Heatwave Across US West Breaks Records For Highest Temperatures (theguardian.com) 73
An intense heatwave across the US west has brought unusually warm temperatures to the region -- some of the highest of the season -- and broken heat records. From a report: Millions of Americans from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Seattle are under heat alerts. Even before this latest bout of extreme weather, which began on Wednesday and is expected to last through the weekend, summer 2024 was already considered the hottest summer on record.
In California, the desert city of Indio saw its hottest 5 September at 121F (49.4C), breaking a previous record of 120 from 2020, while Palm Springs tied its heat record for the day at 121F. The city recorded its all-time high of 124F in July. The Los Angeles region has not yet broken any records -- although Burbank tied for its all-time high of 114F -- the area is bracing for a days-long stretch of triple-digit temperatures. This week Phoenix marked 100 straight days at 100F or more and its hottest 5 September at 116F. In the Pacific north-west, schools around Portland closed early due to the heat and the typically cool Seattle broke its daily temperature record on Thursday at 89F.
This summer was the hottest on record across the world and the Earth saw its hottest day in recorded history on 22 July, which broke a record set the previous day. Heatwaves are growing more frequent, more extreme and longer-lasting in the US west and across the world as the climate crisis drives increasingly severe and dangerous weather conditions. Heatwaves are the weather event most directly affected by the climate crisis, an expert told the Guardian in July.
In California, the desert city of Indio saw its hottest 5 September at 121F (49.4C), breaking a previous record of 120 from 2020, while Palm Springs tied its heat record for the day at 121F. The city recorded its all-time high of 124F in July. The Los Angeles region has not yet broken any records -- although Burbank tied for its all-time high of 114F -- the area is bracing for a days-long stretch of triple-digit temperatures. This week Phoenix marked 100 straight days at 100F or more and its hottest 5 September at 116F. In the Pacific north-west, schools around Portland closed early due to the heat and the typically cool Seattle broke its daily temperature record on Thursday at 89F.
This summer was the hottest on record across the world and the Earth saw its hottest day in recorded history on 22 July, which broke a record set the previous day. Heatwaves are growing more frequent, more extreme and longer-lasting in the US west and across the world as the climate crisis drives increasingly severe and dangerous weather conditions. Heatwaves are the weather event most directly affected by the climate crisis, an expert told the Guardian in July.
FAKE NEWS (Score:1, Funny)
Orange Jesus sez its all a China-Democrat HOAX!
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I use swamp cooling, so most people don't want to come into my home
Beyond that, my son is in recovery from fentanyl abuse, and I put a lot of effort into keeping rando drug addicts out of my house
I'm one of those people who believe that I pay taxes to the local governments so that they can manage the homeless population in a manner that does not expose them to death
Unfortunately, I live in a mostly-red, right-to-work-for-less state that has gone light on social services spending while providing stunning tax
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thanks AC
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Rick,
I can just speak from my experience.
Where I live there has been a vast turnover from a lot of mentally ill people who were turned out onto the street by republican cost-cutting measures in the 1990's, to people who desperately spange (or steal) for enough money to get their next supply of blues (counterfeit percoset made from fentanyl and sometime xylazine)
Maybe the existing population has been converted to addicts, maybe it is a generational issue
My house is next to a very large park (more of a desert
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Our fucked-up society created homeless people, and it led them to end up substance abusers because their lives suck so bad they'll do ANYTHING to get relief
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I agree Rick, things are pretty fucked up
Aside from "Free Will", the oppression of the fellow-human for financial gain remains a plague on our society
I know that there are a lot of people that WANT to help, but it many cases they are not really all that helpful
My family has spent the last hundred years or so in "public service" (lawmen, teachers, etc...) and I have worked mostly in the non-profit sector, because it was a way to earn a living while not profiting from the demise of others (I have an MBA we ca
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My cousin was intentionally homeless in Los Angeles for most of his adult life. He had addictions and didn't want to have a home. For a few weeks he lived with my parents, but ended out on the streets again because that's where he wanted to be. I only visited so I didn't know him very well, but I can tell you that he didn't seem mentally unstable or ill... but he clearly had addictions to drugs. He ended up dying at a relative young age--57. What I learned from him is that some homeless don't want a ho
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from a lot of mentally ill people who were turned out onto the street by republican cost-cutting measures in the 1990's
That has been going on since at least the 70s, and has been equally (at least, probably more) supported by leftists who think they are for "autonomy" and so forth.
