Parts of eastern Japan are expected to reach 38 to 39 degrees Celsius, with the Meteorological Agency warning temperatures could hit previous records.

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    We are somehow still not panicking and see that as a point of no return for climate change. These temperatures are still the lowest ones we will experience from now on.

    Hopefully, some ignorant people or even climate change deniers will switch their positions and actually support green policies now.

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      Unfortunately, a lot of folks in power would happily watch the world burn if it means they stay in power. They know they’re rich enough that it won’t hurt them.

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      For deniers, it getting hotter will never work. There’s an argument about the world being in a long cycle between hot eras & ice ages and temperature records don’t mean much when accurate records only go back one or two hundred years.

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    Still the thumbnail shows people at the beach instead of dry river banks or the handful of remaining wild animals dying in our burning forests…

    This is the equivalent of illustrating an article about the “possible danger of smoking cigarettes “ in the 60/70s and illustrating it with a cool picture of James Dean having a smoke.

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    Yeah, poor people are fucked… As much as I want to hope, it will be the poorest who will pay the greatest price. It has always been true for almost every major crisis in the world…

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      Everyone’s fucked. We’ll see mass migrations and mass deaths among poor people. and then the civilised world as we know it would end because it is sustsined by the labour provided by poor people.

      There’ll be no one to do the lowly paid but extremely important jobs. Will the wealthy grow & pick their own crops? rear and slaugter their own meat? fish fr their lobsters? or clear up garbage? or operate the sewage treatment plant?

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      The article forgot to mention that starting in April’23, South Asia experienced a an almost 3-month long killer heat wave.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Asia_heat_wave

      Before the unexpectedly heavy rains that is killing people in India now, India witnessed a heatwave like never-before . We are used to heatwaves, but this year has been really grim. So many people died that the central govt & the UP state govt got scared and refused to classify these deaths due to heatstroke/ heatwave.
      India’s PM Modi has publicly said “climate is not changing, we are changing” and accepting these deaths as due to heatwave caused by climate change would embarrass the dictator. so it doesn’t get acknowledged and nothing will be done to manage it.

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    This is also a El Nino year, and the start of the El Nino cycle. An El Nino cycle is typically 2-7 years long. So we’ll experience even more disrupted rain cycles. For rain & monsoon dependent economies this’ll be hell. Plus lesser rains means hotter & drier weather, longer droughts and food shortages.

    Is there a term for more hellish/ worse than the current hell? We’ll all be needing that term.