• Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This was not a good year for me to pick up Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry of the Future” book

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Although sea surface temperatures are also setting records this year, we have yet to feel the full impact of the warming of this phase of the Southern Oscillation.

    For those in the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has yet to release data on August but found that July was the 11th-warmest month on record in the contiguous 48 states.

    So far, it has worked out how climate change may have influenced three heat waves that happened earlier this year, along with the weather that fostered wildfires in Canada.

    More relevant to this summer, the team looked at heat waves that struck China, Europe, and North America in July.

    The attribution project looked at the warm and dry conditions that helped fuel the spread of these fires and found that climate change has made it twice as likely.

    Combined, it’s difficult to escape the conclusion that, for much of the Northern Hemisphere, the summer would have looked very different if it weren’t for the climate change that our carbon emissions have driven.


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  • anewbeginning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here in Portugal it felt less hot than the last couple of years. Still hotter than what it used to be when I was younger.

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    This summer was very wet and cold with few sunny days and far more rainstorms than I’m used to for summer. Perhaps other places found it hotter but for me it was an unseasonably cool summer.

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      1 year ago

      It definitely was hotter here. We’re a week into September and it’s still going to hit 109F today. That’s absurd. Thankfully we’re FINALLY going to start cooling off tomorrow, when it will ‘only’ be 98F.

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        Christ, and here I thought working in a 95° factory was bad… 110° is insane especially if you have the humidity we do…

        We “cooled off” today, down to 85° and 80% humidity… nothing like suffocating at work lol

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        1 year ago

        Yeah actually September and July were quite hot for me too. I guess the cold August was just so bizarre for me that I’ve been focusing on it.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m in Florida and it’s been fucking hell. Even more so than usual. And now a second hurricane is on the way…

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    I know there’s big trouble ahead but currently the summers here have just been getting better and better. Talk about conflicting feelings.