not
Yes. Exactly. People have modeled it and this is the future.
So, revolution when?
Climate change? 
Some people are not having it
Turns out that the temperature reading we're talking about was anectodal, cherrypicked, false, and not even taken in Delhi:
Today in Delhi top temp is around 46 C, which sounds crazy hot to us westerners, but it's totally normal for the hottest days of the year in that part of India, and is expected to drop in the next days.
!ifrickinglovescience !physics
And here's more doom!
Ok. Let's assume emissions were immediately zero, right? The cleaner air will accelerate the speed of global warming. The rate has doubled since 2010 due to low sulfur bunker C ship fuel regulations.
Taking this example further… James Hansen and the team at Columbia University estimate that the current atmospheric composition would result in earth being 8 - 10 degrees CELSIUS warmer than today. It will take roughly 10,000 years of warming for temperature to equalize. It's an exponential function so the last 1000 years the temperature wouldn't change nearly as fast.
We are F-U-C-K-E-D.
What? Where did he pull that 10 C warming?
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I didn't have power for awhile, but you surprisingly get used to it after a few days. It's like our bodies were designed to deal with temperate climates before the invention of air conditioning.
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Are power outages common?
I think we have the same weather as Florida where I live (minus beach as I live hundreds of kilometers away from the coast), hot humid summers and mild winters
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No, sweaty. It's the hurricanes that'll do it.
Having been around the world, living here and there, I love humid places the most. Give me that sun and those big poofy clouds! Of course, the autumn and winter are always welcome.
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Come and visit the Cataratas (Iguaçu Falls) then!
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South America is kind of underrated in terms of natural tourism. I'm planning a trip to Ushuaia next year (I was supposed to go this year but I had to postponed it because of work related stuff) and maybe visit the Perito Moreno glacier nearby.
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The language is a barrier, travel time from the States (but it's not too bad), and it's huge. That and the crime--specifically not knowing where to not go at certain times.
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Depends on the country and city, Argentina is quite safe even in large cities like Buenos Aires where you can walk at night without worries (you can't do that in Rio de Janeiro for instance, or any Brazilian state capital for the matter). Towns in the Patagonia like Bariloche or at the tip of the continent like Ushuaia are even safer and are used to tourists.
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