Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

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Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extreme-heat-event-london-cancelled-b3001379.html

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  • grueEnglish
    211·
    1 month ago

    You are off by many orders of magnitude.

      • Womble@piefed.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        For a little context, saying our sun is seconds from dying is about as accurate as saying the universe will undergo heat death in billions of years (taking heat death to be no more active stars left in the universe).

        • VictorEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Comparing orders of magnitude or comparing proportion?

    • VictorEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      A trillion can still be counted in billions. Same as all the other orders of magnitude above that. 👍

      • grueEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        We’re talking about big enough numbers to whip out the scientific notation. Even counted in billions.