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This seems irresponsible. Specifically expecting Africa for heat deaths. It is the continent least affected by El nino, which is an eastern pacific phenomenon, and southern hemisphere has mostly eastward winds.
9 million a year die from starvation, about another 9 million from air pollution, much if it from cars, many 100s of thousands die every year from easily prevented diseases.
Many 10s of 1000s die from heat every year. Before that many 10s of 1000s died from cold
I think it safe to say we literally don't give a shit, while this info is good to know, this will just be another one of those statistics, like the above.
On the flip side, planes run into a building, a couple 1000 killed and the earth will be scorched and trillions spent. we have near zero concept of risk.
The point is that this is just the shot across the bow. You can't defend yourself against weather like the stuff that is coming. Food can also not defend itself from that stuff. You depend on food.
It's not even that we don't give a shit, it's that temperature extremes kill people who would have died the next week from something else.
and as always, fossil fuel companies won't be held reliable for any of them...
warm winter in Canada = no snow pack = dry forests in spring and forest fires by May-June.
It scares me how fast weather has changed. When I was a child we would routinely have snowfall before Halloween.
Shit is fucked yo.
Speedruning humanity extinction for good
This month is expected to be the busiest September for number of named tropical storms for the Pacific, and half of them were cat4/5.
Also had the 3rd or 4th fastest hurricane on record to go from a tropical storm to cat5.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2026
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