Title is a little misleading as they are referring to Death Valley - but it looks like records could be broken in a lot of areas of the southwest US with temperatures approaching 120 degrees.
We are entering the "find out" phase a lot sooner and quicker than even my pessimistic self could have predicted.
I wish it were global cooling like I'd really rather freeze to death
Same. I want reglaciation so fucking bad. Give me vast frozen expanses and bring back the megafauna while you're at it.
I'm basically not leaving my apartment because I'm in one of these areas rn, it's too hot to be in the sun at all during the day. I feel so bad for people who are working in this shit
Same, SoCal is a misery right now. Thank god I got fired from my miserable warehouse job earlier this year. A fella could drop dead of heat stroke in that concrete oven.
When I worked at Amazon I was regularly soaked in sweat until around midnight and people would fight over work stations that caught any kind of breeze from fans.
We had fans in our stock room where I worked, thank god, but when it got busy (which was often) we'd either be out in the storefront (which had no cooling at all save for some swamp coolers that were useless if you weren't standing in front of them) or outside loading heavy shit like boxed ceiling fans, big light fixtures, or full sized sofas into peoples' vehicles. We'd get pretty drenched as well, needless to say. And of course if you stood around in front of the coolers to allay the misery, our prick manager would hassle us back to work.
Got to be nearly 100 degrees in there at times! I hydrated well and I'm used to the heat from all the time I spend out in the desert, and even I came close to heat sickness a few times. Fuck that place, and fuck Amazon too while I'm at it!
Really? Where I am it seems like the weather has been really temperate this year, and the 10 day looks like low 90s which isn't horrible for this part of the year.
I've not checked on what it looks like inland though
Inland is where I be. It's not like Indio hot around here or anything, but it's been just under 100 all this week, and it's due to be over 100 all next week.
I guess when looking at averages for July it's pretty high. I think I'm just so ready for miserable 100+ days in the summer that I assume it's all normal until it reaches peak miserable
(Also I was sad about June gloom but knew it would suck once it passed and yeah, here we are)
Same here, it's too hot to go outside where I live. Which is super unfortunate because I could really use some dopamine these days and I can't go for a run or cycling or even just walking. Big sad
My issue with all the bullshit we're dealing with and will have to deal with is that I, and about 7.9 billion other people, didn't fuck around but we still have to find out. I want off Mr. Capitalism's wild ride.
yes and the people who have fucked around the most built little bunkers to hide in.
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we never lived in a fair world governed by a benevolent force and should have been mercilessly slaughtering our rulers all along instead of expecting some kind of abstract justice in a future time or another world.
Those same people are also very stupid and will likely be killed by their own arrogance. Whether it's from a friend or family member that turns jealous and wants it for themselves or continuing with the laissez-faire approach to safety that ends up killing them too.
What's the point of a bunker? You can't "wait out" climate change like you can a bombing or something. You're gonna have to live in there forever.
they think they'll breed slaves or something and farm fungus. idk
they think real life is fallout
Some of the bunkers can get really elaborate so I assume at least some of them intend to stay there indefinitely, while others probably just want to wait out the conflict immediately following the collapse of the current order in order to emerge later and come out on top or something. Either way it's 100% copium that has arisen because of their material interests preventing them from looking the problems they're causing head-on.
On the bright side, that's like have way to free water desalination! 🫠
Climate scientists decades ago were saying 2020 was when we started entering climate catastrophe zone so this shouldn't be surprising. It's here folks hope you have AC
And all kinds of unsafe things we'll have to look out to quickly and cheaply address demand for things like AC. Asbestos might make a comeback for all we know
All the houses are insulated with asbestos because cheap is better than none. The grid experiences rolling brownouts because it's more profitable to upcharge electricity versus building new plants. The sky is permanently tinted red after geo-engineering it full of sulfur dioxide to dim the Sun. Agricultural outputs are down 10% every year continuously since dimming the Sun. The government views famine as a viable solution to climate change.
and we won't even get a peaceful euthanasia while watching a film strip with beautiful music like Edward G. Robinson
man i thought we would at least have like 10-15 years before we regularly dealt with this shit
For people who live in like Arizona, I checked the 7 day forecast and it's like 105-115 every single day. How can you live like that??? Seems completely bonkers to me. Is that typical for this time of year?
My sister lived in Arizona for a few years and there are week long stretches where it consistently reaches 110-120. She said the summers there are basically like winters for more temperate climates because no one goes outside and workers are told to stay home because there's going to be no business anyways.
I remember living in Phoenix without a car, barely enough money to travel by bus and in the end traveling by bus was about as fast as walking. I ended up walking like 15 miles in a day to get some basic shit which in the Arizona heat is ungodly. During the winter the walks weren't that bad, but once summer hit, it was awful. I did eventually get a bike that was stolen almost immediately. So my reading is, fuck that city. While it's easy to navigate a giant grid of stroads when you're going somewhere, holy shit it's not made for any sort of human life.
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Worked landscaping and conservation in AZ for years and never had a day off for heat fwiw. Ghouls gonna ghoul
I did landscaping for a summer, that shit is brutal. Got a sun burn across my neck that scabbed over because I was facing the same direction for several days that I occasionally sorta joke will be where the melanoma forms.
oh, we face those temps here in the tropics too. and its worse because its humid heat so your sweat doesn't even evaporate.
43ºC is like average in rio de janeiro's summer.
I would be dead in less than 24hrs. I've only been in 40+ a handful of times and it was always a super dry desert area
yeah i've had people come here from egypt or even from brazil's own savannah and deserts and say that this is a hellish place. its all in the humidity, yo.
Mfw i settle in an inhospitable wasteland and then make the wasteland worse, and now the wasteland is worse?!?
If you want to live in Arizona, why not live in the mountains where the climate is reasonable?
It's a big destination for "snow birds" because it's actually kinda nice in the winter
Yeah, it's doable if you work in an air conditioned office, but Arizona still needs roofers, road pavers, construction workers, and all the other jobs conducted outdoors under direct sunlight. And while wearing a stuffy uniform and safety equipment no less! Do they at least get better pay than comparable workers from states with milder climates?>
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We are entering the "find out" phase a lot sooner and quicker than even my pessimistic self could have predicted.
It's because the gradual lead-up period was predictably incremental for the last couple of decades. This led many to dismiss the true scope of the catastrophically disruptive forces that are now converging upon us. The doomsayers always warned us about crossing several key tipping points, and we will inevitably surpass them sooner than predicted. That's when it really starts to accelerate to civilization-threatening conditions.
We're getting blasted with Canadian wildfire smoke and Lake Erie is badly polluted but otherwise it's pretty good here.
News like this seriously make me consider whether I should try to save more money now so that I can be a climate refugee whenever and wherever in the future or if I should just not try to save much since I'll die early
I call this the Millenial's Dillema. Should I save money so that I have a better chance of surviving in the future? Or should I spend money now and enjoy life while I still can?
I I have a blackpilled emotion. I fully understand this is maladaptive but part of me feels... something that the people pressing the barbarism button really are in the worst place to deal with barbarism. All they have is their money and they are going to have to spend it to deal with the situation. Sooner or later somebody is just going to pop off and push a billionair infront of a taxi you know. Intellectually I realize this is going to be far worse for vulnerable comrades. But emotionally the softest people picking thr hardest difficulty just had a poetic feel you know
Weird that the US is actually hotter than Guatemala right now
Isn’t that pretty typical? Like isn’t summer there in the 25c range?
You're right lol. It's our winter right now and I'm in the hottest part of the country where winter is 29c for us. I just assumed that we always had hotter weather than the US.
