Yep, and Americans answering with "we're ok because we have AC" is a Don't Look Up moment

the ~~planet is~~ humans are really fucked

Let me put it this way:

My grandparents built a brick house in the early 1950's in northern Germany. My parents built on that foundation and doubled the size in the late 1980's. Air conditioning was not a thing back then. You just didn't need it at all.

For decades this house has kept a relatively cool 24-25°C (~75°F) during peak summer months. Just due to the way it was built.

That hasn't been true for the past ~10 years anymore.

And it's the same with almost all German infrastructure. Our traditional ways of building things are not fit for the frequent high heatwaves we've been experiencing this last decade. Even hospitals are generally not AC'd except for maybe ER and operating rooms. It's fucking miserable

It's fucked, and we were warned decades ago and did nothing but drill, baby, drill.

A lot of people will die. Which I'm pretty sure they're fine with, less people= less expenses for social welfare programs, lower property values, and so on

"They" being the people in charge of our world-wide MegaForce economy, think JP Morgan and those who "serve" terms at The FED. (in actuality, they take turns reaming us, inflation is how central banks raise taxes without congressional approval).

Don't worry, we're in the middle of a massive culture war at the moment, so there's absolutely no chance we can take steps to stop it unless we find a way to bury MAGA for good

As an Australian, I am shitfucked....

Time to build a robot to look after the dog when I'm gone...

It won't take alien invasions, it won't take world wars using nukes. It will simply be humans living day to day, consuming and altering everything they cross paths with.

Once at Brazil we had 52°C

The temperature in my room was 32°C last night at 10:30 PM

Yeah, some colleagues from India expressed their concern last week, because they heard how hot it was here.

Felt really weird to have that be actual concern and not just them mocking us, because they're used to + equipped for worse temperatures.

This is good news, it shows the laws of nature do apply to humans and scientists like James Hansen etal were right and Physics as we know it applies

but we've chosen to ignore it and it'll get worse and perhaps this answers Fermi's Paradox?

Humanity is the problem (for most humans and for most species) , climate change is the solution, we're literally killing species off so fast it's labeled the sixth mass extinction.

Chat, are we cooked?

Went to a concert here in central europe and we endured 45 degrees under the sun, people were fainting and getting naked but they didn’t let us in till after a full hour of late opening.

I live in sweltering southern Romania

I took a trip to the Carpathians a couple weeks ago to cool down

Saw two bears in 48 hours in the small town I was in

It's over. The bears have the high ground

"If?"

A SMALL price to Pay to have REALLY Expensive Oil!

-World Leaders!

If not for the gulf stream (a constant sea water movement) Europe would be much colder and Northern America much warmer. I wonder if climate warming could potentially stop this gulf stream