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‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
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When I look at the weather app on my phone and it tells me of an “excessive heat warning”…. Yeah.
This summer so far I've had either a non stop smoke warning or a non stop heat warning. Or both!
Yep, same here. The smoke was so bad there for a while, I’m glad that has subsided.
But that's like everyday.
Shit we had an excessive heat warning in the middle of winter last year... It was like 90 fucking degrees. 2 weeks later we had snow!
That’s climate change for you. The extremes become more extreme, the weather can fluctuate near daily, and you can have events exactly like you described.