When the core temperature of our bodies rises too high, the proteins in our cells begin to unravel. The Heat Is Likely to Get Worse Next Week
This past week, records were set or tied on four consecutive days as the hottest days ever recorded on Earth.
Fortunately, despite high demand for electricity from everyone cranking their A.C., the Texas grid has held steady, largely because of the enormous number of solar panels that have come online in Texas in recent years.
There is a lot of talk now about the need for inspiring stories and hopeful solutions. I agree. We are not doomed. In fact, I think the climate crisis is, above all else, an opportunity to change how we think about our relationship with nature and build a happier, healthier, more just world.
But living under the Texas heat dome has reinforced my view that we have to be cleareyed about the scope and scale of what we are facing.
Jeff Goodell New York Times 8 July 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/opinion/heat-texas-climate.html
Jeff Goodell is the author of the forthcoming book, “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.”
The Heat Is Likely to Get Worse Next Week
When Will It End? Not soon. The heat wave across the South, from Florida to California, is expected to last at least two more weeks. That’s not a prediction for an eventual respite; it’s just that forecasts are fuzzy more than 14 days out. So the heat could continue.
Judson Jones New York Times 7 July 2023
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https://www.nytimes.com/article/heat-forecast-us-south.html
This is what global warming looks like
Released 50 years ago, “Soylent Green” is an eerie prophecy
Pollution and overpopulation have ravaged the natural world, resources are scarce and climate change has brought on “a heatwave all year long”. The unnerving part is that the story is set in 2022. It is impossible to watch the film today without weighing up how accurate its predictions turned out to be.
Some elements are too close to reality for comfort: the enmeshing of politics and big business, the separation of rich and poor, and the clashes between the masses and the heavily armed riot police.
The relentless, sticky heat may be familiar to modern viewers, too.
The film’s most daringly cynical touch is that New York’s citizens are resigned to the way things are. Nobody thinks that nature might one day recover. Nobody rebels against the corrupt system.
The Economist 2 February 2023
Something Was Messing With Earth’s Axis.
Scientists knew the planet’s centerline could move. But it took a sharp turn sometime around the start of the 2000s.
Since then, satellites that measure variations in Earth’s gravity have revealed the staggering extent to which groundwater supplies have declined in particular regions, including India and the Central Valley of California.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/climate/groundwater-earth-spin-axis.html
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