The Air Quality Index in my town is currently 260 (very unhealthy) due to a surge in wildfires in western Canada and the northwest US. There are additional smaller fires not shown on this map at this zoom level.

From the interactive map it looks like the worst air in the world right now.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Thanks! A machine translation.

      That’s very interesting, humans have a measurable preferred average temperature. It doesn’t suggest that it will be impossible to live in India in this scenario, just much less appealing. I already live well outside of our preferred niche towards the cold end, for example.

      That’s not to say that it’s a good situation, though. I hope I haven’t come across as suggesting that, but we’re very hard to kill. I think humans are on the same tier of adaptability as small terrestrial invertebrates at this point; if they can survive probably so can we.

      Here’s a current temperature map so you can see where 11-15C is. India and Egypt seem to be hot-side outliers to start with, having been extensively populated for a long time, as does West Africa. South Africa and Argentina are noticeable areas that are climatically perfect without having too much going on.

      I wonder if we might see agriculture confined to cold seasons in some areas of a hotter Earth.