Kevin RussellJul 14, 2023

You're going to read about the climate heat using these "normal" words but the temp above too hot, is death.

It doesn't just feel hot, it kills. Thats how hot climate "warming" gets.

"In Palm Springs — where Friday's high temperature was forecast to hit 116 degrees — many homeless people left to contend with the heat on their own.

"I don't know how anyone can do it," he said. "I feel so bad . . . there's not much I can do."

Build sun, wind. All of it, NOW
#Climate

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-temperatures-southwest-fire-risk-to-california/

One-third of Americans under heat alerts as extreme temperatures spread from Southwest to California

More than 100 million Americans are under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings as a blistering heat wave breaks records.

CBS News
Show threadBarbara MonacoJul 14, 2023
@kevinrns Normally Palm Springs doesn't open its cooling centers on Sunday-makes no sense to me-but they will do so this weekend. Unhoused can use those facilities. Obviously this is just a bandaid covering two festering wounds, homelessness and climate change. Both are tough, multifaceted problems that can no longer be ignored.
Show threadKevin RussellJul 14, 2023

@Barbramon1

Excessive heat hurts power grids. Excessive use from excessive heat hurts power grids.

Power going out, authorities warn, means "hundreds of thousands" could need medical care. Or worse.

Next year the temperatures will be higher.

The next year after that will be higher, because oil execs and politicians have lied for decades.

The next year, temperatures will be higher.

We have been warned.

We've been reassured, they were lying.

Build all the sun, wind, now.

#Climate

Show threadRevJeberJul 14, 2023
@kevinrns @[email protected] @Barbramon1 Humans never deal appropriately with existential crisis. Unless it’s happening today we ignore it. We’ll pay lip service to the problem but make no real progress. It’s a form of “out of sight, out of mind”.
Show threadBarbara MonacoJul 14, 2023
@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
It's happening today. More and more people who thought they were safe from the dire consequences of climate change are seeing those changes in their own back yards. When it's no longer an abstract concept people may be spurred to take action.
Show threaddaymJul 14, 2023
@Barbramon1 @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
That's a great shame as there's quite a lag between cause and effect, and positive feedback (marble balanced on an upturned bowl).
Show threadBarbara Monaco
@mikeday @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
Yes it is a damned shame. Researchers as far back as the 19th century knew that human activity was increasing the temperature of the planet. Since the 1970s, if not before, scientists working for Exxon accurately predicted the changes we are seeing today. They spent decades and $millions covering it up.
There's no turning back the clock. No matter what came before, we are where we are. Urgent action needed.
Jul 14, 2023 at 6:28pmWeb
Show threaddaymJul 14, 2023
@Barbramon1 @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
I wonder:
a) at what higher temperature the earths climate will stabilise at again once it really starts climbing, and
b) whether the earth might be better off without the human race anyway.
Show threadBarbara MonacoJul 14, 2023
@mikeday @jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack
Temperature may not stabilize, but swing back and forth to extremes.
This is perhaps a more dangerous scenario because even if humans could somehow adapt, our food sources would not. This year drought has put two thirds of US wheat crops and over 50% of corn and soy in danger.
Hope I am wrong, but I have long predicted that Mother Nature will swat us off the planet like so many annoying horse flies.