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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I believe they call it a “heat wave”, CNN. That happens this time of year sometimes. You might not know that because YOU ARE FROM ANOTHER PLANET full of idiots!
It was 59 when I woke up this morning in MN. Had to throw a light blanket over me. I’m pretty sure this means we’re all gonna die of global cooling soon.
“Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and Nairobi, Kenya, and the author of the new book “The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.” Follow her on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
Good, then nobody needs to pay any attention to this blitheringly stupid nobody.
More fake news. It was 122 in June 1990, and even that wasn’t the all time record. We live in the desert, it’s called a heat wave, it’s called summer time in the Sonoran desert.
It’s the Summer Solstice. where does most of the energy heating the atmosphere derive?
Been in Las Vegas for three years now, not surprised in gets hot from now until November. What else would anybody expect?
“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.”
The stupid is strong with this one.
It’s hot in Phoenix and Las Vegas
Oppressed minority transgender womyn and children hardest hit.
[Imagine.......It’s hot in Phoenix and Las Vegas...............]
I know. And it has only happened since Trump took office!!!!!!
Can’t be a coincidence......
Trump’s fault. This has never happened before. He’d better be paying attention. LOL!!!
I lived in Phoenix back in ‘85. There were many days that got well over what the temp is out there right now. If I remember correctly, it even hit 120 a couple of times. Overnight lows in the city were in the upper 90s. CNN needs to be paying attention.
Jill, You ignorant slut, come on down to Alabama where temps have been below normal and it has rained 26 of the last 30 days. No global warming alarmist bullshiite down here, just a summer that isn’t.
What’s today Filipovic CNN morons? Oh yeah it’s the Summer solstice. It’s summer time in the northern hemisphere.
AND ITS ALL TRUMPS FAULT!!!!
It was never hot in Phoenix before, and look at it now.
It’s only cracked 85 a few times here so far this summer.
The watermelons are most affected.
From 06/12/2017
Sierra snow: Chains required on I-80 near Truckee [California ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3560242/posts
Are you paying attention Jill Filipovic? It’s called “weather”
There has always been weather that has been too hot or too cold and ended up costing lives. If the Leftwing global warming preaching morons actually gave a flying f--k about it, we would have cheap abundant energy in California instead of brown outs, so that even the poor could afford AC and heating.
Instead, they use the occasion of bad weather to manipulate us with junk science and hysteria that they don't really believe themselves.
Yes Jill, when he pulled out of the very sad Paris Climate Accord, Evil Trump had a “Phoenix, etc” thermostat installed right in the Oval Office. He will make them get snow next week.
So do they think Trump is an incompetent and incapable, racist buffoon or a god? One minute he can’t do anything right and the next they want him to control the weather.
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