Posted on 06/20/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come.
Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.
Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.
A delayed flight out of Phoenix will soon be the least of our worries.
If you're stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment.
You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement. And you can show your displeasure by refusing to support candidates who don't take climate change seriously, and don't do whatever they can to keep the world inhabitable.
Anything less is global suicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I spent many vacations in Phoenix as a child. I can tell you it was HOT. The Chamber of Commerce tries to spin it as a “dry heat”.... Maybe many years ago prior to all of the golf courses and endless gated communities. It i hot and humid, but in no way unusual.
Actually the hottest recorded temperature is 131F in Tunisia back in 1931. Sure that was Trump’s fault, too. /LSM
Not the best day for a trip to the Rose Bowl.
Oops, a higher one was measured in Death Valley: 134.1F in 1913.
Again, sure that’s Trump’s fault. /MSM
The NE US has been very cold and wet over the last two months... Two weeks ago it was only 52F for the high out here in eastern long island... The high was lower than the average low for the day!
It happens....
Here in Florida we have two seasons.
Hot and really hot
The ultimate hubris is thinking that mortal man can control the weather. LOL>
She needs a red pill suppository
It the national enquirer in motion
If only he signed that paper it wouldn’t have gotten so hot there in the south US - if only.
Omg! If she see this she’ll burst into flames
Phoenix highest temperature recorded on June 26, 1990, the temperature reached an all-time recorded high of 122 °F (50 °C).
I had almost made it home from work, stopped at the babysitter to pick up my daughter, and BINGO my car battery died. There were so many other drivers with the same problem that I had to wait three hours to be rescued by AAA. What a day that was!!!
“The highest confirmed temperature on Earth recorded according to these measures was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on July 10, 1913.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth
Keep hope alive! lol
Sorry to hear about your brother
I know I’m probably going to hell and my only regret is the beer will be warm
“Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.”
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!
Jill Filipovic is a dumb, clueless broad based in New York and Nairobi.
Rush mentioned that it was just as hot in Arizona one year ago, in June of 2016, but there was no mention of it in the “media” because Obama was president.
This dimwitted feminist wants us to spend trillions of dollars of taxpayer’s money and destroy six million dollars to maybe, just maybe, lower the Earth’s temperature by two-tenths of a degree one hundred years from now. Yeah, right.
You pay 100% of YOUR income to these globalist dirtbags, Jill.
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