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
The solution is of course to dismantle the climate monitoring infrastructure.
Hopefully enough MAGAts drop dead from the heat to make a difference.
“It’s always been this way”
“Fuck the Rust Belt in particular.”
Man, Ohio just… continues to be the worst place.
could feel as high
So what are the USA citizens doing to slow down climate change?
Since you asked, as citizens my family and I:
Have enough solar on our roof to cover our energy use 90% of the time
Sealed our house and improved its insulation for energy efficiency
Drive a plug-in hybrid and avoid unnecessary driving
Have been pressuring our town to be less car dependent and we recently voted to create a mix-use, walkable area down town
Have started a garden to supplement our food
Recycle and try to buy products with easily recyclable, low waste packaging
Try to repair and reuse when possible
Buy used instead of new whenever possible
Try to order things locally or in the US whenever possible, from companies that aren’t billionaire owned
Vote in every election, even the little ones, for folks who make a strong stand for climate action. Talk to our neighbors about upcoming elections and sometimes remind them or even drive them to polling placesMint!
As individuals some are moving to use heat pumps or ebikes or EVs and install solar. Some communities have passed laws to make that transition happen at q local or even state level.
But without the majority operating in concert politically, we get a federal government operating to block as much of that as possible at the behest of the fossil fuels industry
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.
I’m furiously masturbating to pictures of starving families while I choke another cheeseburger down my fat gullet.
wtf do you mean what are the citizens doing? citizens have zero control over what their countries manufacture or how much pollution is generated.
I bet you use paper straws and think you’re helping make the world a better place.
I don’t see anyone asking what Chinese citizens are doing? why not ask them to knock it off for a while since they’re almost 3 times higher than the US. not that they have any control either…
I’m with you: is a challenging situation.
Burn more coal to lower the AC.
