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[–] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Get ready for this headline every year.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We already have it. Every year, we hit a new record in "hottest day of the year".

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[–] agreyworld@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

‘It’s not normal’

It is now.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (33 children)

Does Italy have air conditioned cooling centers like California does?

[–] nefonous@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know what people are smoking, maybe it's too much heat, but air conditioning is very common and normal here in Italy too.

I don't know what a cooling center is, but there is AC everywhere, and when there isn't it's a choice of the owner to avoid installing it.

Also it's not the first time we reach similar temperatures sadly. We get around 40°C basically every year. The south of Italy is clearly on a very high and uncommon peak, tho.

The situation is different in other countries like Germany, northern France or England. Until a few years ago they never needed AC at all so most homes don't have it and it's not even that easy and immediate to have it installed

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[–] c4lvaruga@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Sadly this is the new normal...

[–] Loki@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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