Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread) (Part 1)

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… a wet-bulb temperature of 19.6° C is supposed to be “comfortable” but it seems pretty gross to me

PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL  AIRPORT, OR, United States (KPDX) 45-35N 122-36W 7M
Jul 22, 2023 - 06:53 PM EDT / 2023.07.22 2253 UTC
Wind: from the WNW (290 degrees) at 12 MPH (10 KT) gusting to 17 MPH (15 KT):0
Visibility: 10 mile(s):0
Sky conditions: mostly clear
Temperature: 87.1 F (30.6 C)
Dew Point: 55.0 F (12.8 C)
Relative Humidity: 33%
Pressure (altimeter): 30 in. Hg (1015 hPa)
ob: KPDX 222253Z 29010G15KT 10SM FEW050 31/13 A3000 RMK AO2 SLP157 T03060128
cycle: 23

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As my home city of Athens burns, I can only watch in amazement as sunseekers fly in

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Rewilding and how it might help combat climate change:

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and yet, this record hot summer may well be the coolest summer of the rest of our lives.

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… and just now the air here smells like a campfire

… we’re having an El Niño year, so probably not, but the overall curve will continue upward :hot_face:

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BBC News - Rhodes wildfires are ‘like a biblical catastrophe’

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:sob:

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