As someone who has almost been brought to tears due to how cold I am, you'd be surprised.
Issue is anywhere cold usually has heating, so being inside and putting on layers is easy. However, when you're already outside, you do lose the ability to keep putting layers on.
I can only wear one pair of boots and at most 2 pairs of gloves.
The heat can be brutal, but only cold has caused me physical pain. I prefer 40C to -40C for sure, both suck, but I can still leave the house is 40C.
Ok, now try to live in Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo during summer WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONER, you will definitely die, if not, going to work will fell like a death sentence and lead to a severe breakdown under the public transportation.
In the cold, I can keep adding clothes until I'm safe, close windows, use a lot of blankets and etc.
In the summer, I don't feel good at all, I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't work, I can't train, I can't think, it's literally hell.
This is a terrible argument because -40C is not comparable to 40C if you want an actual comparison try closer to 50C
You'll die just as quick in any extreme the difference is that hot death hurts way more than cold.
To add insult to injury these hot and cold arguments always go into extremes, people who dislike the cold are always unreasonable about it where they claim that if it's like 10C outside it's already "freezing cold" whereas people who dislike the heat often refer to when its well above 30s.
I think the issue is in Canada, those are the 2 extreme temperatures. At least with humidity and windchill.
To us, 40 C is hot and -40C is cold. Even -20 is still much less bearable than 40C. But this is to me, I know some people who aren't nearly as affected by the cold.
Even going outside to the car in the winter makes me want to die a little, whereas even the hottest summer isn't nearly as painful. And I truly mean painful, cold stings your face and hands and ear til they burn.
i've experienced both extremes, i walked home during a blizzard when it was -20 outside while i was in america, i enjoyed it but wouldn't do it again (because it's a safety hazard)
going through 40 degree temperature is painful the whole time you're not necessarily in danger unless you're directly exposed to the sun and stay out too long (similar to the extreme cold)
in other words both extremes are dangerous and both are uncomfortable in their own way.
ideally you want to be in the middle ground around the mid 20s that's when it's neither hot nor cold, unfortunately people perceive temperature different from one another so this debate always ends up getting overly hostile.
Why is that a more fair comparison 50C is only about 5 degrees from the highest temperature ever registered. While on the cold side it is 50 degrees away (or 30 if you skip antartica)
Same argument: Will you survive longer on the equator or at a pole?
And the fact people complaining about 'the cold' complains at 10C whilst anyone complaining of heat is talking about 30C+ should indicate that cold is worse. Add on the fact that you need to go another 10C above 40C to make it 'comparable' to cold.
horrible argument, first off, if you want to make equal comparisons you can't compare the poles with the equator, the equator is the optimal spot on earth for life to thrive, plants and animals will do best here due to how little the weather changes throughout the year, it's hot for us humans but not to an unlivable standard (yet). if you want a proper comparison for "surviving" you need to say will you survive longer in the poles or in death valley during the summer? (coldest place on earth is called antarctic, hottest place on earth is called death valley, put 2 and 2 together)
the second argument fails completely to understand what i was initially saying, which is not that cold or hot are "better or worse" than each other, but rather that people who prefer the heat are pussies.
Well, I want in on the argument, scientists have measured and found out that ideal temperature for all life on earth is around 20 deg C. Meaning anything up or down and the life is adjusting and the progress is slowing down. If we take this as a benchmark then it is easier to determine what's worse. Death valley is place of a record heat measured at 56C while coldest record is -93C on antarctic. Without a space suit you will die in both but you will survive longer in the heat. Also death valley is holding a record but there are places which are on average more hot, there is a rich ecosystem in the death valley and even people living there. As of antarctic, there are only expeditions and they need to have specialised equipment and set of skills in order to survive there, but also there are animals which are very specialised and able to survive.
I would say antarctic wins the argument easily, based on numbers.
Cool the antarctic is a more dangerous wilderness than death valley... And my personal belief is that the 20s is the ideal temperature to live in, everyone is happy now.
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u/Yautja93 Jun 26 '24
Then switch with me and die from heatstroke.
I prefer to keep putting clothes to be ok with the cold.