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timschmidttoday at 7:55 AM1 replyview on HN

No doubt the transition period would likely involve more death than most catastrophes in history. In part because there are simply more people. Available sunlight is also less nearer the poles, which already affects agriculture in places like Greenland. Crops would shift. We'd be more dependent on energy and supplemental light for certain crops. Adjustment would be difficult. But quite a bit of land would still be habitable.


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Throaway199999today at 1:44 PM

Disease and parasitic life would also explode in all previously-habitable parts of the Earth due to increased temp.