As with any heat, climate change is also contributing to this event. Research nonprofit Climate Central shows that for the hardest-hit areas, warming is making this heat wave 4 to 5 times as likely as it would be if global temperatures were not rising.
Archived copies of the article:
- ghostarchive.org
- web.archive.org — missing weather maps
- archive.today — sometimes modifies archived pages
So it boils down to voting for the right politicians.
In the US?? If only that were possible. :-/
Unfortunately we’re past where voting matters
More than half of all coal emissions are from China - 2.5-fold higher than the USA - yet China is also building renewables at a faster rate than the rest of the world too.
As people who refuse to turn down their AC, take vaccines, or eat non-beef almost daily die off, ironically it will get easier to control the pace of climate change.
Also, overly simplistic FPTP voting systems are failing all across the globe, not just the USA, as disinformation campaigns succeed - and arguably our being here using Lemmy is helping contribute to its spread (not directly but by enticing an audience here who will refuse to actually read things and thereby be capable of spotting it when it occurs). Yet the demise of the old opens up the opportunity to change those broken systems!!
There is still hope, for the planet at least if not for the old institutions.