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WanderingEng  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Indians demand government action after temperatures hit 51C

That's insane. I do pretty well with higher temperatures as long as I have water and a chance to cool down. 95 F (35 C) with high humidity? Sounds like a good day to go biking. But that's going from an air conditioned home or office to working hard for an hour or two and then back inside a temperature controlled building.

I can't imagine having to live in temperatures like this with no relief.

Beyond the immediate human toll, we'll have to see if this becomes a trend both in Indian and globally. Climate change tells us we'll see more severe weather more often. Will peaks over 50 C become the new norm? How will people cope?





user-inactivated  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Beyond the immediate human toll, we'll have to see if this becomes a trend both in Indian and globally. Climate change tells us we'll see more severe weather more often. Will peaks over 50 C become the new norm? How will people cope?

Honestly? It's a scary thought. One of the reasons I tagged this as #poverty is because I don't think it takes much stretch of the imagination to see how climate change could hit the global poor the worse of all. I really, really hope we find a way to safely and efficiently handle these kinds of problems. If they really will become more frequent and more severe, a lot of people are going to need a lot of help.

user-inactivated  ·  2864 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The ozone layer is supposedly doing a bit better than it was 15-20 years ago. Hopefully that will help.

user-inactivated  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True story. I once got in an argument with one of my buds about climate change and he was swearing up and down it had nothing to do with human activity. So I brought up the whole ozone layer and asked him what he thought about that. He called it, and I quote, "A damning coincidence." He sounded exactly like Rush Limbaugh when he said it.