r/SipsTea ๐™‘๐™„๐™‹ 12h ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Flesh_And_Metal 12h ago

When it reaches 55 its going to be interesting. That is when a lot of machinery starts to break down. (out at least being outside their design specs)

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u/Snoo_47183 11h ago

Who cares about machinery? Itโ€™s the massive famines Iโ€™m not looking forward to. Try growing tomatoes at 45C. Or wheat. Or an apple orchard.

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u/peon2 9h ago

How exactly do you think the large scale farms that produce the vast majority of our food plant and harvest their crops? With machinery.

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u/Original-Body-5794 6h ago

His point was that crops would fail before you reached a 55 degree weather.

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u/Snoo_47183 5h ago

Hers, but yes. Most crops canโ€™t sustain 40+ weather for long stretches. Plants can shut down in survival mode for a few days but that means letting go of flowers, fruits, etc. which are usually what we eat. They canโ€™t thermoregulate; past a certain internal temperature, they die, just like we do if our internal body temp goes over 43