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Not all homeless people are drug addicts
Pretty much all _unsheltered_ homeless in major cities are drug addicts now. Some social workers are now saying that for quite a while they haven't seen _anyone_ not addicted to something.
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Forced treatment seldom works. Anyways, there's a severe lack of voluntary treatment, at least where I am, and that is often successful and should be ramped up before considering forcing people into treatment.
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Forced treatment seldom works.
Drug non-treatment works even less. The half-life of unsheltered homeless is now around 5 years. So in 5 years, most of the people you see homeless in large cities will be dead. The "lucky" ones from drug overdoses, the unlucky ones from medical complications of drug abuse. Oh, and providing shelter actually _increases_ the risks of overdose deaths.
So there are literally no good choices. It's either forced treatment, or eventual death.
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You should read up on what has been happening for the past couple of decades
https://drugpolicy.org/wp-cont... [drugpolicy.org]
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Well, considering how many want treatment and can't get it, seems much wiser to help those who want help first. Then we can consider whether to force people into treatment.
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Drugs have been decriminalized here, without enough treatment options. The extreme right have made it into a big issue and latest polling shows that most people would never vote for a party that supported decriminalization. The right are also attacking the safe injection sites and such as dead drug users are better then safe drug users.
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especially rent.
What did you expect to happen when the government prevents one type of business from collecting payment while forcing that business to continue providing services? Landlords all now have to maintain multi-year savings for the next pandemic, for when they're required to provide and maintain housing for free again. Building up that savings means increased rents. That's certainly not the only reason, but it's one of them.
Maybe next time we could have saner policies like freezing current rent and the governm
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What did you expect to happen when the government prevents one type of business from collecting payment while forcing that business to continue providing services?
You're confusing small landlords with the huge ones. These are the international megacorporations that own, each one, tens of thousands of homes for rent, grabbing up to 60% of all homes in a single town, and thus can exercise monopoly prices. Atop that, these megacorps work with each other via price-management intermediaries such as RealPage, itself a monopolist, that uses big data to calculate the best way to increase rent prices the most, including with techniques such as instructing its megacorp clients
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You're inviting some into your air conditioned home, I'm sure.
Don't confuse him with logic!
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What you call logic, most consider to be the utterings of the town idiot
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Sure, you can tell it to the homeless people that are being turned into jerky on the sidewalks where I live
But, hey, they probably don't vote, so what does some fascist pol care
Fascist pigs will consider that a problem solved. Instead of having to pay to truck them and dump them on some other city, they can just scoop them up into mass graves.
Give them Project 2025 and I'd bet they'd turn the homeless into Soylent Green.
Climate change deniers must be mentally ill. One more reason to add to the list of reasons they must not be allowed to gain power over this country.,
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I love it:
"We've been having near record breaking temperatures for record breaking periods of time!" - Response: So what, we had hotter this one day in like the 1920s.
Actual record-breaking temperatures - "FAKE NEWS!"
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Try being a homeless person for a single week. Just a pretend one, not necessarily living on the streets, though that would make it more effective. Then try to use those services.
Come back and tell us what happened and how it went for you.
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Yes and keep building manufacturing plants in the US South and Southwest were they are already water stressed. The rate we are going, the extreme US South will be unlivable in 50 years, but people are still moving there.
You think there is a migrant problem now ? Just wait to the 2070s and watch what happens to NA and Europe. But hay, at least I can still drive my SUV and crank the AC. Want a fix quickly, remove the Oil subsidizes.
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Fun fact, the large manufacturers in my state use water reclamation to reduce potential impacts to ground water table, and allow them to operate
It costs a little more, but it is worth it.
We also have planning laws that require demonstration of 100 years of water supply before allowing more growth
The facts are that these things are all manageable if you have laws in place to regulate them and do not get suckered into right-wing pro-business lies to not involve government oversight
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Yes people point this out a lot, but here is an article and indicates this water re-claimation is not working as AZ was told it would.
https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/tsmc-water-usage-phoenix-chips-act-commerce-department-semiconductor-manufacturing/
TSMC’s wastewater discharge increased 30% between 2018 and 2022 ...
