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   Earthling of the Rhine (amikigu@social.wxcafe.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 01:08:38 JST Earthling of the Rhine

   Over the past few decades, I recall seeing maps showing Europe and the US being barely affected by climate change, while showing India and sub-Saharan Africa as most affected. While this probably is how the average yearly temps across the planet will play out, the variability in temps and precipitation in the EU and US seems like it will increase and be ever-more sporadic, meaning that all those rich Western countries... 1/

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     ... ,who thought they could continue extracting and consuming while thinking that others would bear the brunt of climate change, are likely in for just as much climate-change related damage to their societies as anyone else. I wonder to what degree this focus on temperature instead of climate variability was the result of corporate pressure, the same way health officials across the west are downplaying COVID? 2/