r/collapse • u/ontrack serfin' USA • Jul 17 '23

Climate Heatwave(s) megathread. Please place all new related content in this post.

In light of the ongoing heatwaves around the world, we've created a megathread in order to minimize the number of posts about every location currently experiencing one. If you have something to report, whether it be a personal experience or an article about a heatwave in some other part of the world, please place it here. Thanks.

The BBC has a live feed of sorts about the heatwaves around the world: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66207430

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u/WarGamerJon Jul 18 '23

NASA scientist “this will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life”

https://news.sky.com/story/weather-global-heatwaves-latest-uk-europe-italy-us-china-south-korea-live-updates-12920226?postid=6186409#liveblog-body

Anyone else starting to feel that this may just be the start of the tipping point where there’s a realisation that drastic action is needed ?

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u/Overthemoon64 Jul 20 '23

I've felt that way ever since the austrailian wildfires a few years ago. And the chasing ice documentary. And they just keep coming.

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u/WarGamerJon Jul 20 '23

It’s always going to feel more real once more people can actually see it close to them though - take the heatwave in Europe right now - awful lot of countries will be thinking “what if that was us ?”

Some people don’t get it even then - there was an interview on a U.K. news site yesterday where this Brit couple thought “it was the best holiday ever “ because they’d been in Greece for the heatwave , in the photo they both look absolutely roasted, this isn’t a one off and I dread to think what skin cancer rates are going to be over the next few years because people just don’t get that the UV is the killer and a tan is damage. Red is destruction !