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.
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As a child I read a book of folk tales of the Southwest. One of them was about a cowboy trickster who when he was told that he was going to be sent to hell proclaimed “but it is nearly as hot there as Texas during branding time!”
If Trump had put pen to Paper in Paris it would be 30 degrees cooler today. Barack always made sure it was under 85 in LA. I sure do miss him.
And the government can’t do one blasted thing to make it 1 degree cooler.
Death Valley still holds the record at 134.
I see loneliness ameliorated by many cats in her future...
Newsflash by CNN...
The desert is hot. Anderson Pooper slams denier Trump TONIGHT!!
ROTFLMAOPIMP...this will NEVER happen...have fun with your ‘climate change cult’.
Which is a direct result of Pres. Trump not signing the Paris Accords. Accordingly, Death Valley will be re-named Trump Valley to be marked with a giant gold sign. France will pay for the sign.
“Heat index says otherwise.”
Heat index is not a measure of absolute temperature. It is like the chill factor, a combination of temperature and moderating influence, in this case humidity. The higher the humidity, the higher the heat index relative to absolute temperature. In the chill factor, the influence tends to be wind speed.
Right now I live in a heat wave area where I recall some years ago that less than four days in June had temperatures less than 100 degrees. This is a moderate heat wave and the temperature will be 108 or so today, up to 111 or more tomorrow. Several years ago my husband and I installed out paving stone patio when the temperature was 115 degrees. We had no idea it was that hot while we were hauling heavy stones and only confirmed it after we finished and were back inside.
By contrast, I grew up in an area where the chill factor was carefully monitored and it wasn’t unusual to have temperatures of 10 below with a chill factor of 35 below.
Phoenix highest temperature recorded on June 26, 1990, the temperature reached an all-time recorded high of 122 °F (50 °C).
Jill, please help us. It’s NEVER been this hot here before. /s
That’s why I chose my screen name.
122° - June 26, 1990
121° - July 28, 1995
120° - June 25, 1990
Jill Filipovic is so blazingly moronic that I wonder how she places one foot in front of the other to walk without direct assistance.
Hot in Phoenix in late June...blame Trump.
Two scoops of 'Melting in Nevada', please!!
I guess Kennedy or Johnson were responsible for the hot summers I had as a kid. Fishing was better once Nixon got elected.
Makes perfect sense now.
Well then I’d better quit reading those books describing the heat in the desert areas then.
And it does this in Phoenix every June. 118. Yep.
WOW!!!! Its HOT in Death Valley!!! Before Global Warming, it was a jungle!!!
Idiots.
Cats and dogs, living together!
That’s life down here. Kind of brutal today as we had thin clouds roll in last night and hold in all the heat. A morning low of 89 is just plain not right. But this too shall pass, things are due to mellow out next week.
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