Heat is the number-one weather-related killer in the world, with more than 600 people dying from heat-related illnesses every year in the U.S.
  • @octavio_dingus
    25•2 years ago

    So at what record temperatures do we start giving outdoor workers hazard pay?

    • @DemonSlayerB
      5•2 years ago

      That’s what I’m saying. I’m already borderline heat stroke by the time I’m almost done with yard work. And that’s only about an hour and a half outside.

      • @LaunchesKayaks
        1•2 years ago

        I have a lot of health issues and get really fucked up in heat and humidity. Not to mention the smoke from Canada killing my lungs.

        I’ve had to pay a guy to mow and weedwack my yard this year because I can’t physically do it myself. Last time I tried weedwacking, I got 5 mins in and almost passed out.

  • @schroedingershat
    20•2 years ago

    As we suffer over the next three years, it would pay to remember that this is the warmup round. It’s not over when the nex La Nina offers a brief reprieve.

    Perhaps it’s time to prioritise survival over the profits of the shareholders?

    • @huquad
      6•2 years ago

      Completely agree, but let’s wait another year just to be sure /s

  • @wet_squid
    13•2 years ago

    insert „this is fine“-meme

  • @DarkKnight_
    3•2 years ago

    I have to head out to Houston next week for work and I am not looking forward to how hot it is down there. I can’t even handle the heat up in here in the northeast.

    • DagonPie
      4•2 years ago

      Yeah but its been so disgustingly humid up here. At least in Houston it will feel like youre being baked to death and not smothered with a hot wet blanket…to death.

      • @sandpiper
        16•2 years ago

        I’ve got bad news for you if you think Houston isn’t humid.

      • swiftcasty
        0•2 years ago

        It’s been 100+ with daily thunderstorms for the past two weeks in Houston 🥲😢

    • Igloojoe
      1•2 years ago

      You missed all the rain and overcast we got this week. Was not as miserable. Next week, we’ll be back to triple digit heat and full blazing sun.

      • @DarkKnight_
        1•2 years ago

        I’m staying right by a rail trail/path whatever you want to call it. I was going to bring my running shit and get some runs in during the early morning; you think it’s worth for me to even do that?

        • Igloojoe
          1•2 years ago

          Ya. Mornings arent bad. Just usually super humid. So dont be suprised that you cant catch your breathe as usual. I usually go for a jog after sundown, but thats because i’m not a morning person

  • bioemerl
    3•2 years ago

    Thanks for that regulation that killed sulfur emissions from ships and made our problems worse guys.

    • @schroedingershat
      3•2 years ago

      Made our problems visible now.

      They were already this bad, SO2 just masks them for a couple of years.

      • bioemerl
        -1•2 years ago

        Made our problems worse by creating a massive spike in temperature that should have been slowly eased at worst, and risks catastrophic results as that spike takes it’s toll.

        • @schroedingershat
          2•2 years ago

          Which is far fewer people that will suffer and die than if we hadn’t had a wakeup call of the damage that was already done finally effecting the global north instead of just the developing world.

  • @huquad
    3•2 years ago

    That’s a turkey! Gobble gobble

  • Koordinator O
    0•2 years ago

    And how does that stand compaired to calculated temperatures from arctic and antarctic ice probes. I dont now the numbers there. Is it higher or lower? Does anyone now a source where you can read those calculations?

    • @schroedingershat
      6•2 years ago

      They don’t have daily resolution. The daily records only go back a century or so.

      But we’re well into hottest temperatures homo sapiens have ever seen and flirting with the hottest homo has ever seen for long term trends.

      • Koordinator O
        0•2 years ago

        Sad. that would have really interested me.

  • @ZeroDrek
    -1•2 years ago

    I’m confused, the article says

    average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit

    I must not be understanding something cause to me that’s not very hot.

    • @Hawke
      19•2 years ago

      “Average” tends to work that way.

    • Frog-Brawler
      18•2 years ago

      That’s combined for both hemispheres… including the hemisphere that’s currently experiencing winter.

    • iAmTheTot
      7•2 years ago

      Not very hot for a chill autumn day. Very hot for the Arctic circle. That’s how averages work.

    • PlatinumPangolin
      3•2 years ago

      Here’s the best graphic I’ve seen for putting the numbers in context: https://xkcd.com/1732/

      It’s slightly out of date so we’re actually at roughly +2 degrees C.

      Basically, from year 0 CE to 1000 CE there was basically no change in average temperature. Then from 1000 CE to 1900 CE temperature actually went down about .5 degrees. Since then, we’ve gone up 2.5 degrees. So the past two thousand years temperature changed a total of .5 degrees down. We’ve increased about 5 times that in the past 100 years.