• @[email protected]
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    711 months ago

    When I look at the weather app on my phone and it tells me of an “excessive heat warning”…. Yeah.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      This summer so far I’ve had either a non stop smoke warning or a non stop heat warning. Or both!

  • Ni
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    611 months ago

    Era of global boiling sounds very reassuring. When are our policy makers going to actually start acting?

  • Kerrigor
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    511 months ago

    Seriously. Climate change is the most useless term, it doesn’t have the necessary oomph. Call it climate destruction.

    • Mysteriarch ☀️OP
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      1011 months ago

      I think The Guardian has committed a few years ago to call it the ‘climate crisis’ (they also have a dedicated category page with the title). But yeah, language matters. I tend to use climate catastrophe.

      • TheSaneWriterA
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        211 months ago

        I like the name climate crisis. It’s formal sounding but conveys the direness of the situation much better than climate change.

        • Ni
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          211 months ago

          I’m with you, I’ve started referring to it with this name. It’s apt, we’re in a current crisis not a situation that we will only see effects from generations from now. I talk to a lot of people who seem to think this is a next generation problem, even the current young generation.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    “Hottest month on record” is a massive understatement when there have been 24 consecutive days hotter than any recorded before July 3 this year.

  • ArugulaZ
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    211 months ago

    Since the media makes excuses for the rednecks who shoot up malls (“they’re suffering from economic anxiety!”), I should get a free pass to slap the ever-loving shit out of a Koch brother, on account of my climate anxiety.