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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tomorrow is going to be 37

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That was just to August 6th. The last 4 days were also the hottest, so 40 days now. Assuming today is also the hottest August 11, tomorrow will be actually be 41. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hottest so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isolated islands catching on fire because it's so goddamn hot doesn't feel like surviving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's not true

Continents are also on fire

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

666 upvotes lol. It's hot as hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

…since 1979

Edit: not saying there’s not a climate change disaster happening, but some of these analyses are a little misleading.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find any indication that 1979 had a 36-day heatwave with anything approaching the temperatures we're seeing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the significance of 1979 is that's when we started keeping track of an overall global temperature day by day...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not terribly significant. The length, number of heat records broken, and sheer catastrophic scale of this heatwave is unprecedented. We don't have any reason to think anything remotely like this has happened in human history, and the fact that we didn't have the means to track the entire planet's average temperature prior to 1979 doesn't negate that.

Hawaii is on fire. Oregon is on fire. Canada is on fire. California is on fire. The winter in the southern hemisphere is unprecedentedly warm, and much of Australia burned over their summer. It's going to burn again.

This is an emergency.

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