The surface temperature of the Persian Gulf (where I flew) regularly exceeded 95 degrees. Search and Rescue was very much "on the clock" if you went in the water because of hyperthermia. At a certain point, your body cannot exchange heat fast enough, you overheat, and die. 2/n
"Huhuh, that's why we have air conditioning," say smug people like Ben Shapiro, who completely miss the point, while insisting climate change isn't real, and neither are the laws of physics dealing with heat exchange. There's a huge problem with that. 3/m
Where the **** do you think your food comes from? What happens to the plants? What happens to the people harvesting those plants? What happens to the animals in the ocean that we harvest for food? Do you see yet how the entire system collapses quickly? 4/n
What happens when wave of heat start mass killing people in Central America? As the waves of climate refugees stream north? I'm sure conservative millionaires assume they can ride it out on their wealth, but they fail to grok how interconnected things are. 5/n
It doesn't take much for a system to collapse if some critical node, or vertex, fails. Our global systems are really fragile and unpredictable at times (see: supply chain issues) I suspect that climate change catastrophe is much like going broke: 6/n