A Warming World......

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PopsnTuff

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In the past 60 years, every decade has been hotter than the last, and 2020 is on track to be among the hottest years yet. But the burden of extreme heat is not shared equally — it’s significantly worse for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
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Extreme heat can exacerbate poor health, ravage crops and make it dangerous to work outside. And in many parts of the world, simple ways to alleviate those effects — like water, or electricity for fans and air-conditioners — are a luxury.
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Somini Sengupta, The Times’s international climate reporter, and a team of photographers have a new story that documents how rising temperatures are affecting people across multiple continents.

In Athens, heat waves have increased fivefold over the last century. Diminished rains and longer dry seasons are destroying Guatemala’s farmlands, where Indigenous farmers could see crop yields fall sharply. In Nigeria, hotter nights make it easier for mosquitoes to breed, increasing the risk of mosquito-borne diseases. And in the United States, heat kills older people more than any other extreme weather event, including hurricanes.

(Something we already knew but looks like its getting worse :()​
 

I don't think there can be any denying it any more. It's been very evident here in our part of the uk for the last 3 years...temps routinely in summer of 90 plus degrees.. where the average has historically been somewhere in the upper 70's mid 80's.. Yesterday was 97 degrees..F... today 92 degrees..
 
Of course the world is warming. It has been gradually for the last 10,000 years. There was an ice age. Glaciers have melted.
However a local observation is not proof of a huge change of the norm of the whole earth.
There have always been warmer Summer's than others and winters to average out the annual temperature. That's what I look at. The average temperature for the year.
 

I just know it’s hotter than Hades and my doctor says no walking in the heat. As if I needed that advice, it’s too hot outside to breathe.
 
This summer has been a record-breaker here. Seems to happen every year!

Also, I've noticed a LOT less snow and ice in the winter. Usually, we just get one little snowfall every year, with all the snow melted off the next day. That's got to be significant!
 
Don M. said:
https://www.currentresults.com/Environment-Facts/changes-in-earth-temperature.php
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From your link.


How Hot Has the World Got?

The earth's average temperature rose by 0.8 °C (1.5 °F) during the last century.

That's well within the limits . It's not a spectacular increase. It's a gradual one. People remember stuff differently than what the actual temperature took place.

I remember brutal winter temperatures. But when I looked up the average historical temperature in my city for the last 25 years there hasn't been an increase in temperature at all. In fact right now there is a slight decrease.
 
Pinky said:
We've noticed that trend here, too.
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Is it a record breaker though.? Have you looked up the historical temperature for your city?

  • Hottest temperature ever recorded: 109 F, Cumberland / Frederick, west-central Maryland, 7/10/1936.
  • Coldest temperature ever recorded: -40 F, Oakland, western Maryland, 1/13/1912.
  • Hottest location ranked by highest average annual temperature: Solomons, southern Maryland, 58.0 F.
 

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