Extreme heat is getting worse. Can we learn to live with it? | The Excerpt 

They have 6.9 million subs, and this video has 1300 views after a day. I imagine most glance at the title, shudder, and move on to something fun. Ignorance wins.

Sadly true

A classic book on this topic is "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" by Richard Hofstadter

Asimov was an astute man. Now we have the ignorant class with an equally ignorant leader that may be our President again, and what a disaster that will be.

Catch The Glow

We can't even get people to wear a stupid mask during a pandemic. There is no way we're gonna deal substantively with climate change. We needed to act back in the 70s.

We are soo late !! So I'll will tell you what going to happen !? More earth quiets and more wildfires droughts flooding tornado like f-15 f20 think about like this every day is worth than the last day !! So one half of the country will be flooded and tornado like f-15 f20 and the other side will be wildfire and drought so we need to be thinking about growing are own food for Americans !!

there's nothing to DO, it's already in motion

@@alsamil6716 It is in motion, but it's not true that there is nothing to do. There is a simple plan. 1) stop piling CO2 into the atmosphere. 2) meanwhile, start reflecting some of that incoming sunlight back into space, and 3) work on removing CO2. We used to do number 2 but stopped when we cleaned up our air. A good thing for lungs, but that also unveiled the true magnitude of the warming. We can release particulates high up in the atmosphere, were no-one will be breathing them in. Number 2 gives me no joy, but that's where we are. Number 3 takes longer and is costly, making number 2 necessary at this juncture. The reason we are where we are is because we (by "we" I mean the oil industry - who dictate the game) never seriously worked on number 1, and hoped that number 3 would allow us to burn all the fossil fuel we wanted (the "net zero" we keep hearing about). We need to stop talking about "net zero" and instead aim for "zero", and fast.

Uh oh. The Right Wing will tell us to do absolutely nothing.

Tell that to the billions living in cities. They might protest.

Most populous parts of the south did not have entire weeks of over 97 degrees. Look at the charts. We're in a completely different world compared to 1994.

He..doesn't..care. That's it in a nutshell

That’s why he loves the uneducated. They do stupid things for him with no ability to consider the consequences.

I can understand why, hes a sociopath with a cult following.

The answer is simple, it's a known fact that Trump is a narcissist, and narcissist do not care about other people and never will

He gives not one shit about those people and they are so ignorant they can't tell. It blows my mind.

There is not enough wood in north America to heat the northern parts through winter. It also takes mechanical energy to get to it, fell and proces then transport it.

Don't give into climate despair! For instance, you could enlighten other about the climate facts and push back against fossil fuel promoted misinformation can make more of a difference than just personal changes.

​@@beyondfossil talking isn't going to move the dial

​@@JamesCurcio "Talk" is the _only_ thing that finally moves the needle. If one person buys an EV or votes for politicians that support the energy transition, then it's just that: one person. However, if that one person influenced a friend, family member, neighbor, co-worker to do same then he's multiplied his efforts. This all is magnified many times over in connections and distance by the internet. In a larger context, humans are the most communicative species on the planet. Fighting back against fossil fuel interests will be a global collaborative effort. We also need to be aware that next to mother nature, there is no more powerful force on Earth than the global fossil fuel industry because of their massive profits and political influence. Many high-ranking politicians are shamelessly in the pocket of fossil fuel interests. For instance, Greg Abbot and Daniell Smith to name a few. So no. Talk certainly will be able to move the needle and might ultimately be the only thing that does.

Warming accelerates if we shut everything single thing down they say now ., It's over folks.

@@beyondfossil - Doing something is what got us into this mess and doing nothing to stop it will get us out. It's weird how nature works that way, but I didn't make up the rules. Enjoy what you can while you still can.

Here is another headline of what he's up to: Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from state law Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that erases most references to climate change from state law. The new law takes effect July 1.

Conservative media tell folks to move to heat sponges like AZ and TX. Uh oh. Look what happens there.

Huh? What planet is this particular Texas on? Why is the truth so painful? Are you wrapped up in oil stocks?

A fluke. Look at entire month spans. It is hotter than comparable weeks in the past.

Things are changing the most rapidly there, so not a good plan. Plus there is the issue of finding sufficient favorable land on Earth to grow food for everyone. My plan is to move to higher elevations at higher latitudes and not live too long. I'm older so I think it will work.

Our air conditioning systems were not engineered to handle record breaking heat...

