I see all these "heat advisories" being issued where I live and elsewhere, for temperatures around 98-100 F. How much you want to bet in a few years those temps won't be classified as heat advisories anymore, and it will be because corporate lobbyists managed to keep heat protections away from U.S. workers dying in the heat.
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We hit a record here in Seattle yesterday and are likely to tie one today. It's usually in the high 70s at this time. It will be around 95°F today. Tomorrow will be hotter and likely set another record. Get to a cooling center if you don't have AC. I honestly do not recall cooking centers being a thing prior to for our five years ago.
My dad back in Georgia called me yesterday because he saw on the weather channel that we hit 90 and he thought that a tad odd. I told him that this is in some ways more brutal than summer in Atlanta because at least all those buildings have industrial central air. I’ve got two portable units running just to keep my bedroom bearable
I just hit 100°F on 405. Good times.
You're really asking for it if you go to Death Valley during a heat wave. It's in the name.
I just don't understand how you die going there on purpose. Like it's in the name, are you not prepared?!?
People are kinda dumb.
where im at has been alright but the upcoming times does not look good. Im sorta hoping beryl disrupts things as it turns into storms overland without somehow raising humidity.
How long does it take, to stop being a "wave", and just become the new "high tied" of summer?
The thing is, this isn't a new normal. Climate change is still happening and will keep happening as long as we keep refusing to migrate off of fossil fuels. It will be hotter next year. And then hotter the year after. And then hotter. And then hotter. And then fucking hotter. It won't stop until enough of us literally die off to start mitigating it.
Journalists have to accept that climate change is real and republiQans who work agains solutions are working to kill us.
Let us know when that happens
Hottest summer of your life so far
Coldest summer for the rest of your life
I've read that it probably won't be, since we had El Niño this year too, making the year hotter than it otherwise would've been.
It's not going to be fun next year when we're not breaking quite as many heat records, and then we've got people saying "See? Last year was just a fluke. Climate change isn't a big deal!"
Most likely, yeah, but then that's only going to last for a few years at most. If you look at it in groups of 5 years together or so, I don't think it ever has been colder since like the 90s maybe. Or early 00s.
I don't disagree one bit. I don't think most people have that level of scientific literacy, though...let alone reading comprehension.
(Okay, "most" might not be the right word, but still...lol)
Remind me one year! Or, y’know, - is that feature even in lemmy? Eh, whatever. We’ll see. :)
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that's depressing.
According to Ron DeSantis, none of this is happening. And if it is happening, it's not because of climate change.
And if it is because if climate change, it is a good thing. And if it is not a good thing, it's the gays' fault.
Go woke get baked