I'm sure, you know, on some level that global warming is happening,
the climate is changing and things are getting warmer,
but it probably seems a little bit abstract, right?
I mean, things will get hotter.
I guess maybe I'll switch to linen shirts or something.
No, no, that it's not going to do it.
There has been some new research revealed in the last week that
I found to be one of the most horrifying bits of news I've seen in a long time and
it has to do with how much hotter it's going
to get across a wide band of America in just the next couple of decades.
So you can take a look at this.
The full details are available in analysis in the Washington.
What you're seeing in that map is a projection for 2053.
We're talking about just three decades from now.
It is the number of days with dangerous heat levels above 100°F,
the darkest color, that is 90 days.
And we're talking about per year.
It's not like there are that many hundreds of days in a year and
that is over 100 degrees, but it gets even worse.
So right now there's an estimated 46% of americans who have to endure
each year at least three consecutive days of 100 plus degree heat.
So think about a heat wave, three days in a row of it being more than 100 degrees.
Almost half of americans have to endure that that's going to go up to
63% of the population in just three decades.
It will be a good bit.
The majority in the south.
Global warming is expected to deliver an average of 20 extra days of triple
digit heat each year.
In some states, like texas and florida, they're gonna see
70 consecutive days of over 100 F More than two months with
unrelenting triple digit weather and that's in general.
There are some areas where it's going to be even worse,
specifically in Miami Dade County.
They're expecting 50 days of heat index above 100°.
Moving up to 91 days by 2053.
That one area.
Like you, you think you're gonna be going to the beach,
you're not gonna be able to stay on the beach.
The beach is gonna eat you up.
And that's just a couple of decades from now.
You can see in this image, like a north south band through the center of America.
This is the number of counties experiencing at least one day with over
125 degrees, it increases from 50 counties to more than 1000 counties.
That's not even triple digit, that's way beyond 125 degrees.
When that happens like randomly in India one day or something.
We talk about it every once in a while when it happens,
it is international news that's going to be happening basically every single
year to 1000 counties in one part of the country.
Now, I have more disturbing numbers here, but Jackson, let me know.
You think about this.
Well, The most disturbing thing is, you know, to think like, you know,
I'm just, I'm 30 years old and
just within my life I've seen climate conditions steadily worsened.
Whether it be hurricanes every year.
You know, the flooding that just took place throughout the midwest, including ST
louis where I'm from and just the heat, you know, just what you can see and
feel within your own life without looking at things at the macro data.
You know, I work out outside in the winter, I mean in the summers and stuff
like that and I'll go running and it'll be like, you know, upper nineties, but you
know, you're from out in these areas and it gets humid and it'll just be outside.
It's like, man, it's hot.
Like it's like, it's, you know, two And
again though that that increase, that means since over the next few decades,
we're gonna steadily feel that like it's not gonna be like some really slow thing.
It's gonna be like every year, it's hotter.
It's hotter.
It's hotter and the whole ecosystems getting thrown out of whack.
I mean entire food supplies for, you know, animal systems within the oceans
are being destroyed, which if impacts everything else.
It gets warm here and cold here where it shouldn't be that throws off the rains
everything is getting thrown out of whack.
You know, basically, also we can uphold the Petro dollar, but one of the things
that always brings me hope for this is I look back to how we used to put lead in
all of our products and it took decades for us to get lead out.
And it was for the same reasons that we're keeping our, you know,
greenhouse gasses going, it was all for money, but eventually that fight was won.
So unfortunately we're gonna have to make some, you know, extreme adjustments but
we're gonna have to win this fight or we're not gonna make it.
Yeah, yeah, and we're gonna make those extreme adjustments so
that in 2053 we don't have to make what seems like by definition extreme
adjustments to like not being able to go outside for months at a time potentially.
And of course look, people will have two people work outside, they're going to be
so many more people literally just dropping dead on the job and you know,
there's at least three more details to this I want to give and
there's so much more that's been coming out recently about this.
I would love to just do a whole show on it, but One is the reason we
focus on 125° National weather service uses that as the estimate for
when heat stroke becomes highly likely okay.
Also while there's no set temperature threshold at which roads bridges and
trains start to fail or water pipes break.
Recent examples show that it doesn't even take a 125 degree a day to overtax
essential infrastructure.
And that will be very much the norm in the scenario we're talking about.
So we're talking about literally whether that will kill people on a regular basis.
