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Where will the tourists go? Europe’s winning and losing destinations due to the climate crisis
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Imagine traffic jams to get into Scandinavia while the Côte d'Azur burns.
I'm picturing the people sipping their martinis in the Arctic circle
I think there will be a time where the polar circles are going to be the only habitable place on earth
We did have temperatures like 8 degrees higher then today. It means rainforest covered large parts of the world. However the North European plain was also covered in water, which is a slight issue.
We've had much-warmer temperatures on Earth, but outside of when humans were around.
https://www.climate.gov/media/11332
If you're in Europe, 90°F is ~32°C and 50°F is 10°C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
We can live in even the warm areas of an Earth like that, but it'd be an Earth that's warmer than humanity has ever experienced.
That's pretty close to this summer