It’s already getting too hot and humid in some places for humans to survive

theverge.com ^ | May 8, 2020 | Justine Calma

[Keyhopper]

Oh that a bad idea. You either mow in the morning or after 5pm. Midday is a really bad idea.

[MarvinStinson]

"A Pulitzer prize-winning series by The Washington Post took this sort of approach"

[lepton]

doubled between 1979 and 2017,

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Ah, the 70s. A time when temperatures globally were proclaimed to be abnormally low.

So how about 1998-2017?

[lepton]

living in Phoenix where we hit our record high temp of 122 degrees 26 years ago now... My house does not even have an air conditioner, just a swamp cooler!

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Quite aside from their hyperbole, and using a relative low point in recent temps as a starting point - you missed the reference to the humidity being combined with the heat.

Your swamp cooler that keeps you cool at 110 in dry air, won’t keep you cool in the 90s during very high humidity.

[Mark17]

It’s above 85° every single day of the year here. 😁

[AzNASCARfan]

Yeah I get it... End of July and August are pretty crappy around my house and probably going to have to break down and put an A/C in just for those two months. My wife has COPD and last year was tough on her those couple months with the super high humidity inside. That said the change is because of her, not the weather or climate change. I know going up to Oregon and visiting my mom, that 85 seems much more uncomfortable there than 110 does here most of the time.

My main point was living in one of the hottest places in the US for the past 35 years, it does not seem any hotter now than our record high 26 years ago even with all the global warming going on... and we have added a whole bunch of heat retaining building materials like asphalt and concrete over those years.

[GOPJ]

Yep, heart attack city...

[Keyhopper]

Heat stroke