I think once the eyes stop watching, corporate cost savings begin with water being wasted. I have seen a few articles in the past few months stating that these plants are pushing a Pollyanna type narrative.
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Fun thing about statistics, is when you are operating with little waste (currently 90% re-use) any increase percentage LOOKS like a large number, even though the actual volume of waste is low
I am in no way shilling for TSMC, I grew up next to a Motorola plant that is now a Superfund site, and used to work tracking test wells around Intel sites.
I am simply stating that sometimes percent increase is not a valid measurement, like when police officer deaths dropped to zero under Obama, but Trump spewed about m
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"Hey Google" or "Alexa", the temperature goes up a tiny fraction of a degree next to the datacenter that will tell how to glue cheese on pizza and how to buy the glue with express next-day delivery.
Phoenix, yikes (Score:4, Informative)
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Report the news about heat and not have to link every weather story to climate crisis without direct proof of this event being due to climate crisis.
>Heatwaves are the weather event most directly affected by the climate crisis
All your recent posts are modded Troll: -1 (Score:1)
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The thermometers are often located in cities. So if we rewrite the story "Thermometers located in growing cities indicate higher temperatures, news at 10"
Yes I'm sure that explains the difference in Indio which is *checks notes* a city of 90000 people which has barely changed in size in the past decade.
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Re:Urban Heat Island. (Score:5, Insightful)
Except, of course, we know how to compensate for that, and we still have temperature stations outside of cities, including satellites that give us temperatures for whole swaths of the Earth.
They also show warming. Then there's things like the glaciers melting like crazy.
Re:Urban Heat Island. (Score:5, Interesting)
When I was a teenager, my uncle led my father and I into the Pecos Wilderness Area, considered the most remote wilderness in the lower 48
We went on horse back, and stayed in a forest service cabin (my uncle volunteered for them) , because no motorized conveyance is allowed there
After the long horse rid e in, we spent a couple of days doing loop rides over the ridgeline, and saw a glacier with a string of lakes into the valley below that you could see the fish in the bottom of
Those glaciers are long gone, and probably not coming back in my lifetime, it is a shame that others will not be able to enjoy such an adventure
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The thermometers are often located in cities.
Please, tell us more about what you saw in that climate denial YouTube video you're quoting. I mean, that influencer clearly knows way more than climatologists who have studied this for years and decades, none of whom ever thought of that about thermometers in cities, evidently.
I'm particularly interested in the part about it's all the Sun's fault, and how climatologists also never thought of that nor incorporated it into their models. That's always the best part! /s
Immediate Climate Action Now (Score:1, Flamebait)
Its time to stop talking about future goals and start talking about how we can make immediate reductions in emissions now.
As a start, institute and immediate reduction in speed limits.This was used successfully to reduce gas consumption during the oil crisis of the 1970's.
Provide public financing for any permanent home improvements that result in immediate or very short term reductions in emissions. There are plenty or energy savings investments that would pay for themselves but people are unwilling to put
"A solar panel on every roof" - not a bad idea. (Score:3)
You shouldn't have posted as an A/C. Now I'm gonna repeat what you said and get modded up for it.
I remember when there was a VHF antenna (and usually a UHF antenna) on top of every roof in sight. If people put up with that degree of ugly just to watch free TV, imagine how they'd feel about the (considerably less ugly, IMHO) solar photovoltaic and/or water heating panels saving them real money.
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Ha. That will never happen. To many vested interests in a system of consolidated, corporate control of energy. Everyone having their own solar roof and Powerwall and not needing the electric company is a pipe dream.
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You really are determined to make this a class struggle aren't you?
No, your ideas are obviously moronic, but you can't see it. I'm trying to understand where your misconception lies. You have a lot of confidence.
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I think you are right of course. We aren't going to do any of that and people will live with the consequences.
You may be right that it is all hyperbole and the scientists are wrong. But I wouldn't bet on it and the younger you are the more consequences you will get to live with.
In the meantime, we will keep talking about our future efforts and goals and how we can use climate change to grow the economy. We will talk about a new world where everyone is driving a new electric car and all our power comes f
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