When will it get too hot?

[Anonymous]

It’s no different from when I was a kid except we didn’t have a/c here in DC. You will adapt. My kids played 5 hours of baseball in 105 degrees. Everyone was fine. Just the moms were complaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It flooded in Vermont again. In a relatively unpopulated region of the state but this is at least 4x in under 13 months that the state sees massive road and other damage.

The places that for years we thought would be spared from climate change for longer into the future...it's not that simple.

I follow a guy in Vermont on Instagram and he just posted last week or this one about another flood causing more damage to a road they hadn't finished fixing from the last flood.

Most of the major roads follow valleys and rivers. Mountainous areas, regardless of where they are located, will have significant issues and face the same ‘how many times are we going to pay to rebuild’ challenges that the coastal areas do.

[Anonymous]

I think we should use the taxes raised from the car tax to figure this out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher I have wondered if eventually we will need to shift the calendar to where “summer break” is in April-May when you can actually be outdoors. Having off July/August when it’s literally deadly to be outside for too long increasingly makes no sense. Kids would be better off inside in those months.

I think eventually, school will have to be shifted to the overnight hours, and be indoors under electric lights.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe when you quit driving your kids all over in your gas guzzling SUV, carbon emissions will be reduced and climate change will stall.

Stall? No. Never.

There are 1.4 billion vehicles on the planet. 100,000 plane flights per day.

And the factories. And heating and cooling homes...

There is no stalling.

This....me going for a drive, using reusable straws, shying away from plastic, isn't going to do anything. You have to change the mindset of 11 billion people. It's just not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should use the taxes raised from the car tax to figure this out

Maryland doesn’t have any car tax.

[Anonymous]

We need to think about wet bulb temps.
https://ohsonline.com/Articles/2024/08/01/Wet-Bulb-Globe-Temperature-WBGT-in-Heat-Safety.aspx

[Anonymous]

So according to
https://www.weather.gov/tsa/wbgt

DC wetbulb temp is a whopping 89 today. Body gets stressed after 20 min in sunlight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD went to a fun sleepover camp not this but last summer w/o cabin AC. A lot of fun but NO Fing way ever again.

The pp who said exercising in 100 degree still works - but we are at 110 degrees heat index today. So if in a couple years it's 125 heat index does that still work? I mean my 2 kids are young and healthy but I really don't want them out at 110 degree heat index doing sports. I know they will likely be fine but it's not 100%. That's pretty damn hot when you consider humidity. I think dry heat is actually for me more doable than the humidity heat combo. I just hate it as a parent. Next yr will be hotter prob. On some level I feel like we all push the boundary because it's too scary to realize how much things have changed but there's going to come a day when we have to appreciate that outdoor exercise isn't smart. Maybe in a couple of years is my guess.

Try to train or exercise on artificial/synthetic turf field at 110 degrees heat index, and you get burn, in addition to breathing in all the toxic chemical, that causes cancer, from the turf field. Everything HS in Fairfax County and Fairfax County Pubic Parks have artificial/synthetic turf field.