On 8/2/21 5:28 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> Now that is funny. Global Warming is a Global thing right? So isn't
> Canada supposed to melt just like everything else.
>
> I thought the world was goin to burn up in 12 years. Been hearing that
> for decades.
>
The world *is* burning. Canada *is* melting, figuratively speaking.
Unless you've forgotten, 2020 was the worst year in American history for
wildfires, not to mention globally it was bad. 17 million hectares of
Australia was torched in early 2020 due to their horrible wildfire
season (an area more than half the size of Arizona), and I have no idea
how much of California and Arizona was torched either but it was a lot.
Of course, we were so caught up in COVID-19 at the time, it was easy to
overlook.
But lets not forget a month ago, the largest American and Canadian
heatwave in recorded history:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/canada-records-all-time-high-temperature-of-49-5-degrees-celsius-weather-service-2475617
For the record, that is maybe a half a degree as hot as Phoenix's all
time record, and Canada is about 1500 miles north of us.
Just as we here in Phoenix don't build our houses to withstand a
blizzard (because why would we?), those folk up north didn't build their
houses to withstand a heatwave. Now? Tens of millions of people in
Canada, not to mention tens of millions of people in the northern US
states, have to retrofit their homes to deal with heat waves they've
never had to worry about before. That costs money, time, and
unfortunately some pay with their lives, and is only a bandaid to the
problem, not a fix.
Oh yeah, and this might be a boon for shipping, but its only a matter of
time before the Arctic Ocean ceases to have sea ice at all during the
summer temperature patterns in the northern hemisphere permanently
change (nevermind the widespread damage it is doing to animal
populations in the arctic):
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147746/the-long-decline-of-arctic-sea-ice
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