Yeah, and I’m from australia, where normal temps can be higher than that too. You know what? We build appropriately. We hydrate. We use air con and shade. People are accustomed to it.
I also recognise that many other countries are not used to these temperatures and that although we’ve faced them before in Australia, we are now facing them more often and with more intensity. Also, with more floods at other times. More droughts and more extreme weather events of other kinds.
People are dying due to climate change. In this case, it includes two children who died in a car.
I’m in my 40s. London is usually a few degrees warmer than ireland where I grew up. The temp was often mid 20s for a week or two every summer. 30 was not normal but is now more common.
So you’ll stick your head in the sand? You can’t ignore the climate forever. You need air conditioning now, you are no longer in a climate where you don’t need it.
Some people simply don’t have the means to do anything about it. Telling them “just deal with it” is like telling them to pull themselves by their bootstraps.
Not everyone has the means here either and even those of us that do often don’t have the means to run it at comfortable levels- my AC is set to 30c in summer, 18c in winter. Just enough to be tolerable.
But if you don’t have the means, you need to find other ways to cool down - our general advice in heatwaves to the elderly (that are at higher risk and often don’t have the means to run ac all day) is to go to shopping centres, public libraries and government buildings to stay cool.
Drinks LOTS of chilled water.
‘Just deal with it’ isn’t that takeaway, it’s if you do nothing, you will die. The government can’t regulate the whether to be more amenable to human life.
Not that bad honestly.
Can we not start treating heatwaves as a fucking highscore to be beaten?
Phoenix, Arizona: “first time?”
Yeah, and I’m from australia, where normal temps can be higher than that too. You know what? We build appropriately. We hydrate. We use air con and shade. People are accustomed to it.
I also recognise that many other countries are not used to these temperatures and that although we’ve faced them before in Australia, we are now facing them more often and with more intensity. Also, with more floods at other times. More droughts and more extreme weather events of other kinds.
People are dying due to climate change. In this case, it includes two children who died in a car.
I swear until maybe a decade ago a hot day in the U.K. was about 17/18 Celsius.
20 probably happened now and then.
I’m in my 40s. London is usually a few degrees warmer than ireland where I grew up. The temp was often mid 20s for a week or two every summer. 30 was not normal but is now more common.
The 1976 summer oldies rant about is now not even in the top ten UK hottest days.
brain dead take
Imagine taking a text-meme seriously
👌🧠🌌🤯
Totally normal to compare a standard temperature found in a literal desert and never seen before temperatures in a usually temperate climate.
The joke
Your head
These aren’t people living somewhere unsurvivable without aircon in every building
As it turns out though, they are.
They just don’t want to believe it or plan appropriately.
I don’t even know where to begin answering this comment, so I’ll say just this: you should be ashamed of yourself.
So you’ll stick your head in the sand? You can’t ignore the climate forever. You need air conditioning now, you are no longer in a climate where you don’t need it.
Some people simply don’t have the means to do anything about it. Telling them “just deal with it” is like telling them to pull themselves by their bootstraps.
Not everyone has the means here either and even those of us that do often don’t have the means to run it at comfortable levels- my AC is set to 30c in summer, 18c in winter. Just enough to be tolerable.
But if you don’t have the means, you need to find other ways to cool down - our general advice in heatwaves to the elderly (that are at higher risk and often don’t have the means to run ac all day) is to go to shopping centres, public libraries and government buildings to stay cool.
Drinks LOTS of chilled water.
‘Just deal with it’ isn’t that takeaway, it’s if you do nothing, you will die. The government can’t regulate the whether to be more amenable to human life.