Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Then just air-to-air heat pumps against the heat (they can also heat, are even subsidized) and night storage heaters against the cold (they are still allowed). The old heat pumps with PFAS refrigerants must be torn out in a few years anyway. Somehow amusing what's happening at the moment..

And what do you do about 2-3 billion climate refugees who can no longer live in Southeast Asia in the second half of the century? I barely endured it in Shanghai in the summer of 2012. And Shanghai is still mild. In southern China, it is even more oppressive.

Humans have continually evolved under pressure. Either through evolution or through technical revolution

Humans have continuously evolved under pressure. Either through evolution or through technological revolution

That would indeed be quite a feat, because for that humans would have to adjust their body temperature within a few decades to be able to live at constant temperatures above 40°C and high humidity.

But from you, it’s usually just hot air anyway. Or am I confusing you?

Humans have always evolved under pressure. Either through evolution or through technological revolution

Evolution in this case means migration or death.

+3 degrees is almost +6 degrees inland. Aside from that, sea level rise will then approach +1m/century. This affects Hamburg just as much as NY as Bangkok as... etc.

Even the greatest optimists cannot say what an adaptation might look like that does not include population reduction.
Blessed is he who then lives in the 1st world.

It is the price of technological progress, which ironically is paid most dearly by those who benefited least from it.

A practically viable way out (not just a theoretically possible one) is not in sight. It’s about mitigation, temporal stretching, long-term plans for certain plausible cases.

We are trying the first and second. The last we ignore (for now). Because in extreme cases the conversation is always about rescue vs. total demise, to justify agenda setting.

A few current building material prices compared to 05/2022. Some items have become more expensive, but some have also become cheaper. Here are a few excerpts. The total difference for the -complete- shell construction amounts to +0.29%.

Product 05/2022 04/2023

Aerated concrete per m³ 142.38 148.48
Foam glass gravel per m³ 86.20 94.25
Concrete C16/20 per m³ 109.20 133.98
Concrete C25/30 WU per m³ 121.90 146.21
Erlus chimney 2471.00 2219.00
Reinforcing mesh Q335A 171.82 78.94
Rebar IV S 8 per KG 2.26 1.06

The explosion of all building materials and interest rates by 8% at last year's turn, talked up by 1-2 users, apparently did not occur....