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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She was even stupid enough to mention The Bay Area in her screed about high temps. It is in THE SIXTIES.
She is a moron.
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There’s dry heat as in DV and wet heat as in Kuwait where adjusted for heat and humidity the apparent or felt temperature was 165F
My first trip to Phoenix, I was at the airport checking in for my return flight.
The ticket agent picks up one of my suitcases and says to me “A case of Coors?” He was right. LOL!
I use to bring home a suitcase full of White Castles Sliders after the Indi 500 every year!
(Stopped that when they started to charge for check bags. Didn’t have the heart to put the stinky things in the carry on overhead!)
Southwest wouldn’t put my bag of BBQ sauce (packed in blue jeans) in the overhead. There were very few people on the flight, too.
I was not happy. I said, don’t break a bottle. They didn’t. But I was sure I was going to be washing BBQ jeans.
I bought the bag at Venture. While my Hertz Thunderbird roasted in the parking lot.
Went to Planet Hollywood but only bought a small souvenir cup.
And Shillary will be there!!!!! Repent now!!!!!!!!! LOL!
Yes, or as they call it, “The Heat Index.”
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
LOL. It’s 83 degrees here in South Orange County (San Juan Capistrano, CA). Very pleasant with a nice ocean breeze.
Plus, in California, the summer alpine resorts hope half of them will be open by July 4. Some are already offering “snow checks” to people who made reservations last year but whose cabins are still inaccessible due to snow. They’ll be first in line for next summer if the snow melt goes faster then.
I could see that happening.
That same year, I got an old Triumph Spitfire. I thought that a convertible would be nice to have out there. But those black vinyl seats ... DANG!!!!
Exactly. /MSM (i.e. /sarc)
The southwest is a desert - which is why it had to be irrigated.
There is no hope for useful idiots.
Oh no. Not wildfires. Those never happened before.....
Milk will be 200 dollars/gallon
I just drove from Phoenix to Las Vegas Monday in a car with no Air Conditioning just windows wide-open ...it wasn’t so bad
And FYI there’s still snow on top of Mount Charleston in Las Vegas right now
global cooling and the coming ice age...we will all die!!!!
Oh, please, Phoenix always broils this time of year.
Oh noeeee! We’re ALL gonna die at the hands of the Sun!
The southwest broils every summer dumbasse
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