Climate change is making summers hotter, blackouts more common, and heat-related illness more dangerous. The power system may be resilient—but it still has vulnerabilities.
  • hedge@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What boggles my mind is that people are apparently moving to Texas, Florida, and the Southwest in droves because (at least in part) California isn’t nice anymore, has too many regulations, whatever; do these folks know that they’re moving to some of the most heat-stressed and water-stressed parts of the US? I’m guessing that a lot of them will be regretting their decision to move sooner rather than later. But to those who are already there, please do your best to stay cool and safe!

  • surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.euEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Living in an apartment on the top floor where I got to experience 90-100 degree weather for several weeks while the AC was broken… this is the climate change shit I worry about the immediate impact of. Saw a graph that showed the rise in night temperatures over 70 degrees and it’s concerning.

    I’d love to own a passive haus to reduce energy costs related to cooling but a) I don’t have that kind of money, b) they’re primarily being adopted in Europe, and c) they gotta be built from scratch and those builders in the US are primarily in the Northeast.

    • shanghaibebop@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Time for a swamp cooler and water-soaking buckets.

      in all seriousness that sounds horrible. Had to live in non-AC dorms in university which reached ~ mid-80s at night during a heat wave and was pretty much uninhabitable during the day when there was a heat wave. That was terrible.