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.

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.

This is actually really smart and a very simple solution. Summer used to be June-August because so many people were farmers and they needed kids to help with harvesting/selling summer crops, so there are so fewer farms now plus child labor laws that's a non-issue.

It's just not as simple as drive less OP. So is everyone going to drive less and carpool? Will we limit activities for kids? I mean it's not 1 person or even 1000 people. You really have to get a % of the population to all change for there to be actual significant impact. I know people think some change will hell but that's just not how it works. We got a lot of things happening globally that are contributing to climate issues and having 5 people who decide to carpool isn't going to mean anything.

Even if the entire state of VA somehow out itself on a program to limit their emissions and not eat meat and etc. this is just not going to impact what's happening on a global scale. I think people in general just want to try to prevent the inevitable and we want to keep or lifestyles intact so we say to ourselves all will continue to be fine and eventually we can all make everything better so none of us will have to alter our lifestyles. I think we will realize that within 5 years this thought will be proven otherwise.

OP what kind of car, van or SUV do you drive? How many kids do you have?

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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.

You left out one of the biggest contributors to warming - the tens of billions of animals raised and slaughtered for human consumption every year and the deforestation associated with feeding those animals.

We are eating our way to extinction. Look up the documentary of the same title.

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.

Anonymous wrote:It’s been awful. My husband is 62 and pretty fit and recently after walking 18 holes playing golf on a hot and humid day he passed out despite drinking many bottles of water. He was taken to the ER and they said every year it gets worse. He is soon to retire and we are leaving DC.

We left last year - we couldn't take it anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s too hot now, unless you schedule sports activities from 6-9 am. Seriously. The question is, when do we set a siesta time so everyone shuts down during the blistering heat in afternoon?

A lot of cultural changes will eventually have to happen, when the heat becomes too much.

What heat will be considered "too much?"

Go run outside for 45 min at 2p today and let me know if it's too much!

Anonymous wrote:It’s too hot now, unless you schedule sports activities from 6-9 am. Seriously. The question is, when do we set a siesta time so everyone shuts down during the blistering heat in afternoon?

A lot of cultural changes will eventually have to happen, when the heat becomes too much.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve thought about this from many angles, but two small ones related to what you’ve said- summer sports (baseball and soccer; the NWSL pushed back 1 pm start times this July to 6pm due to heat- who scheduled that?!) and also wondering how kids at sleep away camp fare these days.

I remember going to sleep away camp in the poconos in the 1990s. It was legitimately cold in the morning. I remember wearing a sweater to breakfast and then taking it off as it warmed up during the day and was cold again at night. Do any camps have AC at all? How do the kids and adults deal?

Now I live in nyc and it’s just hot all the time. It doesn’t cool down in summer like it used to. I know this anecdotally, but there was also a detailed NYT graphic the supports the same claim.

Wondering how sports , kids camps will adjusts and those are just 2 small details, but ones I’ve been thinking about.

The problem with much of NYC is that it is so densely packed with large buildings and nothing but concrete that everything retains the heat through the evening.

Yea I think its the cities that have much worse problem. I just spent a month in upstate New York. A week ago when I was walking my dog at 7am it was 59 degrees out. I had a sweatshirt on. It was glorious. Now I am back in this oven called NOVA dying. I want to go back.

This sort of thinking just proves the climate change believers are just as anti-science as the climate change deniers.

A hot summer isn’t proof of climate change. And for what it’s worth, I remember a July not too long ago with a week straight of 100 degree days, which hasn’t happened this year.

We won’t know if this year was a symptom of climate change for many years from now when they can look back and establish a trend.

Stop hyperventilating and adding to the warming climate.

It’s too hot now, unless you schedule sports activities from 6-9 am. Seriously. The question is, when do we set a siesta time so everyone shuts down during the blistering heat in afternoon?

Anonymous wrote:It’s been awful. My husband is 62 and pretty fit and recently after walking 18 holes playing golf on a hot and humid day he passed out despite drinking many bottles of water. He was taken to the ER and they said every year it gets worse. He is soon to retire and we are leaving DC.

Well if that’s not proof of climate change, I dont know what is…

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.

It will be done locally and unfortunately probably as the result of a local tragedy. Then leagues and eventually states will implement restrictions.

I’d suspect within 10 years.