I can't believe no one's talking about the goddamn heat!

I just endured 2 days of temps above 110 degrees in Portland Oregon. New records!

It's not July yet and there are heat warnings in the Yukon! The midwest and the south have been in a heatwave for over a week!

Anybody who says "Global warming isn't real" needs to get bitch slapped!

 

Only 18 o C here and wet !!!

 

Of course it's hot; and it's inevitably going to get hotter still. What did you expect?
Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005

 

So far here it's been "normal" * but it's been dry. Didn't see much soaking rain this spring.


* There is no normal anymore

 

Fixed; thanks

 

Tell you what I didn't expect, 115 yesterday, 111 the day before, 108 on Saturday. Today the temperature is expected to drop to 95. That's 20 degrees cooler and still a scorcher! In a northern city like Portland! In June! I've known about climate change for a long time but I didn't think we were this far gone yet!

 

Salem was 117!!!!!! We were 111 or 112 here in Eugene. Our AC kept us cool, fortunately.

 

If everybody had AC the grid would fry.

 

Yeah--true. ---But it's not really ever been needed up here in the northwestern corner of the US.

 

I read somewhere that most people don't have AC up your way... Expect mass casualties in the air conditioning isle at Home Depot.

 

The small portable ones sold out really fast!!

 

My friend bought a big portable AC, didn't think it was doing the job, so he's sticking with his window AC, plans to get a bigger one later. He was planning to return it to the store but he's letting me use it for a couple days and if I decide to I'll buy it. I believe I will, I'm currenty in my bedroom with the door closed and I feel good. Slept well last night. It costs $400 and considering what I just went through I'd be a fool not to buy it.

 

Down near Tucson we've been running a 10,000 BTU portable AC in a 15x15 bedroom, a 12,000 BTU window unit for the living room and kitchen and STILL using the built-in swamp cooler during the hottest parts of the day.
OFC my Lady friend likes it at around 72-74,,, this is why I spend a couple hundred a month on water and electricity...

 

Long ago I lived in Phoenix and I remember swamp coolers, aka evaporative coolers. Pity they only work where the humidity is below 10%.

 

Heat waves, pandemics and Trump supporters. Stop the world, I want to get off.

 

Well then go live on a different one!
You can do that, we can't!

 

Any of you try my sisters tricking wa?Se bout 7 sheets if 1 inch foil backed foam board and covered her South and west windows, said her house dropped 25 degrees.

 

The damage from the PNW coastal heat wave is all around us and it’s big-time scary. The day after the 110+ F high, we walked along a small tide flat at low tide and the stench was horrific……cooked marine life, clams ,barnacles, mussels etc. Our neighbor has a large Cedar of Lebanon that looks as if was attacked by a blow torch. I talked about the Douglas Fir scorched in another post. Reports of burned raspberries on the news. Scorched Viburnum Davidii in our front yard.

It is not time for talking about profits, political fabrications, conspiracy theories, or nonsense; it is time for action both locally and globally. We are the stewards of this earth our children will judge us by the actions we take now (or, God forbid, don’t take).
This is a call to action.