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by acesubido 2483 days ago
> I think scientists have made an overwhelming convincing case climate change is real and it's from an increase in co2, but I have seen no models that I can play with specifically predicting how it will affect certain regions..... I guess my point is the first step is better forecasting and modeling tools.

Crop yields per region: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aab63b

Also, this might help direct you in the right contacts for that first step: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/impacts-climate-change-o...

> Otherwise we really don't know what we are fighting, other than higher temperatures.

Pretty important to fight higher temperatures too though, wet-bulb heatwaves can kill even under shade. "Some people" won't "suffer"; they'll actually die. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/33/8746