Is extreme heat the new normal? Climate change will only get ‘harsher’ unless we fix crisis: Expert
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More than 1,300 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid extreme heat. Also, over 40 million people in the U.S. are under heat alerts as severe flooding hits certain areas. David Wallace-Wells, author of “The Uninhabitable Earth,” shares his expertise on the climate crisis.
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Both of these people are sitting in rooms with air conditioning which heavily contributes to energy use ie carbon production. 🤡
Just when they're getting rid of the migrants to do the really hard jobs, at cheap rates, in the outdoors. They are about to find out how bad they really need them.
Climate crisis will never really addressed in a Congress that is dominated and subservient to corporate power (both for profit and non profit)
It is 10 degrees lower than last year t this time. We actually had rain the past few weeks. Iowa always floods at this time.
Heat is typical this time of year 👍 been this way for my 46 trips around the sun just saying We probably have ten thousand more years after the polar caps melt before the second ice ice …..most people don't realize during the time of the dinosaur this planet was a tropical oven volcanos all over the place green house gases probably a thousand times worse than what we're breathing the earth will likely go cold again and repair herself again but thats at least 10 or 20 years away maybe longer ….wanna know why I do t get behind the climate change scare hype because politicians just wanna change the rules for citizens not the corporations that actually causing 85% of the planets pollution 😂😂😂😂
The book of Revelation predicted severe heat… But people would still not repent
Summer heat waves are nothing new. We live in the northeast where it was in the mid-high 90s all last week. We AVERAGE 9…90-degree days a summer. Last year in 2023 we had just 2. The record is 32 – in 1953! That’s 70 years ago long before anyone was talking about climate change or global warming!
Climate change expert. Lol!
Republican denial and anti environmental policies will make this exponentially worse. Save our world and vote blue
The “new normal” is progressively worse weather every year. The rate of it getting worse will also increase. Every month record high temps year after year. My guess is within the next 5 years we’ll see a “wet bulb” event somewhere in the world with 1000s of people dying as a result.
Cat 5 hurricanes and record number of F5 tornados. Massive flood events occurring more frequently. Worldwide food collapse due to s ere drought in a major food producing region. These are all the things that fossil fuel company greed, propaganda, and stupid people will plague all of us with.
I'd be all for this but if your as old as me you remeber in the 70's the fear was global cooling. Fast forward to the 90's and Al Gore predicted NY would be under water.
In life you only get to be wrong so many times before people stop listening.
Editing room: put a picture of a ⚫️ man, to insinuate to our ⚪️ viewers, that ⚫️⚫️ are having a hard time in this heat. This will make ⚪️⚪️ feel good, and will distract them from their own people dropping at alarming rates due to their number one enemy…the sun.
The southeast red states can continue jeering at science as they BAKE in ever hotter weather and get pummeled by stronger hurricanes.
0:52 even then theyll ruse
Every summer there is extreme heat and has been that I know of since the early 60's. I am 67 and remember extreme heat in every part of the country every year, this is nothing new. Air conditioning is much more available now then it was then, most cars were not air conditioned and many houses were not, we had fans, water came from the hose and tap and it tasted good, we turned on the sprinkler or went to a local community pool when it was hot, we made popsicles from juice or kool aid to cool off, we did not whine and it did not make news because it was hot, it was called summer, just like it is now. In 1977 we had several days in the 100s, one day was 107, it was what it was. I was in Montreal in July 1990, it was 85, no one was surprised. MSNBC, the Chicken Little of media sources bought by government is the cause of this "extreme heat". It bothers you, consider weight loss, you just might be a lard @$$!!
Neanderthals thought a warm climate during the Eemian interglacial was the new normal. Then all of a sudden…ICE…EVERYWHERE.
All part of the reset. With the desalination of the oceans we will be complaining how its too cold. The story is even more complicated and scary.
Total BS!
