Mother Nature Raises Hell this Summer - Liberal Propaganda
source: http://liberal-propaganda.blogspot.com/2011/07/mother-nature-raises-hell-this-summer.html
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"In this heat, it's not just about discomfort," said Latoya White, a health worker in the capital. "For many people it's about survival." Indeed, besides heat stroke and dehydration, Harvard recently published research showing hot weather raises the danger of heart attack.
Air conditioning is one way to escape the heat. But what do you do when your AC fails? Many units in Oklahoma have stopped working because "the units aren't really built to handle this kind of heat for this prolonged period of time." I've seen units failing in New York for the same reason. My parent's compressor actually burst even though they only cool to a modest 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
Don't try to flee to Canada either, because their central countryside is being ravaged by hundreds of wildfires:
These fires are being caused by increasingly hot weather, drier conditions and DAILY LIGHTNING STRIKES. These fires are so bad, they're polluting the air across the Great Lakes in Minnesota.
As if that's not scary enough, this heatwave actually gets worse at night. "While the current heat wave has recorded 12 all-time daily highs so far this month, it also has registered 98 all-time overnight highs," said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA went on to report that "when temperatures overnight do not cool to levels that provide relief, it increases the stress on people without air conditioning, on livestock and on crops" and that this is "consistent with what we would expect in a greenhouse-warmed world."
Given all of the above, it's very hard to accept this weather as "normal climate progression." Instead, it really feels more like Hell-On-Earth.
(all facts are cited with links in the original post at http://liberal-propaganda.blogspot.com/2011/07/super-congress.html)
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
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This is really great news! Perhaps people will quickly reach the point of discomfort that they will make the demands on government to reduce CO2 emissions, intensively plant greenways with CO2 absorbing trees, and fast track clean energy, and so much more!
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
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fernweher
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:
Even if we stopped ALL carbon emissions now, we would not see an improved climate. We can only prevent further destruction at this point. The MIT bathtub scenario shows how hard it is to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere, and how this means there is a huge delay on CO2 emission policy and actual effect. We have already screwed ourself, but if we stop now we can prevent even greater catastrophe: https://www.planetseed.com/node/15254
- 10 months ago
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fernweher
