fatslob-:O said:
That doesn't change the fact that colder temperatures are relatively more lethal than warmer temperatures ... Your assertion also has limits too. Even if we burned all sources of fossil fuels including currently unrecoverable sources too the average temperature rise would only amount to 10*C where our current average is still less than 1*C ... (There's only so many sources we can find and burn but the best part is we'd still be in the habitable zone!) The fearmongering of a doomsday scenario where we will see boiling oceans if we use more fuel is just unfettered ignorance ... |
No they are not you can survive extreme cold relvatively easily and its not that difficult to build a shelter to guard against extreme cold humans have been doing it for thousands of years. The only problem with exteme cold is if you are stuck in it too long there is good chance you might loose some toes, fingers or other body parts due to frost bite. But with extreme heat once you go into heat stroke or are dehydrated you will die pretty quickly without imeditate medical attention. Most places that have numerous days above 40C would have less then 1/10 the population they have today without air conditioning since humans adapt a lot less to extreme heat then extreme cold.
