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Severe global warming will render half of world's inhabited areas unliveable, expert warns http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1236985794
Severe global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot to live in, a US scientist warned today.
Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating - rendering such areas effectively uninhabitable.
Steven Sherwood, a climate expert at Yale University, told a global warming conference in Copenhagen that people will not be able to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought.
The physiological limits of the human body will begin to render places impossible to support human life if the average global temperature rises by 7C on pre-industrial levels, he said.
"There will be some places on Earth where it would simply be impossible to lose heat," Sherwood said.
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Snark says: "What, we have limits?"
Ferris says: "Nah, we'll just invent some nanothing to grow a film across the tops of our cities, so we can air condition them."
Fred says: "@ferris: and do the same thing with all the farmers' fields? Gotta eat."
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