One country had 18 times more dangerous heat days in a year as the world marks an unfortunate milestone
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As the world hits an alarming climate milestone, a new report by a US research team shows the staggering amount of extreme heat days each country experienced last year, with the majority made more likely by human-induced climate change.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10230630

Climate Central vice-president for science Andrew Pershing said the figures illustrated the “huge burden” the burning of fossil fuels imposed on people around the world

“Australia didn’t have a particularly interesting summer this year, but in Africa it’s just day after day after day of climate change just beating down on that continent.”

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I am sure we won’t get out of this.

    You’re in good company with that line of thinking

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820-200-understand-faulty-thinking-to-tackle-climate-change/

    DANIEL KAHNEMAN is not hopeful. “I am very sorry,” he told me, “but I am deeply pessimistic. I really see no path to success on climate change.”

    Kahneman’s views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists. As Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University says: “A psychologist could barely dream up a better scenario for paralysis.”

    Thay said, I keep my emisisons low, vote green, but plan for the worst while hoping for the best.