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Where will the tourists go? Europe’s winning and losing destinations due to the climate crisis
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Imagine traffic jams to get into Scandinavia while the Côte d'Azur burns.
I'm picturing the people sipping their martinis in the polar circle
I think there will be a time where the polar circles are going to be the only habitable place on earth
We did have temperatures like 8 degrees higher then today. It means rainforest covered large parts of the world. However the North European plain was also covered in water, which is a slight issue.
We've had much-warmer temperatures on Earth, but outside of when humans were around.
https://www.climate.gov/media/11332
If you're in Europe, 90°F is ~32°C and 50°F is 10°C.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
We can live in even the warm areas of an Earth like that, but it'd be unlike an Earth within humanity's experience.
That's pretty close to this summer