There was a conversation about this here a few months ago. Seriously what happens when these places get too hot to live in? If it turns into 145° temperatures in Las Vegas, for example, will we just abandon the city, turning it into a ghost town? Even while inside, you can't stay cool because of the power consumption. You can't just be blaring the AC 24/7 in every building and every car. Not to mention, you can't cool the outside of cars or buildings, so those could overheat. How do you get food and water to these places? I suppose they could build high speed rail going in and out of the city, but you still run into the same problems of having to keep the entire thing refrigerated.
Now multiply this for hundreds of cities, towns, and shotgun shacks across the southern US. Will the entire state of Texas have to leave because nighttime temperatures are over 150°? Just miles and miles of Death Valley conditions spread out across the South.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how things will be worse south of the border going into Mexico and South America.
The first warning sign will be insurance companies pulling out of entire regions, like what happened in California.
Might be survivable if people adapted and figured out ways to conserve water and energy and build better, more resiliant infrastructure, but that's not going to happen in this country.
There was a conversation about this here a few months ago. Seriously what happens when these places get too hot to live in? If it turns into 145° temperatures in Las Vegas, for example, will we just abandon the city, turning it into a ghost town? Even while inside, you can't stay cool because of the power consumption. You can't just be blaring the AC 24/7 in every building and every car. Not to mention, you can't cool the outside of cars or buildings, so those could overheat. How do you get food and water to these places? I suppose they could build high speed rail going in and out of the city, but you still run into the same problems of having to keep the entire thing refrigerated.
Now multiply this for hundreds of cities, towns, and shotgun shacks across the southern US. Will the entire state of Texas have to leave because nighttime temperatures are over 150°? Just miles and miles of Death Valley conditions spread out across the South.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention how things will be worse south of the border going into Mexico and South America.
The first warning sign will be insurance companies pulling out of entire regions, like what happened in California.
Might be survivable if people adapted and figured out ways to conserve water and energy and build better, more resiliant infrastructure, but that's not going to happen in this country.