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by natch 1773 days ago
Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate you geeking out on this. But the fact is, 230 dead from heat in BC is a lot more striking than the described imagined relatively tame scenario from 20 years in the future.

Another way to say it is if we are already seeing this in Canada in 2021, the reality in southern India in 2041 is going to be a helluva lot worse than the article portrays.

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But…the article doesn’t describe a more tame scenario. You really just seem to have completely misread it. You say it imagines “only 11 deaths” but it’s talking about just people waiting to get into one hospital, not the wider area or impact. If you bothered to read on you’d see the actual imagined death numbers are in the tens of thousands.

Please read the article before commenting falsehoods about it. You claimed the imagined temperature was lower (it’s not). You claimed the imagined deaths are lower (they’re not).