What about all the potential New Yorks that are currently too cold to live in but could be thriving cities if they were just warmer?
More humans die every year of cold than of heat. Just due to the asymmetry of the numbers, there's a good chance that global temp increases will actually save lives, a fact that is rarely mentioned by articles like this.
The result in the end is simple: It will be cheaper in the long run to mitigate the cause than the effects.
Turns out all it took to solve food production was inventing a process to extra Nitrogen from the air.
Even scientists are notoriously bad at predicting future tech breakthroughs.
It does mean that the poles warm more than the tropics--in other words, extreme cold decreases by more than extreme heat increases.
> Weather will just become more extreme
There is no data showing that extreme weather events are becoming more common with climate change. The cost of such events is going up, but that's because there is a lot more valuable property in areas where the events happen.
> there is a good chance that more people will die from harsher winters too.
No, there isn't. There is no data showing this and no models predict it.
That’s easy: those New Yorks will release hundreds of years worth of greenhouse gases when they plow the newly ice-free soil around them.
What makes you think that?
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