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."

Comments

Re:Not This Shit Again.

[EmagGeek]

Global warming theoretically might cause increased competition for resources. Increased competition for resources sometimes leads to armed conflict. Armed conflict over resources sometimes results in the US getting involved militarily. The US sometimes uses drones when it is so involved.

Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that global warming definitely causes drone strikes.

Re:NO sense at all!

[h4rr4r]

Up to a limit yes.

Visit a nice tropical nation and look around vs North America or Northern Europe.

In one climate you can survive without any effort, in the other you will work or die outside in the winter.

Obviously once it gets cold enough that also impacts how much work can get done since now all energy must go into just not freezing to death.

Re:Huh?

[1u3hr]

Somebody should invent some way to cool the air down.

Moron. It's not about office workers. RTFA.

The impact will be felt the most by those who work outside or in hot environments, such as firefighters, bakery workers, farmers, construction workers, factory workers, and others who will be forced to slow down due to increases in heat and humidity.

Let me know when you can aircondition a farm or construction site.

Re:Jaw drop

[geekoid]

If only there was a paper explaining it~

Did you read the paper? if so please show me where it's rubbish. If not, STFU and let us adults who have read the paper talk about it, m'kay?

. One heat-stress metric with broad occupational health applications4, 5, 6 is wet-bulb globe temperature. We combine wet-bulb globe temperatures from global climate historical reanalysis7 and Earth System Model (ESM2M) projections8, 9, 10 with industrial4 and military5 guidelines for an acclimated individual’s occupational capacity to safely perform sustained labour under environmental heat stress (labour capacity)"

SO they took known data involving sustaining labour under heat stressed and applied it to the climate change.

They aren't making data up.

YOU otoh are claiming an increase in temperature does not effect production based on..what, your ass?
please, tell me, specifically, what you find wrong with the report:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/extref/nclimate1827-s1.pdf