• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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            7 天前

            As it turns out though, they are.

            They just don’t want to believe it or plan appropriately.

            • Damage@feddit.it
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              I don’t even know where to begin answering this comment, so I’ll say just this: you should be ashamed of yourself.

              • ms.lane@lemmy.world
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                7 天前

                So you’ll stick your head in the sand? You can’t ignore the climate forever. You need air conditioning now, you are no longer in a climate where you don’t need it.

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                  7 天前

                  Some people simply don’t have the means to do anything about it. Telling them “just deal with it” is like telling them to pull themselves by their bootstraps.

            • Axolotl@feddit.it
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              Except that those temps aren’t normal for those zones…this year, for the first time, i turned on my AC for more than 1 day because it’s just too unbearable

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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          Yeah, and I’m from australia, where normal temps can be higher than that too. You know what? We build appropriately. We hydrate. We use air con and shade. People are accustomed to it.

          I also recognise that many other countries are not used to these temperatures and that although we’ve faced them before in Australia, we are now facing them more often and with more intensity. Also, with more floods at other times. More droughts and more extreme weather events of other kinds.

          People are dying due to climate change. In this case, it includes two children who died in a car.

            • mjr@infosec.pub
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              7 天前

              The 1976 summer oldies rant about is now not even in the top ten UK hottest days.

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              I’m in my 40s. London is usually a few degrees warmer than ireland where I grew up. The temp was often mid 20s for a week or two every summer. 30 was not normal but is now more common.

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              5 天前

              Imagine not taking the death of 40 people and 2 kids seriously, for the lolz.

              There is having fun and making memes. And there is being callous. Read the room.

        • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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          Totally normal to compare a standard temperature found in a literal desert and never seen before temperatures in a usually temperate climate.

      • bridgeburner@lemmy.world
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        6 天前

        Yeah if u live in the Sahara desert lol (for u US-Americans: the Sahara desert is a big desert on the African continent. I hope I don’t need to show you where the African continent is as well).

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    At least 18 people in France are dead from the heatwave; the Reuters story with that figure came out before this one, so NBC should have updated their story to avoid understating the impact.

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        7 天前

        Surely it’s appropriate to include drownings if more people are getting into water to cool off?

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    5 天前

    In Europe temperature is measured in C, not in F. I could never understand people measuring temperature in F.

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      For those who were confused by Kelvin like me, it’s equivalent to 564.67 Rankine

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    This is the Internet. Please refrain from using inferior units of measurement which are only used by a fraction of the global population.