I think you missed the point.
Its not the fact that Humans aren't as resiliant as any other creature, its the fact that Humans or for that matter any other creature aren't as resiliant as the Earth! The climate change which we are CURRENTLY experiencing is not just affecting us, its ALREADY affecting various plants an animals.
"The average temperature would have to rise pretty substantially" - "almost definately be check by evaporative cooling" -
Oh really? fair enough, so this evaporative cooling? was that what the Earth was using when Hurricane Katrina killed all those poor people in New Orleans? Because that IS what rapid evaporative cooling can cause. Look mate, what I'm trying to tell you is this, its not just the fact that we as humans can withstand a couple of degrees, because your right, we can. What we cannot withstand is the other effects of this temperature. Like crop failure from hurricanes and as we call them in Australia cyclones, flooding, or on the flip side drought. Livestock are also effected by these things, especially drought. What does this amount to? - lack of food. What does lack of food amount to? At the least - lower standards of living, at the worst - death.
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I think you missed the point. Its not the fact that Humans aren't as resiliant as any other creature, its the fact that Humans or for that matter any other creature aren't as resiliant as the Earth! The climate change which we are CURRENTLY experiencing is not just affecting us, its ALREADY affecting various plants an animals. "The average temperature would have to rise pretty substantially" - "almost definately be check by evaporative cooling" - Oh really? fair enough, so this evaporative cooling? was that what the Earth was using when Hurricane Katrina killed all those poor people in New Orleans? Because that IS what rapid evaporative cooling can cause. Look mate, what I'm trying to tell you is this, its not just the fact that we as humans can withstand a couple of degrees, because your right, we can. What we cannot withstand is the other effects of this temperature. Like crop failure from hurricanes and as we call them in Australia cyclones, flooding, or on the flip side drought. Livestock are also effected by these things, especially drought. What does this amount to? - lack of food. What does lack of food amount to? At the least - lower standards of living, at the worst - death.