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 threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘

@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack @Barbramon1
Once when a bushfire was approaching my house, I went next door to tell my neighbour, who was new to the area. I had experienced a bushfire before, she hadn't. I told her the wind had turned and the fire front was now coming towards us.

Her response- " Well *I'm* not going to panic!" said in a scoffing tone meant to imply I was.

Another neighbour who'd been having coffee with the first excused herself to go and put some things in the car. She had also experienced bushfire before. 1/2

#climate #ClimateCrisisIsNOW

Jul 15, 2023 at 3:32amWeb
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Jul 15, 2023

@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack @Barbramon1
2/2 Less than an hour later, at a nearby " safe" area, cars were driving out of the smoke with residents clinging to the bonnet.

I believe the same dynamic is operating now. No-one wants to be accused of panicking. Everyone is waiting for someone else to give a signal. No-one wants to be the first to do anything other than go along with the flow of "normal" life.

The few who are, are mostly people who've experienced life-changing catastrophe before, who know that the worst *can* happen.

#climate #ClimateCrisisIsNOW