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This link from a Spanish Weather Forum provides some stunning images from Norilsk: Norilsk, la última ciudad
I don't think any other cold city can match this, not even Jakutsk. Even Oymyakon (not a city) has better summers. I don't think any cool gloomy city can get close. Rejkjavik or Ushuaia are paradises in comparison.
Obviously some will focus on hot cities, and there subjectivity comes. I'd say Makkah has worst weather in this regard, but Norilsk looks muuuuch more uninhabitable to me: 8 months of a frozen hell, with constant risks of frostbite. 3 months of rather miserable weather and just one acceptable month.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia forecasted maximum for tomorrow 41°C, it is still May
Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk krai, Russia forecasted maximum for tomorrow -2°C, it is already May
I always say the arid cities of the Sahel (Niamey, Khartoum), northwest India and Pakistan (Karachi, Jaipur, Delhi, Hyderabad), and the low deserts of the Southwest (Phoenix, Las Vegas, Yuma, Tucson). It can be lethal to live in the summer as wet-bulb temperatures can teach above 30°C (86°F) which means any physical activity can cause hyperthermia. Moteover, having mornings above 30°C (86°F) is just intolerable since one just cannot sleep. Mote than that, the summer humidity in these places – often seen as a “saving grace” for these horrible climates, is often high due to monsoons that do not always bring much rain, but do bring the dangerous wet-bulb temperatures noted above.
The paradox is that, as ecologists like Dustin Rubinstein and Carlos Botero have demonstrated, these dreadful climates, and similar ones in Australia, are critical to the existence of civilisation because they are so good at encouraging cooperative behaviour due probably to the generally very low heterotrophic biomass. In contrast, many of the very most hospitable environments – Europe, temperate South America, New Zealand – are naturally too egalitarian to allow civilisations to develop, as are the protein-rich polar regions.
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I don't think any other cold city can match this, not even Jakutsk. Even Oymyakon (not a city) has better summers. I don’t think any cool gloomy city can get close. Rejkjavik or Ushuaia are paradises in comparison.
Obviously some will focus on hot cities, and there subjectivity comes. I'd say Makkah has worst weather in this regard, but Norilsk looks muuuuch more uninhabitable to me: 8 months of a frozen hell, with constant risks of frostbite. 3 months of rather miserable weather and just one acceptable month.
Norilsk is certainly terrible, even though its existence is related exclusively to nickel mining (almost like a giant company town sitting on the richest ores of that metal outside New Caledonia). It not only has brutal winters but the summers are dull and rainy (up to 800 hours duller than interior Siberia due to the Arctic Ocean influence) and are even shorter.
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The paradox is that, as ecologists like Dustin Rubinstein and Carlos Botero have demonstrated, these dreadful climates, and similar ones in Australia, are critical to the existence of civilisation because they are so good at encouraging cooperative behaviour due probably to the generally very low heterotrophic biomass. In contrast, many of the very most hospitable environments – Europe, temperate South America, New Zealand – are naturally too egalitarian to allow civilisations to develop, as are the protein-rich polar regions.
Isn't that ignoring the fact that civilizations did develop in Europe?
Temperate South America looks like a harsher climate than higher altitude tropical central/south america, where the civilizations developed.
I don't think Australia could be regarded as having Aboriginal civilizations, just societies. NZ by comparison appeared to have a higher level of cooperative behavior and a more organized society
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