Hi Robin
If you combine air condition with solar energy - a perfect match - then
the risk is very low especially if you have a redundant system.
> 2 billion people will be displaced when the sea level is +4 meters
factually this means 10 meters if you add stronger storm waves.
In Arabia you live with 50C day time T since quite a long time. But its
not supportable for Nordic genotype humans...
I personally enjoy T up to 35C and also up to 40 is no real problem. But
my wive panics already at 30C. It is also a matter of humidity 30C with
90% humidity is more demanding that 36 with 30%.
J.W.
On 25/10/2026 20:28, Robin wrote:
In reply to Jürg Wyttenbach's message of Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:02:29 +0100:
Hi Jürg,
I think heatstroke will be a far more serious problem than sea level rise. Sea
level rise is slow and communities will
move out of the way (piecemeal). However as the average temperature anomaly
increases so does the chance of extremely
hot days. This is worse in cities, which act as heat islands. Normally people
keep cool with fans and airconditioners,
but the electrical distribution system also has heat related weaknesses as
demonstrated by the recent power grid
collapse in Spain.
On such an extremely hot day, the chances of a power grid failure are also maximized.
It's a "perfect storm".
Just when it is most needed, the power grid fails, resulting in millions of
people dying in the city in one day.
Just imagine trying to bury millions of bodies all at once. It's essentially an
impossible task. The city will just be
abandoned by anyone who survives. Later looters may go back to ransack the
place.
This will not just happen in one city. As the temperature anomaly continues to
worsen the number of cities where this
happens will increase. After the first, you may see people all over the world
abandoning the cities altogether, and
heading for the countryside, which won't help because small towns will grow
into cities again.
Our only real hope is to develop a source of clean energy that is not based on
fossil fuels before it is too late.
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Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
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