My hot take - climate change is about to hit in a major way!

[Anonymous]

Have you nicer this week’s forecast?

This type of heat wave isn’t normal.

And hurricane season is forecast to be a record breaker (people will die and billions in damage done).

We need action on climate justice RIGHT NOW!

[Anonymous]

too late
It is time to party like we are on the deck of the titanic.

[Anonymous]

The change happens exponentially.

[Anonymous]

Any individual weather event is a weather event. Climate change is the long term pattern of weather events.

And, unfortunately, this type of heat wave is now normal. Climate change has been happening, it's not something that is about to happen.

Totally agree with your last sentence though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you nicer this week’s forecast?

This type of heat wave isn’t normal.

And hurricane season is forecast to be a record breaker (people will die and billions in damage done).

We need action on climate justice RIGHT NOW!

Yes. I have always believed in climate change. And, yes, it's BAD now.

But, I grew up in this area (I'm 52 now). This heat wave is VERY COMMON. I played an outdoor sport and every Memorial day it was 90s, and the springs were warmer and less rain than the past few years in DC. It wasn't unusual to have a hot April.

I remember hot, hot days (90s) and big thunderstorms (my dad sending us to the basement) as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Who else has read The Ministry for the Future? Now when I hear reports about heat waves in India, it's terrifying.

[Anonymous]

Too late

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who else has read The Ministry for the Future? Now when I hear reports about heat waves in India, it's terrifying.

I was in India during the heatwave in March/April. Understand that it was not even the height of summer. Normal life came to a standstill in the middle of the day. Trees, plants and crops wilted. It was the kind of oppressive heat that prevented most of us from leaving the house. Animals and birds were dying. Immense water scarcity coupled with huge amounts of mosquitos. Rancid and putrid smells from many open sewage drains. It was hell. It was horrifying. Temperatures were looming at 110 degree Fahrenheit. Yesterday, when DC was at 90 degrees, I thought it was a normal weather because it was bearable. Otherwise, the air at 105 - 110 degrees felt so hot that it hurts your lungs to breathe it in.

I feel all of us need to plant more trees around our homes. Get rid of lawns. Dig some trenches to do rain harvesting on your property and recharge the ground level of water. Stop using pesticide, weed killers and fertilizers. Plant clovers to fix nitrogen in the lawn. Compost your kitchen waste.

[Anonymous]

When we discuss climate change, ultimately what we are discussing is mankind's ability to live safely in our current homes and environment. Human safety - the ability to access fresh water, food, shelter, and electricity - is what's at stake. More severe droughts, hurricanes, floods, wildfires and blizzards will imperil those things that we need to continue our humdrum modern lives.

Do you know how much time we would waste trying to find fresh water or food? How difficult your life would become if electricity became inaccessible or unreliable? It would devastate your quality of life.

In short, climate change is a threat to both your physical safety and quality of life. So many people have not tangibly made that connection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too late

I am OP. And I agree.

But we can still slow the harm and limit the ultimate damage.

Don’t give up!

[Anonymous]

It's frustrating that climate change will cause such misery in the coming decades and so few people care. I don't understand how even selfish people aren't at least concerned about what their own children will live through. Is it a state of denial?

[Anonymous]

Lol how is this a hot take?! This would have been a hot take 10 years ago.

Unless you mean it’s a pun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you nicer this week’s forecast?

This type of heat wave isn’t normal.

And hurricane season is forecast to be a record breaker (people will die and billions in damage done).

We need action on climate justice RIGHT NOW!

Yes. I have always believed in climate change. And, yes, it's BAD now.

But, I grew up in this area (I'm 52 now). This heat wave is VERY COMMON. I played an outdoor sport and every Memorial day it was 90s, and the springs were warmer and less rain than the past few years in DC. It wasn't unusual to have a hot April.

I remember hot, hot days (90s) and big thunderstorms (my dad sending us to the basement) as a kid.

+1 50yo DC native.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:too late
It is time to party like we are on the deck of the titanic.

You made me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's frustrating that climate change will cause such misery in the coming decades and so few people care. I don't understand how even selfish people aren't at least concerned about what their own children will live through. Is it a state of denial?

It’s that no matter what we do, it won’t slow down climate change.