Mexicali, Mexico takes the top spot at 46 °C — right now the hottest reading across the 1,030 cities we track. #Mexicali #Mexico #ExtremeHeat
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Disabled writer working in the climate space. WIP: a book on the 2021 Western Canada heat dome. Climate change kills. Believe patients.
So the #ClimateDisaster happens. (Pick one. You have so many choices.) Some people die. Many people are hurt or made sick but survive. Other seem unharmed. Life goes on. What happens next? Hi. I'm Cindy, and I'm what happens next. I'm a climate casualty suffering from long-term morbidity.
Fire Tornadoes are now possible in the Northern Hemisphere. I wrote about it here: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... #wildfire #France
Hellfire: this is what our future looks like under climate change
Forest fires and air that seems to combust: thanks to climate change, more parts of the world will soon be ablaze. California shows us what will happen when it does
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 2w agoFrance battles fire 'whirlwinds' as another 55,000 evacuated
While ALGERIA had another exceptional hot day with 49.4C, Europe is preparing for another HISTORIC HEAT WAVE which will pulverize hundreds of records in Spain,France, Benelux,Germany,Switz,Austria,Poland,Belarus,Ukraine,Czechia,Slovakia,Hungary,Romania and the Balkans. Stay tuned.
In a recent study in Nature Climate Change, lead author and #uvic @uvicenvi.bsky.social PhD student Claire Wright and co-author Dr. Eric Higgs examines how #climatechange is driving the emergence of ecological conditions with no precedent. #ecology #environment #climate www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...
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EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN JAPAN Another extraordinary hot night on Wednesday with Minimum Temperatures up to 30C. Dozens of records of July and all time Highest Minimums,including 29.1C at Nagoya,hottest night ever. See list by JMA 👇 Thursday will be historic with up to 41C !
The fossil fuel industry is hyping my book again. I wish they would stop.
WHO says heat has claimed more than 200,000 lives across Europe in just the past four years. thediplomaticinsight.com/who-urges-eu...
WHO Urges Europe to Heat-Proof Hospitals as Deadly Heatwave Grips the Continent
The World Health Organization issued new guidance on Thursday aimed at helping European countries withstand increasingly severe heatwaves, as this summer's
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5 years after my heat-induced heart attack, it's hard to talk about the #ExtremeHeat pummelling Europe and parts of North America this summer. The 5-year anniversary of the #2021HeatDome rattled me more than I like to admit. And the numbers of deaths this summer... 10,000 in Europe.
Fires in Spain and France, hail in Balkans; Europe’s erratic weather persists @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Europeanheatwave #Europe #Europeanwildfires #extremeheat #Spain #France #Greece #Italy #Serbia #Albania #EU sightmagazine.com.au/news/fires-i...
Fires in Spain and France, hail in Balkans; Europe's erratic weather persists - Sight Magazine
Firefighters struggled to contain Spain's largest wildfire of the year, while two firefighters were killed battling a fire in France.
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really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
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Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 3w agoI want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.
Once upon a time, there were glaciers in Montana. There was even a place called Glacier National Park.
Patti@montanahuntress.bsky.social · 4w agoMontana
@matthewremski.bsky.social Fantastic, thought-provoking episodes on SSPX, even for a practicing (lefty) Catholic. 1 point of information though re: the inability to forbid the cult from performing baptism in particular. (You nailed communion even tho I would use different terms.)
17 million US households keep their homes at unhealthy temperatures. 8 million can't afford to turn on their AC. Surviving extreme heat is about more than access to AC. It is about having the money to pay higher energy bills. And millions of Americans don't.
Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 4w agoStaggering: One in four American households report reducing or forgoing food or medicine to pay energy costs, according to the US Energy Information Administration's Residential Energy Consumption Survey. One in eight have had utilities disconnected. www.eia.gov/consumption/...
It’s hard to go on with normal life knowing thousands of people will NOT go on this summer. Because they are gone. I’ve had to stop watching the disaster. My climate-change-damaged heart can only take so much. This piece by What On Earth was worth the listen. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
Heat is killing us. Is air conditioning the only fix?
Podcast Episode · What On Earth · July 4 · 24m
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"That grimmest of calls – 'told you so!' – is screaming out from nature itself. Yet collectively we remain deaf to it. The assumption that we would acknowledge reality when we were experiencing it, often in the most dramatic and devastating ways, has turned out to be false." - @fotoole.bsky.social
Fintan O'Toole: Red alerts issued by Europe’s met offices must also be issued by citizens to their governments
At a fundamental level, we do not believe what we are experiencing: the catastrophic effects of global heating
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Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · last mo.My round up of @economist.com's heatwave coverage (gift link) www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Looking for some music to match this moment in a #climateemergency like the #extremeheat in #Europe? Welcome to my writing playlist for my manuscript on the 2021 Western North American #heatdome music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
Dead Heat inspiration by Cindy MacDougall on Apple Music
Playlist · 19 Songs
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Imagine if hundreds of people died in an extreme hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many people. They are an extraordinary silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear.
how extreme is the heat in Europe? double decker buses in London are *spontaneously combusting* phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening
As the 5-year anniversary of my heart attack during the 2021 #HeatDome in BC approaches, I am having some hard feelings about it. As a writer writing about that time for my manuscript, it is in many ways a gift, as it sharpens memory. But it’s also a challenge. So let’s write our way out.
To AC or not to AC is not the right question. The right question is how to reduce suffering and death from extreme heat. AC is just one tool. It is not a technofix for life on a superheated planet.
The extraordinary temperatures sweeping the western part of Europe this week will have killed hundreds, likely thousands, more than two decades after the deadly summer of 2003 alerted governments to the dangers of extreme heat.
Why Europe’s heat waves are still so deadly
An ageing population, overheating homes and climatic change are fast outstripping preparations and driving up the death toll.
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How average and extreme summer temperatures are changing in Western Europe. Graph: Robert Rohde. This will continue until we reach net zero emissions, whether you like it or not: it’s physics. @rarohde.bsky.social
Europe urgently needs more (and more democraticly distributed) AC but AC is not a bolt-on fix. The divide between the Cooled and the Damned will persist and even grow. And nobody’s going to AC the farms, forests, the ocean.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · last mo.How average and extreme summer temperatures are changing in Western Europe. Graph: Robert Rohde. This will continue until we reach net zero emissions, whether you like it or not: it’s physics. @rarohde.bsky.social
NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.
Prairieland ICE protesters sentenced to decades in prison
Activists who didn't plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.
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The moment we start debating the “worth” of others, the fascists win. We all have value. You don’t need to produce for capitalism in order to matter. You don’t need to be healthy, rich or productive. Every person matters. The ruling class benefits when treat people as expendable.
If you are stuck in the #ExtremeHeat in Europe this week, here’s some advice from someone who had a heart attack during the 2021 BC heat dome: 1. Most important: Drink water and find cooling if you can, *especially at night.* People overwhelmingly died or were harmed overnight in too hot homes here.
Climate Central@climatecentral.org · 2mo ago🚨Western Europe is facing another round of record-breaking extreme heat this week—and climate change is playing a major role🚨 Temperatures are expected to reach 35–40°C (95–105°F) across parts of Western Europe and the UK, with some areas approaching 47°C (117°F).