Climate

The record cancelation of flights out of Phoenix, Arizona in the summer of 2017 due to unusually high air temperature is the reason I picked my doctoral research topic on the impacts of climate change on aviation.

Now, Phoenix set another unfortunate record: 100 straight days of 100°F (~38°C) or greater heat, beating the previous streak by 3.5 weeks.

The death toll will likely be in the hundreds this year (it was 645 last year for the whole Maricopa county). But of course, this does not include the death of local fauna and flora, which is silent until we find our food chains disrupted.

The record cancelation of flights out of Phoenix, Arizona in the summer of 2017 due to unusually high air temperature is the reason I picked my doctoral research topic on the impacts of climate change on aviation.

Now, Phoenix set another unfortunate record: 100 straight days of 100°F (~38°C) or greater heat, beating the previous streak by 3.5 weeks.

The death toll will likely be in the hundreds this year (it was 645 last year for the whole Maricopa county). But of course, this does not include the death of local fauna and flora, which is silent until we find our food chains disrupted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/

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This is the thing. Whole regions may become uninhabitable soon. Something like 80% of the people of the Sahel don't have regular access to potable water, and the region was very reliant on Ukraine for food. Solving this is beyond pressing, no one is even talking about it, outside of a few UN institutions and William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson. The world is locking down, not trying to work together.