"Many predicted more records would later fall but they didn’t. Death Valley, possibly the hottest place on Earth, came close but didn’t break its 1913 record. Incidentally, that record is under suspicion as none of the nearby weather stations recorded extraordinarily hot weather for that day. Most American states set their individual heat records almost a century ago"
Climate change extremism and the tendency to alarm first and analyse later is destroying clear and thoughtful environmental reporting. A good example of this is the European heatwave hysteria which was started by journalists confusing ground and air temperature. It began with a report by the Eur
www.netzerowatch.com
So we must wonder: Will '24 be yet another year where records everyone is anticipating breaking won't do so? And how accurate is any of the data regarding alleged past heat waves to begin with?
Rising temperatures are a problem, neither myself nor anyone else on this thread is denying as much. The damage from such things is mitigated by providing greater access to air conditioning in those corners where it's absenet
https://unherd.com/2023/07/climate-hysteria-has-no-class/ and the like
"Many predicted more records would later fall but they didn’t. Death Valley, possibly the hottest place on Earth, came close but didn’t break its 1913 record. Incidentally, that record is under suspicion as none of the nearby weather stations recorded extraordinarily hot weather for that day. Most American states set their individual heat records almost a century ago"
Climate change extremism and the tendency to alarm first and analyse later is destroying clear and thoughtful environmental reporting. A good example of this is the European heatwave hysteria which was started by journalists confusing ground and air temperature. It began with a report by the Eur
www.netzerowatch.com
So we must wonder: Will '24 be yet another year where records everyone is anticipating breaking won't do so? And how accurate is any of the data regarding alleged past heat waves to begin with?
Rising temperatures are a problem, neither myself nor anyone else on this thread is denying as much. The damage from such things is mitigated by providing greater access to air conditioning in those corners where it's absenet
https://unherd.com/2023/07/climate-hysteria-has-no-class/ and the like
Again...this is not only the US we are talking about...the US comprises 2% of the world surface.
Since 2016, 12 countries have set new record high temperatures with half of those coming since 2021.
I was personally in Columbia, SC(unfortunately) when they smashed their all time record high and hit 113 in 2012. So not all states set their record high many decades ago.
Additionally, you must be joking when you think it's "that simple" to just give all these places air conditioning.
With what electrical grid? Many of those places don't even have a functioning electric grid 24 hours a day as it is BEFORE trying to add in millions of air conditioning units sucking many gigawatts of power that they can't produce and have no way of building up infrastructure since no companies want to invest in poverty stricken countries where people can't pay much. Not to mention these would be extremely hot places that would require far more power than normal to keep things cool as well as likely be poorly insulated and built and would likely leak much of the cool air back outside quickly.
Outside of the developed countries like the US, Canada, most EU nations and a few select others, electricity 24 hours a day is a privilege and many are used to having rolling brown outs or worse for several hours a day because the grids can't handle all the people at once. What we consider normal are luxuries to 70% of the world.
There are no incentives to build upgrades there, that's why they don't have them already, because if there was you best believe they would already be there. Who is going to convince a company to come in and spend billions of dollars building infrastructure to lose money year after year? How are these people going to pay for it when a monthly AC bill is more than they make in a year?
Doesn't make economic sense any way you look at it. Especially when there is constant political strife and civil wars going on in many of these places where they would simply destroy it after it's built to gain advantages over the other side.
Also, considering that heat related deaths are the leading cause of weather related fatalities on a yearly basis with up to 500,000 people dying each year due to that(including 1300 that just died in the Haj Pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia with temps reaching 125 degrees), it should be a bigger concern than tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, landslides, etc in people's minds, but it isn't because it's not a drastic shocking event that happens and then it's gone...it is those things that can build over days and weeks and the longer it goes the more deadly it becomes.
A big part of the issue is that nights are warming more rapidly than days which leads to the body being unable to cool off properly at night which just exacerbates the daytime heat leading to a feedback loop in the body with negative effects.
