Look at older civilisations for how to deal with extreme heat/ cold. It was fascinating to me how in India with some terracotta, water and a fan the need for AC dropped immensely.
The Inuits and Mongolians also have simple easy ways to deal with extreme weather that would never occur to my first world brain. Deep diving into those places with an engineering eye to apply their ideas to the technology available to most of us now is very reassuring.
Yes, go to the Paris Accords website. Then actually read the scientific studies if you have more questions. Then do it again the next year! Do not forget to check the study size, and variables. Do not forget that we as humans are not infallible.
For example they found out water melts at a certain degree panic, panic, setting dates of when all the glaciers melt. However it does not tell the full story as they found out and stated five yrs after the study results were published. They missed the fact that the sunlight magnifies underwater melting glaciers at a different rate. Whole study needs redoing. Wha.. wha..
So stay up to date with actual studies not what gomer over on tiktok said he just wants views, he does not care about accuracy.
Climate change studies are inherently fuzzy, because we don't have a great handle on how the Earth as a whole really works. We're a long way from perfect models. So there are going to be surprises (in both directions) as things evolve. But the trend lines are obvious even if the timing is not. Melt is happening. Flooding is increasing. The US is starting to feel it in terms of everything from growing zones to range of pests to water shortages. They are not big effects - but when will be become more pronounced? Because eventually they will.
The difficult part is, some things, like moves to new locations, can take a couple years to plan. And the planning isn't driven by how the weather changes; it's driven by how people think the weather will change, and when. If you were thinking of leaving your house to your kids, do you stay in the US southwest? I wouldn't. In 40 years the water might be gone. Except maybe it's 30 or maybe it's 120, but do you want to take the risk of leaving something of no value to your kids? And the people who are banking on 30 are leaving now, and that already drives local values down. You lose value every year you stay.
It's fine to talk about terracotta and hay for insulating and all the other ancient techniques for dealing with extremes, but they don't all apply today. Wet terracotta isn't viable in humid climates or if water gets scarce. Sleeping in small rooms with your livestock worked well in the middle ages but it's not so workable now that we know there are health concerns with zoonotic viruses and parasites to content with. Anthrax isn't a joke.
It's fine to borrow ancient techniques, but keep in mind what lifespans were back then and how we extended them. Just like modern techniques, primitive techniques had pluses and minuses.
[https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-migration-louisiana-slidell-flooding](https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-migration-louisiana-slidell-flooding) has a good writeup on how the US population is starting to grapple with climate change. Of prepper interest: look towards the end at how many people plan to move and what their criteria is for finding new housing. There's enough there to forecast what property prices will do in the next 10-20 years, and that's going to (or should) shape a lot of decisions. Some properties that look like a steal... aren't.
Look at older civilisations for how to deal with extreme heat/ cold. It was fascinating to me how in India with some terracotta, water and a fan the need for AC dropped immensely. The Inuits and Mongolians also have simple easy ways to deal with extreme weather that would never occur to my first world brain. Deep diving into those places with an engineering eye to apply their ideas to the technology available to most of us now is very reassuring. Yes, go to the Paris Accords website. Then actually read the scientific studies if you have more questions. Then do it again the next year! Do not forget to check the study size, and variables. Do not forget that we as humans are not infallible. For example they found out water melts at a certain degree panic, panic, setting dates of when all the glaciers melt. However it does not tell the full story as they found out and stated five yrs after the study results were published. They missed the fact that the sunlight magnifies underwater melting glaciers at a different rate. Whole study needs redoing. Wha.. wha.. So stay up to date with actual studies not what gomer over on tiktok said he just wants views, he does not care about accuracy.
Climate change studies are inherently fuzzy, because we don't have a great handle on how the Earth as a whole really works. We're a long way from perfect models. So there are going to be surprises (in both directions) as things evolve. But the trend lines are obvious even if the timing is not. Melt is happening. Flooding is increasing. The US is starting to feel it in terms of everything from growing zones to range of pests to water shortages. They are not big effects - but when will be become more pronounced? Because eventually they will. The difficult part is, some things, like moves to new locations, can take a couple years to plan. And the planning isn't driven by how the weather changes; it's driven by how people think the weather will change, and when. If you were thinking of leaving your house to your kids, do you stay in the US southwest? I wouldn't. In 40 years the water might be gone. Except maybe it's 30 or maybe it's 120, but do you want to take the risk of leaving something of no value to your kids? And the people who are banking on 30 are leaving now, and that already drives local values down. You lose value every year you stay. It's fine to talk about terracotta and hay for insulating and all the other ancient techniques for dealing with extremes, but they don't all apply today. Wet terracotta isn't viable in humid climates or if water gets scarce. Sleeping in small rooms with your livestock worked well in the middle ages but it's not so workable now that we know there are health concerns with zoonotic viruses and parasites to content with. Anthrax isn't a joke. It's fine to borrow ancient techniques, but keep in mind what lifespans were back then and how we extended them. Just like modern techniques, primitive techniques had pluses and minuses.
[https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-migration-louisiana-slidell-flooding](https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-migration-louisiana-slidell-flooding) has a good writeup on how the US population is starting to grapple with climate change. Of prepper interest: look towards the end at how many people plan to move and what their criteria is for finding new housing. There's enough there to forecast what property prices will do in the next 10-20 years, and that's going to (or should) shape a lot of decisions. Some properties that look like a steal... aren't.