@@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919 I'm sure. Just that I keep hearing that as long as we have AC then everything is fine. But its not. I set mine to 77 during the day and 73 at night. We use a lot fans to help keep the house cool. Seems to work for now. Weirdly I hardly use AC when driving. Well I'm used to that. Grew up in the equator. Very hot.

@@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919 What record breaking heat??

Mr. Rogers did an episode about an underground home back in the day. I watched it with my young daughter. As a soil scientist, I thought it was very cool. And I knew it could catch on in the future as global warming accelerated.

Aye there, @budgie. You ate the paint chips growing up, didn't you?

@@jimmyf9545 I always know when I've won a debate when people pretend to know me, and try to resort to personal attack rather than disprove my original point/comment. Thanks for the validation. LOL

@@rumblebudgie2085 If the shoe fits, it's not a personal attack. Your comment deserves such a response, considering the lack of context in your "argument". Facts are facts and it would be wise to deal with them.

@@jimmyf9545 Here are the facts rather then whatever your TV tells you is the truth: Data from NOAA's Climate Reference Network shows no sustained increase in daily high temperatures in the United States since 2005 when that network began. In recent decades in the United States, heat waves have been far less severe than they were in the 1930s. At that time Heatwaves were more than 6 times worse with greater frequency, duration, and covering a larger area than the last decade (EPA). The most severe heatwave year was 1936, and was about 13 times worse than current. This year only 4 US states have achieved higher temperatures than 1936. Many states in 1936 achieved temperatures 15° hotter than the present. The all-time high temperature records set in most states occurred in the first half of the twentieth century. So far in 2024 the percentage of US Historical Climatology Network Stations reaching or exceeding 95°F (35°C) is at a record low (1895-2024) of 51%. The record high was 1931 at 93%. The trend has been consistently downwards since that point. The climate crisis was 90 years ago and you missed it.

Do some research on what is happening to the jet stream and you might understand.

Wait until the Jetstream moves northwards and gets stuck there for a week or more, then Scandinavian countries will be sweltering. This is what happened in British Columbia in June 2021, and it was an epic event "BC heat dome 2021". In the larger context, this all falls in line with climate change extremes where weather patterns move between extremes: (a) more frequently and (b) more wide ranges. The increasing volatility caused by an extra 39-billion metric tons of fossil fuel carbon pulled from deep within the Earth's crust and pumped into the atmosphere *every year* gives more energy and moisture to the atmosphere. This can really disrupt the Jetstream and ocean currents. Look at the increase in air travel turbulence too that injures people and diverts flights. The atmosphere is now over 422-ppm CO2 concentration which hasn't occurred on Earth in over 4-million years dating back to the Pliocene era. But all of it happening in just 200-years since the start of the Industrial Age when humans really started burning fossil fuels at industrial scale. 200-years is just a fraction of a blink of an eye in geological time scales which is what climate change should be happening in so that the biosphere has a chance to adapt. As it is, even humans aren't able to adapt at such short climate change scales.

Yes, i was going to say. Technically, it's not the Jet Stream, it's the AMOC (of which the Jet Stream is a component). The shutting down of the AMOC starts with sweltering summers in lower Europe, and continues with a big differential between Scandinavia and Southern Europe. Like something we've never seen before. We don't know exactly what that's going to do, but one would expect violent storms, as temperature gradients drive winds. In Scandinavia, without the AMOC, temperatures will be depressed by 20 degrees Celsius (yes). You're in for a ride. People thought this might be in store for the next century, but it's already started. Right now, climatologists say that it will take at least a century or so for the AMOC to shut down, but given how crazy things have been, I wouldn't put all my money on that.

Is that a real invitation? Will you house and feed us. If so, get ready for the influx…yeehaw.

@@michaels7566 well if you’re nice decent and honest, we can swap place for a period. I could really need some warm weather and I have a very nice apartment in a nice area in Copenhagen.😉

Weather extremes.

@@wesleyrodgers886 history of the world weather extremes a volcano Earth to the ice age to a volcano Earth to an ice age to a volcano Earth to an ice age

​@tiboregoldberger6817 there's a 'natural fire'. Which is normal we're just pouring gas on it. Making it worse.

Don’t know where you are getting your data but we (Ontario, Canada) just had the mildest winter of my lifetime, and I’m retired.

@@Bushman9 watch CNN and MSNBC ABC NBC CBS News