A heat wave currently roasting the southeastern US is expected to spread into the country’s Midwest and northeast, potentially affecting nearly 250 million people, with temperatures up to 40C.

I regret to inform everyone that the events depicted in the first chapter of The Ministry for the Future have become inevitable in this timeline

The entire world at 40°:

The United States, also at 40°:

I really hope we have funny show trials for oil company ceos someday.

There's always this tacit assumption by chud and liberal westerners that climate change catastrophes are a "third world thing", if they even believe in it at all

Well that assumption is some big old doo doo

This is fine, I don't know what a C is anyways.

I remember as a kid during the summer in my area we would have maybe like a few days or a week of heat and that would be the heat wave for the year. Then it became 1-2 weeks of heat, then multiple heatwaves per year, and now it's just common for the heat to hang around all summer and then a solid 2ish months of high temps from like October to mid/late November. Last year I was wearing my summer clothes through early December. very cool and not concerning at all

We're getting our first heat wave next week. Granted it's a high of only 89 or so, low 90's, 104 F sounds unbearable.

how common are acs in those parts? i imagined they're much more common than in britain