‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f

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 :)

At this point, I'm down for the execution of selfish billionaires who actively push for coal and other harmful climate policies. They not only don't care about the world, they are actively harming it to make their short time left feel better from seeing a number go up in their bank.

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.

It´s called climate change and this is just the beginning. Scientists have warned us for decades now but humanity chose to ignore that until it was too late. Now you can see the consequences of that fatal ignorance. Humanity is fucked thanks to the greedy people who own the industry and the corrupt politicians who never properly regulated them. Enjoy!

And please everyone keep in mind: Donald Trump Thinks Global Warming Will Only Lead to 'Slightly More Seafront Property

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

whatever could we have done to stop this!!!

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.

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:

Take the Celsius value and double it

40 * 2 = 80

Subtract 10%

80 - 8 = 72

Add 32

72 + 32 = 104

40 C = 104 F

This is still hot but a far cry from 118F

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

Get ready for this headline every year.

In North Carolina, we had a "winter that wasn't" and now we have a summer of "surface of the sun" heat. Triple digit heat index every day last week. Good luck getting the locals to admit that climate change is real though. At this point I think some of them are actually starting to see the truth, but it just pisses them off and they dig in to denial even harder, because if there's one thing they can't do it's admit they were wrong.

‘It’s not normal’

It is now.

Who could have predicted this!?!?? Why weren't we warned?

Does Italy have air conditioned cooling centers like California does?

I honestly get dizzy by just looking at those numbers...😵‍💫

Sadly this is the new normal...

Holy fuck

What suprises me the most when watching news on this. You will see people in Rome getting interviewed in the middle of a plaza in the burning sun. And there are many walking outside. I would crawl into a cool cellar and only come out at night.

Like when whole countries begin to go green and EVs are being more realistic and tangible, and to top off no seemingly push back from big oil, you know shit needs to change

40-45C happens in our summers on a semi regular basis (thank f*** last summer we only had a handful of days like that). Inner Oz can reach close to 50C in some areas.....

Aircon plus solar panels for the win? Other than the initial manufacturing cost, it's a fairly good solution.

For those with a limited budget in a dry heat area, a large portable Swamp box and a single panel may be enough. Needs access to water though...

It's normal now.

500 years later, Europe finds out their Industrial Revolution has consequences, for everyone. Yay!

I really don't like seeing these temperatures and I also don't like that governments have not educated the public effectively on what to do to limit climate change. It's a tragedy to see people making irrational and ineffective descisions out of fear.

I already knew that we're fucked. But scientist said more around 2050 or something. The way things are progressing right now the next 10 to 20 years are going to be dicey.

"No one could have prevented this."

Well it's normal NOW...

And yet we're still forces to work

It's normal in a silly mustache disguise!

We are so fucked....

LeopardsAteMyFace moment for the human race lol

Climate change is real but it's not as drastic as this. A lot of people refer to this phenomena as "El Nino" and "La Nina" and they describe a changing pattern in ocean surface temperature and winds that drastically shift the average temperature.

Climate change is just increasing the average temperature of the range over time. But to say that this "118F temperature is entirely because of climate change" is kinda disingenuous. The warming effect of climate change has been observed to be about ~1F per 30 years or so. So if we went back 60 years, this "118F" summer in Italy would be about "116F" and would be almost equally absurd.

Needs more car races

Oh well, summer in the Northern Europe is cold as it has always been. Not denying global warming, just wish for warmer weather.

Europe moment

When talking with a past university professor, he told us a big part of the global warming problem was actually a natural cycle the earth goes through every certain period of time.