CO2 is good for the earth it makes plant life grow faster and help wildlife to thrive. Our planet is 5% greener than is was 20 years ago thanks to CO2. Our magnetosphere is weakening, causing the sun to have more of an effect on the earth.
NO ONE CAN STOP THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMIN.
DIDN'T TELLIN THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SUN CORE ALSO BLACK CORONAL DARK SPOT.
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I'm actually looking forward to climate change. It will turn my area into a very temperate, lush environment. We will even be able to grow things like coffee! Not everyone suffers from climate change.
Climate change. 💡
I have the perfect solution to the climate problem, but nobody cares, all I need is a $10,000 grant!
New normal suggests we have arrived at a plateau. New normal means accelerating bad. 2,300 Americans died in the heat last summer (2023). Republicans want to dismantle what the Biden admin has started, Democrats want to accelerate the transition with more 21st century energy sector jobs.
Its the new normal and gonna get way worst.
The average global temperature for the 12-month period to the end of May was 1.63C (2.9F) above the pre-industrial average
We don't have 50 years😮
Keep feeding the narrative. The climate change narrative perpetuated by elites who have multiple houses, usually on the beach and fly around in private jets. I hear even Al gore that producer of an inconvenient truth has a villa on the beach. He's not so scared about sea level rises. 😂😂😂😂
Temperatures hit 103 June 24 here in middle Georgia….I haven't seen temps this high in June.😮
In all honesty, it’s probably too late. A normal climate shift which has happened on our planet for billions of years. The earth will heal itself hence, another ice age. It is what it is.
Keep burning fossil fuels and the climate will get worse. This is the beginning of the end. Climate change deniers will learn the hard way, which is what they like to do. Even then they will be screaming that it always gets hot in the summer and areas always flood. Trying to have an intelligent conversation, complete with data, with these people is a waste of breath. They are just too stupid and as they say, you can't fix stupid.
The pigs deny climate change.
Cant impress if you care with brain, brain steam yes.
Bring it on think of the depravity.
Yahoo just published an article that we actually cooled the planet last year, was that a good correction? Of course not, this is still climate change and we need to scrap our gas cars for E/V. How about China tart first, they have been constructing 1 al plant a month for the past 2 years, they have 1.5 billion people, weactually filter exhaust from all our power plants. We are not the problemChina and all the other 3rd world lol, countries are. How about we tarriff all their goods and start producing our own medicines and manufacturing parts, like steel? Because that hurts our politicians pocketbook. C.C. initiatives is to make our politicians rich. Earth has had 5 ice ages, it was only habitable for humans less than half its existence. Guess what, thhe sun will not last forever, nor will the universe, like a candle it slowly burns out, then what will we do?
Ive been alive 40 years and remember having extreme heat ever year. How is this news? Its call "summer"
Great must-read book by Wallace-Wells, but he, also, is following the false meme of CO2 being the primary cause of global heating and climate collapse. Remember, didn't your ole grandma always warn you: "where's there smoke, there's fire". Our incessant burning of 8 billion tons of coal per year and 100 million barrels of oil per day, along with the trapped solar radiation from the "Greenhouse" effect, is releasing the heat energy equivalent of 13-20 Hiroshima yield nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, 1,036,800+ per day, where each one releases 63 trillion BTUs. Look beyond the "smoke" and see the fire that is burning-up us and the rest of life on this once ideal planet. Don't mistake the smoke for the real problem and the source of the smoke: BURNING FOSSIL FUELS by each and every one of us 8 billion citizens of our once garden planet. Listen to your grandma. I did.
"Is there action we can take on an individual scale?" Reduce consumption of fossil fuels, reuse, recycle, avoid single use/all plastic, and ignore the feckless governments/corporations who discourage INDIVIDUAL action to REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Sorry to see my once hero David Wallace-Williams be so misled and misinformed.
I just thought it was summer time
the wealth & politicians are to blame for climate change crisis and a lack of fusion energy