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The science says we might see 4 degrees ultimately. That amounts to more severe weather of all kinds, and means a higher increase in places which will lose snow cover, but it's nothing an AC unit and careful emergency planning can't handle, and it won't necessarily harm agriculture more than it helps it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c166xxd4y36o
this is how hot it is today. add 4c average warming, and these spikes will be even higher and more lethal. people are dying in this heat today.
lol, when everyone cranks their ac and the grid blows, good luck with that.
stick your head back in the sand.
Generators, batteries, just a better grid. If it happened tomorrow it would be scary, but it will be gradual. Really poor people in vulnerable areas might not have the option to adapt, which I mentioned, but the average Lemming does.
Is dying your retirement plan or something? I'm not the one contradicting the experts here.
it's happening NOW.
buildout all the grid you can, it won't be enough for everyone, and when it collapses, everyone's fucked.
Did your parents have any children that lived? I bet they regret that.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/potentially-record-breaking-heat-wave-180834697.html
stick your head back in the sand and stop replying if you can't support your argument.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00239-4
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/european-heat-deaths_n_6798bfe6e4b0e3bbf46ca2ad
https://www.newsweek.com/extreme-heat-killing-more-americans-ever-1811274
https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/extreme-heat-is-a-killer-a-recent-heat-wave-shows-how-much-more-deadly-its-becoming/1792817
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/report-extreme-heat-us-climate-crisis_n_61313a6ce4b0df9fe273debf
Oh, so it's over a moment from NOW?
Nah, it's slowly and continuously happening. It has been for decades, although with greater rate as we've ignored it.
We'll need X amount of power. If the grid can supply that, we won't directly cook. It's more than now, but not massively more.
No u.
still can't support your argument.
you really have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. switzerland, alone, with it's world class infrastructure, is going to have to bring on 40gw of new power:
https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/is_air_conditioning_a_threat_to_the_power_grid-2024-epfl
"The additional demand is impacting local power grids, which were already congested. Existing power lines and transformers weren’t sized for the kind of load they’re now experiencing. Power plants are also under greater pressure as they must supply the additional electricity and keep enough reserves to accommodate the often-unpredictable spikes in demand.
If we want to fill the gap with renewable energy, an estimated 40 GW of additional solar power will be needed to meet Switzerland’s demand for electricity, including electricity for heating systems, cooling systems and electric vehicles. But that will make local power grids even more congested and increase the required reserves."
The need is now, the buildup is going to be expensive, and that's for countries that can afford it. please, shut the fuck up, you have no idea what you're talking about.
So, a timeframe isn't given here, and it's not even clear who's being interviewed (Alain Herzog is the photographer), but it doesn't sound too out there. That's a 200% increase, given Switzerland's current use, and it's specifically renewable capacity to overcome variability. If you provide some kind of V2G or grid storage, or something more responsive like nuclear, that's going to go down, because the figure is essentially what's needed to avoid disruption on a hot day that's also very cloudy.