This is fine, we just need to switch from plastic bugs and make caps attached to bottles and everything will be alright! Together we can fight at least 1% of the carbon emissions from top 100 corporations in the world :)

If only somebody warned us 50 or 100 years ago. Oh wait, they did.

Honestly I will never forgive people who STILL continue to deny climate change is happening and refuse to legilslate on it.

New normal, folks. So begins the era of climate migration.

A reminder that this is why we should never tolerate selfishness. We're now largely screwed because we, as a species, valued our individual comfort over expert research.

We knew what we needed to do - but no, profits. Such a dumb way to die.

We fucked around, now we're going to start finding out.

Don't worry guys, everything is fine. We just need to [redacted] and this will all go back to normal in no time.

The EU needs to wake up and go hard on companies and industries. No mercy, no half-assing, just legislate the absolute shit out of them for once so that maybe our children can survive and live in not so terrible conditions, because not so terrible is the best we can hope for at this point.

The rest of the world too obviously, but the EU seems the most likely to do so.

and people say global warming/climate change is not real

"... It's not normal"

It wasn't normal.

Nowadays it is.

Let's be honest, this will end up with only the ultra-rich surviving in the last few strips of livable surface of the planet - and them elated to have finally "culled the undeserving" as they have been hoping for for millennia.

The world, especially US china EU, has such vertically entangled petro consumption, infrastructure, and maybe worst of all as far as making changes go, growth corporations feeding off it/us, well probably have rapid, vs slower and assimilable, collapse.

Hell today's "homeless problem" will be a trivial joke relative to millions of people fleeing situations literally in-tolerable for countless reasons, probably soon enough -- if this took place over 25 years it would be painful enough. If we get rapid migrations it'll be war.

I'm Italian myself. The issue with this heat is that it's humid too, I live in the riviera and we've had constant 35-37°C weather with high humidity for a week now

Yet, social medias are filled with people saying that they saw this every day when they were younger and the millenials are just weak and should stop complaining.

Meanwhile big polluters like Shell and others help pumping emissions and try to keep carbon based economy for short term profit 🙄

I was working outside this week (Southern US) and it was an absolutely miserable week. After a half an hour I was drenched in sweat, and it was rolling off my hard hat, getting in my eyes, and I was forced to pace myself and work much slower than I would otherwise be able to do because the heat was that intense.

I was able to drink some of my coconut water reserve because it has the things plants crave.

It's definitely the worst summer heat I've felt since ever.

whatever could we have done to stop this!!!

Where I stay these temperatures can be quite normal in summer. I'm now just worried that a hot summer's day here will now go from 45 to 55. I've felt 50 before. It's not fun. But besides that, I think of the implications for the agricultural sector. Good luck my European friends. I'll report back in our summer.

I think climate change is happening far sooner than scientists could have predicted. We focus on increased global average temperatures but I think that we are going to have insanely hot summers sooner. We're fucked.

Simple way to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit in your head:

1. Take the Celsius value and double it

40 * 2 = 80

2. Subtract 10%

80 - 8 = 72

3. Add 32

72 + 32 = 104

40 C = 104 F

This is still hot but a far cry from 118F

Everything is fine, the earth simply won't be habitable for humans. The Earth will spin on without us when we inevitably allow industry to destroy humanity by making earth uninhabitable by human life.

It's what we deserve for being so stupid as to see this happening and doing nothing about it to stop it or slow it down. There's plenty of climate change advocates which are almost always drowned out by the chorus of companies and climate deniers who believe propaganda over science.

40c is 104f. The article mentions possibly peaking at 48c, which is 118f. In case anyone thought something was a little off

40C is not 118F