True, but we need to get them to acknowledge that okay, it was 102° F one day in 1972. Yesterday and today were the first days in 2 weeks or more where the high was less than 100° F where I live.

It was not this hot for weeks in 1972.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hell, you don't even have to go back to 1972. I remember in my area growing up (90's), breaking 100 was something that would maybe happen one or two days out of a whole summer, and it was a whole thing - treated in the same way you might treat a really bad storm in winter.

This summer half of every week has been above 100 since July - our "breaks" from the heat are like mid-90's.

I wonder how bad it's going to have to get before everyone who isn't literally mentally ill will have to admit that this isn't normal

[–] Slwh47696@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I live in Canada and it feels like half the country has been on fire this summer. The Premier of my province doesn't even think climate change is real and is currently stripping away environmental protections from our best land so his buddies can build subdivisions and destroy it