Also as with base basically everything, you'll be shocked to find out it's not
going to be affecting everyone equally here, estimates of the percentage of
population broken down by race affected by dangerous heat either in the current day,
which is the orange dots or 2053 which is the red dots.
So it will increase for all groups, but it is already higher for
black americans and they will reach a basically 80 percent will be
affected by this weather that is highly likely to produce heat stroke.
So if you're poor, you know, it's based on socioeconomic status based on race,
There's these inequalities baked into basically all of this Jackson and
we're gonna be seeing the climate effects of this unequally distributed as well and
going to be the billionaires that are sweating it out day after day
when these temperatures rise.
Yeah, but you know, eventually it will be, you know, so it may not be by 2053, but
they can't hold it off for too long before eventually it reaches out to them too,
which is, you know, the bigger arching problem, but
I was reading about las Vegas infrastructure a couple of days ago and
it was pretty interesting basically because you know, that city is located in
a place that until the gambling economy changed it, it's really not ideal.
It's one of the driest places on earth, but they pretty much recycle literally
every single drop of water that's used in the city.
They don't, you know, as of recently, they don't allow people to have like real grass
yard because it's, you know, it's a waste of water to keep that grass alive.
You know, things like that, it's gonna be what we're going to have to do in more and
more cities across the nation to where we're gonna have to make sure we don't
waste a single drop of water because rivers are drying up and
just our sources of fresh water in general are drying up.
So we're gonna have to see some remarkable feats of engineering over the next
few decades for us to maintain our future.
No, you're, you're totally right.
And that is why when they, when they talk about things like the green new
deal as being radical like that makes me feel rage.
This is radical.
Okay producing a country that can't sustain human life is radical,
spending money to fix it is not radical that's necessary.
There's one more detail.
So you might think, well, okay hot during the day, but you know,
it'll be dark eventually night, everything cools off.
Well right now.
It does take a look at these this information for what's going to happen at
night when looking at a more middle of the road forecast for future climate change.
This is not the extreme case of what might happen.
This is a middle of the road conservative estimate.
Hot nights becomes 76% more frequent by the end of the century,
the average intensity of a sweltering night doubles from less than 69 F,
nice to 103 and a half degrees Fahrenheit at night over 100 and
three degrees frequently, there will be no refuge from the heat.
Even once the sun goes down, we will continue to broil.
And by 2100, the risk of death from excessively hot nights is
expected to grow sixfold compared to 2016,
even under the most optimistic predictions of future global warming.
We're talking about people literally dying in their beds.
Thanks to this, but we're told that we're radicals for
wanting to transition away from coal relatively rapidly.
We're gonna have to start making settlements underground.
We're gonna turn into blind cave people rise of old men, right?
Sub sects, literally to get away from the heat.
You know, that's what we're dealing with in again, the craziest thing is just like,
you know, we can all of us can see this in playing out in real time that these
conditions are worsening.
Like actively worsening.
It's crazy.
100%.
Yeah. And and look, in theory,
the rich will be affected.
But I just see them building their, their like massive billionaire
archaeology is their habitats where they are born live and
die in air conditioning walled off from the rest of the world.
Using telepresence and remote work, sending out the peasants to
do their bidding out in the scorched wasteland that is the east coast.
And their structures just take care of themselves and and
they don't even have to worry about it.
It's like, yes, we've had this technology for many centuries now.
Yeah.
Yeah. And it and
it occurs to me that I regularly write science fiction literature,
I should probably start writing something like that.
But anyway, although I guess that's kind of elysium in some ways.
Anyway, said archaeology, I was that's what you said archaeology.
I was like, okay, yeah, just devastating.
There's so much more information if you want to everybody out there,
if you're interested in this on the hot nights.
Amazing new studies recently, the Washington post breakdown of this.
I think they're calling it like an extreme heat band across America.
There's so much more Meanwhile,
climate activists were filling in the holes in golf courses to
protest what are use exemptions in areas of extreme drought being
given to golf courses and they're being called the radicals.
Okay.
But I mean, that's practical though.
You know, I mean, you know, your, this is water that can potentially keep us alive.
That's keeping this grass alive.
Just so it looks nice for rich people to play golf on.
They could play on turf.
Exactly, activate challenge mode.
The entire course should be a sand trap, Real Man's Golf, Alpha Golf.
Anyway, by the way soon it will be a sand trap, Right?
Exactly.