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Google is adding extreme heat alerts to search to combat climate change
MSN ^ | March 29, 2023 | by Joe Wituschek

Posted on 03/30/2023 4:54:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Google wants to let you know when there is an extreme heat event in your area.

In a blog post, the company announced that it is bringing extreme heat alerts to Google Search. Google says that extreme heat events kill about 500,000 people every year and that search for extreme heat reached a peak in July 2022. The company hopes that, by surfacing alerts when people search, they will take the proper precautions when they are in an impacted area.

Google says that the alerts will be rolling out “in the coming months,” and when users search for extreme heat in an area undergoing an event, get details like when it is supposed to start and end as well as how to stay safe.

The company also announced that Tree Canopy, which works to increase tree coverage in order to cool down cities, is expanding from 14 to 350 cities globally.

The moves come as the planet continues to feel the impacts of climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Weather
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

1 posted on 03/30/2023 4:54:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like a lot of misinformation/disinformation/malinformation/LIES and threats of a dying planet coming our way.


2 posted on 03/30/2023 4:58:28 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

google, FB, etc should be banned with tik tok.


3 posted on 03/30/2023 5:15:03 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We all live under a neurotic mother culture now.

I remember when newspapers had a women’s section to handle all the woman’s worries of the world while the news needed to run the nation and deal with the world’s struggles for national success and survival could be in the front section.


4 posted on 03/30/2023 5:19:19 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That should do about just as much good as smokin’ a burlap sack full of marijuana.


5 posted on 03/30/2023 5:42:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Gun violence" ISN'T the problem idiots. People violence is the problem. Embrace the suck!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was not happy with apple’s iphone update last year which included an update to the weather app linked to weather.com.

When you click on the lower left icon, it displays a color map of your country region. It is so biased that the entire region is colorized shades of red, without regard to actual temperature differences.

At the time - last summer - it looked like the entire west coast was on fire.

google’s action is no shocker. They’re turning up the heat.


6 posted on 03/30/2023 5:43:18 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: adorno

The only extreme heat is coming from Google in the form of smoke.


7 posted on 03/30/2023 5:58:17 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm in central Minnesota, it's the end of March, 9° this morning with snow, sleet and freezing rain coming.

I'm not really concerned about Global warming.

8 posted on 03/30/2023 6:06:14 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Wow, they shut down FOX News pretty quickly!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thankfully, we have Google to tell us when it’s hot outside...


9 posted on 03/30/2023 6:17:31 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My California city already does this - extreme heat and cold alerts - asking us to check on elderly relatives and neighbors.

With the price of energy so high here - electricity and gas - I believe more people, especially those on fixed incomes, won’t turn on the a/c or heat b/c they can’t afford it.


10 posted on 03/30/2023 6:47:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder if this story would appear in an alert?....

A Hole In The Sun Could Wipe Out The Earth’s Power After Unleashing 1.8 Million MPH Winds
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-hole-in-the-sun-could-wipe-out-the-earth-s-power-after-unleashing-1-8-million-mph-winds/ar-AA19eUTu?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=1a7d84fe1dd74888b8641fb71fb45b8f&ei=34


11 posted on 03/30/2023 1:22:14 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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