NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures

pigrabbitbear writes with a story about some interesting possible effects of Global Warming. From the article: "It's a good thing that robots are stealing our jobs, because in about thirty-five years, nobody in their right mind is going to want to do them. Scientists from NOAA just published a report ... that details how a warming climate impacts the way we work, and the results are pretty clear — we do less of it. NOAA discovered that over the last 60 years, the hotter, wetter climate has decreased human labor capacity by 10%. And it projects that by 2050, that number will double."

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Re:Sorry, too lazy to read summary

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun is shining here in Portugal...

Could someone tell me in one sentence what it was about?

Work.

In other words, nothing you Portuguese would know about.

What global warming?

[scorp1us]

Even IPCC head Pachauri admits no warming for 17 years. So what warming are they talking about? 17 years is not a small amount of time. It's 0 change for 1/5 of a century. Given that it's also the most recent fifth, I don't know how they can forecast anything. The OP report says over the "last 60 years", what they mean is 60 years ago for 43 years, ignoring the most recent 17. I don't know how anyone can have any confidence in that trend line when it stops 2/3 through the period.