Bread and Circuses on Nostr: Wow, Phoenix just went through 31 straight days at 110°F or higher. Can you imagine? ...
Wow, Phoenix just went through 31 straight days at 110°F or higher. Can you imagine?
Now, think about what happens someday if the electrical grid goes down and there's no air conditioning anywhere.
That's the hellish future our capitalist rulers are pushing us toward...
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The 1.6 million people who live in Phoenix, Arizona, just experienced the hottest month ever recorded in a city in the United States.
On Monday, the city’s high fell to 108° Fahrenheit — a temperature that might only be considered a relief after the hellish run that Phoenix was on: 31 straight days that registered 110° or higher. Temperatures dipped slightly this week in the nation’s fifth-largest city, but they’re expected to climb again by the weekend.
The city’s average temperature in July was 102.7° F, the highest ever measured in the U.S. outside of California’s Death Valley, a bone-dry desertscape that’s thought to be the hottest place in the world. Daytime highs in July averaged above 114°, and nighttime lows routinely stayed above 90°.
Amid the Southwest’s “heat dome,” which has lasted for weeks and at one point extended its grip around more than 100 million people, emergency rooms have filled with patients suffering a range of heat-induced injuries: from cramping, exhaustion, and dehydration to life-threatening burns caused merely by touching pavement.
Phoenix’s record-breaking temperatures are a microcosm of the world’s. Globally, July was the hottest month in 120,000 years. Scientists have warned that this summer’s extreme heat has been a sign of what’s to come as the planet warms. The outlook is grim. Of all natural disasters — hurricanes, floods, tornadoes — extreme heat is the biggest killer, responsible for some 600 deaths a year in the U.S.
Scientists have long been warning that climate change is making the world hotter. The Southwest’s heat wave, like the recent record-breaking heat in other parts of the world, was made significantly more likely by a changing climate. The world’s warming also means that heat waves are getting longer and hotter — and it’s increasing the chances of back-to-back heat waves, which can leave officials little time to respond to extreme heat before it strikes again.
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FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/extreme-heat/31-days-at-110-degrees-record-heat-tests-phoenixs-limits/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Now, think about what happens someday if the electrical grid goes down and there's no air conditioning anywhere.
That's the hellish future our capitalist rulers are pushing us toward...
___________________
The 1.6 million people who live in Phoenix, Arizona, just experienced the hottest month ever recorded in a city in the United States.
On Monday, the city’s high fell to 108° Fahrenheit — a temperature that might only be considered a relief after the hellish run that Phoenix was on: 31 straight days that registered 110° or higher. Temperatures dipped slightly this week in the nation’s fifth-largest city, but they’re expected to climb again by the weekend.
The city’s average temperature in July was 102.7° F, the highest ever measured in the U.S. outside of California’s Death Valley, a bone-dry desertscape that’s thought to be the hottest place in the world. Daytime highs in July averaged above 114°, and nighttime lows routinely stayed above 90°.
Amid the Southwest’s “heat dome,” which has lasted for weeks and at one point extended its grip around more than 100 million people, emergency rooms have filled with patients suffering a range of heat-induced injuries: from cramping, exhaustion, and dehydration to life-threatening burns caused merely by touching pavement.
Phoenix’s record-breaking temperatures are a microcosm of the world’s. Globally, July was the hottest month in 120,000 years. Scientists have warned that this summer’s extreme heat has been a sign of what’s to come as the planet warms. The outlook is grim. Of all natural disasters — hurricanes, floods, tornadoes — extreme heat is the biggest killer, responsible for some 600 deaths a year in the U.S.
Scientists have long been warning that climate change is making the world hotter. The Southwest’s heat wave, like the recent record-breaking heat in other parts of the world, was made significantly more likely by a changing climate. The world’s warming also means that heat waves are getting longer and hotter — and it’s increasing the chances of back-to-back heat waves, which can leave officials little time to respond to extreme heat before it strikes again.
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FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/extreme-heat/31-days-at-110-degrees-record-heat-tests-phoenixs-limits/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency