When these factors are combined with the high population growth predicted in hotter countries, one report finds that 3.0 degrees celsius of averaged global warming translates to an average temperature increase as felt per individual of 7.5 degrees celsius.1 The same report estimates that 30% of the world’s predicted population will then be living in areas with an average temperature equal to or above the hottest parts of the Sahara desert by 2070.
It’s very unclear how someone can on the one hand expect this kind of damage to be caused by climate change and on the other hand expect that people in the future won’t do geoengineering that leads to different temperatures. Or expect that this isn’t supposed to be an important element of any modal that predict the future of global warming.
It’s very unclear how someone can on the one hand expect this kind of damage to be caused by climate change and on the other hand expect that people in the future won’t do geoengineering that leads to different temperatures. Or expect that this isn’t supposed to be an important element of any modal that predict the future of global warming.