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[–] 65 points 2 months ago (25 children)
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  • [+] -11 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    Phoenix, Arizona: "first time?"

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    These aren’t people living somewhere unsurvivable without aircon in every building

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    As it turns out though, they are.

    They just don't want to believe it or plan appropriately.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I don't even know where to begin answering this comment, so I'll say just this: you should be ashamed of yourself.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    So you'll stick your head in the sand? You can't ignore the climate forever. You need air conditioning now, you are no longer in a climate where you don't need it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Some people simply don't have the means to do anything about it. Telling them "just deal with it" is like telling them to pull themselves by their bootstraps.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Not everyone has the means here either and even those of us that do often don't have the means to run it at comfortable levels- my AC is set to 30c in summer, 18c in winter. Just enough to be tolerable.

    But if you don't have the means, you need to find other ways to cool down - our general advice in heatwaves to the elderly (that are at higher risk and often don't have the means to run ac all day) is to go to shopping centres, public libraries and government buildings to stay cool.

    Drinks LOTS of chilled water.

    'Just deal with it' isn't that takeaway, it's if you do nothing, you will die. The government can't regulate the whether to be more amenable to human life.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    But if you don’t have the means, you need to find other ways to cool down - our general advice in heatwaves to the elderly (that are at higher risk and often don’t have the means to run ac all day) is to go to shopping centres, public libraries and government buildings to stay cool.

    Drinks LOTS of chilled water.

    WOW! None of us ever thought about that! I'm sure these people who died would have survived if only they knew about these excellent tricks!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, and I'm from australia, where normal temps can be higher than that too. You know what? We build appropriately. We hydrate. We use air con and shade. People are accustomed to it.

    I also recognise that many other countries are not used to these temperatures and that although we've faced them before in Australia, we are now facing them more often and with more intensity. Also, with more floods at other times. More droughts and more extreme weather events of other kinds.

    People are dying due to climate change. In this case, it includes two children who died in a car.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I swear until maybe a decade ago a hot day in the U.K. was about 17/18 Celsius.

    20 probably happened now and then.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    At least 18 people in France are dead from the heatwave; the Reuters story with that figure came out before this one, so NBC should have updated their story to avoid understating the impact.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    At least they're not including drownings in the figures this time.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    Celsius vs Fahrenheit Use Around The World

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    For those who are confused, 105 Fahrenheit is 313.7 Kelvin btw.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    This is the Internet. Please refrain from using inferior units of measurement which are only used by a fraction of the global population.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    This is about France. Please use °Ré instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    In Europe temperature is measured in C, not in F. I could never understand people measuring temperature in F.

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