Good god, the temperature in Delhi hit 50.5°C (122.9°F) today, an all-time record. “Years of scientific research have found the climate crisis is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.”
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Terrifying. I recently read Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future and now it feels a little too real.
I read "The Heat Will Kill You First" by Jeff Goodell last year and it reoriented how I think about the heat aspect of climate change. Terrifying indeed.
It's happening all over. There's a severe drought in Zambia after March heatwaves across the continent, water shortages in Mexico City, and a heat dome over southern Mexico / northern Central America that's killing howler monkeys and who knows what else. We read headlines like this and they're so scary or "far away" that we gloss over them and go back to what we know, and I think a huge part of that is that no one person knows how to affect this level of change en mass. IMO we need to lead with hope and doable action items paired with these terrifying reports—even more specific than these good ones—and every article needs to name fossil fuels as the culprit, not just amorphous climate change. We have the technology and we can shift our behaviors. We just need more people feeling empowered enough to be loud and push for it.
The NY Times is reporting that the temperature in Dehli reached "126 degrees Fahrenheit, or 52.3 degrees Celsius". Before the current heat wave, the previous record high was 48°C (118.5°F).
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