Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

[wonko the sane?]

Canada's under an el-nino, so my spring (and my summer.) are looking to be cold and wet.

Which suits me just fine. The normal weather of 30C+ and 100% humidity is damned near debilitating.

 

[Fullstrength Motleypuss]

Not really. Particularly as it’s forecast for 5-6 days of weather 32C or hotter from this Sunday onwards. It’s very difficult to cope with when buildings don’t have air conditioning, and the majority of homes are made of bricks. Which isn’t great for dissipating heat.

Well, at least you're not being uprooted by tornado's every 3 days like mid/southern Illinois and Indiana.

 

[Rhinox]

It's muggy as hell, hot as hell and trying to wear my uniform and gear outside results in immediate swamp ass.

 

[Anonymous X]

Well, at least you're not being uprooted by tornado's every 3 days like mid/southern Illinois and Indiana.

Oh, I realise we’re lucky here in Britain mostly, as it’s just mild boring weather for the most part, and the more extreme events just don’t happen. (Yet?) Just it is miserable when heatwaves or actual snow happens, as everything is still built around the notion that weather is only ever going to be somewhere between 3-18C.

 

[wonko the sane?]

You should come to canada. I've survived -40C (almost -50C after the wind chill.) and dug my car out from on top. We also routinely get temps in summer between 45C and 50C after the humidex. Air so hot and wet you cannot breath, and even if you could, you couldn't sweat out the heat anyway.

Case in point, in quebec: the moving day for the majority of the population is on july 1st... usually the hottest day of the year. I've had to move sofa beds when the official recommendation was to throw yourself into a pool or an airconditioned building.

 

[Anonymous X]

You should come to canada. I've survived -40C (almost -50C after the wind chill.) and dug my car out from on top. We also routinely get temps in summer between 45C and 50C after the humidex. Air so hot and wet you cannot breath, and even if you could, you couldn't sweat out the heat anyway.

Case in point, in quebec: the moving day for the majority of the population is on july 1st... usually the hottest day of the year. I've had to move sofa beds when the official recommendation was to throw yourself into a pool or an airconditioned building.

See, I’ve (of course) heard about the harsh winters in Canada, but didn’t realise that summers could also be that uncomfortably warm in parts of the country. Sounds like the humidity is what pushes it towards weatherpocalypse status. Humidity is our greatest enemy. I should know, living 1km from the coast. :/

 

[wonko the sane?]

Yup, the oldest parts of canada are built directly adjacent to major water ways, and I live walking distance to the st-laurence river.

 

[Anonymous X]

39C (102F) forecast for later today. And tomorrow. I miss when it was predicted to be “just” 32C (90F) this week.

Really dislike how this is already a Boomer culture war issue, with them ranting about “snowflakes” who don’t understand the concept of summer, when they never will have personally experienced any sort of temperatures like this within the British isles.

 

[Anonymous X]

I am not enjoying this.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Did a quick Google conversion. For those of us using freedom units, 40 C is 104 F.

 

[Dekafox]

'El Niño is a distraction': Why is Europe becoming a deadly heat trap?

Europeans are sweltering under the latest heatwave, which experts say is being “amplified by long-term warming” – not El Niño.

www.euronews.com

 

[Pocket]

39C (102F) forecast for later today. And tomorrow. I miss when it was predicted to be “just” 32C (90F) this week.

Really dislike how this is already a Boomer culture war issue, with them ranting about “snowflakes” who don’t understand the concept of summer, when they never will have personally experienced any sort of temperatures like this within the British isles.

Remember also that one of the symptoms of aging is a loss of sensitivity to heat and increased sensitivity to cold (that's why so many old people move to Florida), so they're probably not even bothered by this.

 

[NovaSaber]

Not bothered by 32C/90F, sure.

But 39C/102F is higher than human body temperature. In a humid climate temperatures that high are an actual health risk, not just uncomfortable.

 

[wonko the sane?]

True: over 90% humidity, you're almost entirely incapable of sweating. There's no where for the evaporate to go, so it doesn't.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Well, we still sweat. It just doesn't evaporate. The air is full. We just lose water for nothing.

Humans are not supposed to live in Florida.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Or arizona. And yet: here we are.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

At least they have dry heat. This place is a steaming prehistoric swamp.

 

[Pale Rider]

At least they have dry heat. This place is a steaming prehistoric swamp.

Sounds like an ideal place for scaphism.

 

[Anonymous X]

Europe's heatwave 'linked to 1,300 deaths' as more records broken

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that Europe is not prepared for high temperatures.

www.bbc.co.uk

(Alt link for outside the UK: https://archive.ph/8WWXA)
I always hope that these extreme events are wake-up calls for millions, but they never are.

 

[NovaSaber]

Law against laws protecting the environment?

This is the dumbest timeline:

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30062026/florida-law-bans-net-zero-emission-policies/

I'm serious, if they brought back Captain Planet now, completely unchanged, everyone would say that Hoggish Greedly and Looten Plunder are based on Republican politicians.