Jeff Goodell on ‘The Heat Will Kill You First’

Jeff Goodell, longtime climate journalist and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, is documenting the global toll of extreme heat in his new book, "The Heat Will Kill You First." Goodell joins The Post’s Juliet Eilperin to discuss the impact of a warming planet, the record temperatures this summer and how human beings can adapt.
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[@markharris5544]

Don't forget someone has to repair the air conditioning. I once was asked to repair an air conditioner, the part of it that was in a 120 degree attic. I told the homeowners that I'd only do that if they would dose me with cold water when I came down for relief every three minutes. They agreed and we succeeded in fixing the air conditioning but I certainly wouldn't want to try and live in that kind of heat; it was like working in an oven.

[@izdotcarter]

Excellent perspective

[@JoanneVasquez-ch1qy]

Please be careful! Both my son's work jobs that require being out doors, mostly in the summer. I worry about anyone that has to deal with this oppressive heat! I choose not to drive, I rely on public transportation which is really bad in my city. I have to go out very early to avoid heat exhaustion which already happened to me in July.

[@technodemic6258]

So service it in the winter.

[@markharris5544]

@@technodemic6258 The A.C, was broken. The house was 100 degrees; I dont think my customers would have been happy with your plan.

[@technodemic6258]

@@markharris5544 I sympathise, my friend. I admit to a certain facetiousness. I live in Spain and trying to find an engineer who would provide regular service maintenance to an a/c system during the winter is like looking for a boil on a Komodo Dragon's bum ( something I do quite regularly - ha, ha). They wait till you're in dire straits so that they can blackmail you with an overcharge. But I think it's a mistake to link such lethal conditions to climate change. These things happen as part of life - though it would be nice to witness the bloody commie Chinese reducing THEIR carbon footprints!!!

[@mistletoe4961]

We are all effed. Part of the reason our grown children are choosing not to have their own children. So much for having grandchildren, I guess. I don't blame them one bit for their decision. We raised them to make logical, critically-thought decisions. 😐

[@technodemic6258]

Perhaps they just don't fancy each other any more?

[@thevindictive6145]

I did not have children as well as I knew this day was coming twenty five years ago. I listened to the science people listened to the sentiment of society. They had kids and now worrying what the future holds when its so obvious on a daily basis they walk out the house and feel the heat. For me the path was obvious, change or no kids. Society did not change so no kids.

[@KatsCorner]

I am sixty and did not have children because it was obvious this day was coming. People only cared about money. Such a sad state of affairs. I did not travel a lot. I have always taken the bus. I shower sparkling. I buy local food but it did not help.

[@lyyliesther984]

Yes me too, I am 40 and decided not to have children long ago because of climate change (I wish I could, I love children, but now I am glad I havent because this is happening very fast now and now I am worry about my chickens 🐓 future, I don't want them to suffer)

[@maddogwillie1019]

Grandkids are a double edged sword. I has three, between the ages of 2 and 11. I love being there grandpa and all that that entails. But I fear for their future…I fear the oldest will be faced with a life of fewer and fewer choices. I fear the youngest will not live beyond 50. There not a day of by that I don’t thing about it.

[@survivetheendoftheworlddai4343]

If heat don't kill us then hungry,thirst or WW3,we are doomed...

[@johnjohnson3370]

future looks bleak poor young people

[@thevindictive6145]

Well homeless people will not be a problem very soon. Thought humanity will leave earth and terraform other worlds to make more earth like planets, instead we are terraforming our only earth into venus.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

the elite wealthy are the real problem, not the homeless. Of course the Nazi fascists worshiped the elite wealthy - so I guess that's what we've returned to in the U.S. Hide in the middle of the herd and kick the dog. Those are signs of real strength.

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

[@ivandafoe5451]

Are you ready for all of the millions of climate refugees that will be moving there soon?

[@BobQuigley]

We built this Rube Goldberg machine one bad decision after another. One foundational mistake came out of the misguided model of "competition" accelerated by Reaganism. Tearing utilities to pieces then pitting each piece against the whole. Recent review finds that they do not communicate with each other very well. Have goals opposed to goals of other parts. Selling electricity significantly under total cost. Investing little to nothing into the transmission system. Isolating grids from each other. Imagine the grid was part of the Congressional Military industrial complex and it's owners operators the corporate Warfare Queens who NEVER lose a contract. Pouring as much money into life sustaining and enriching electricity as we do into our forever wars of choice. Our issues are within our power to improve. Unfortunately US political system abandoned rational thought. Abandoned laws of physics while participating in more wars of choice just since fall of USSR than in all of our previous history. Infuriating! Thanks for your efforts, we either give up one militarism or continue our slide into the abyss.

[@technodemic6258]

Haven't the foggiest what you're referring to???

[@ivandafoe5451]

@@technodemic6258 I guess that explains your other stupid remarks here.

[@DrSmooth2000]

​@@technodemic6258rational power distro but I don't know particular contours of Debate

[@eustacemullins5831]

im always a little cold so bring on the heat

[@colleensaunders6804]

Common sense is most uncommon. Education, science and our reliance on ‘tech fixes’ has undermined what all life intuitively knows is best for survival. Also, we need to be constantly reminded that fossil fuel is not only gas burned for transportation and electricity but also single use plastic that is now a menace around the world as most of what is disposed is not recyclable and is incinerated whether it’s in facilities well hidden from the public or by the side of the roads as in third world countries. I wish Jeff and the media would speak to the greenhouse gases and poisons that are released into the atmosphere by this. Surely politicians can get behind a simple ban of single use plastics and packaging. A little inconvenient perhaps but this crisis requires a collective and immediate solution - politicians, corporations and the general public working together. Why isn’t the media ferreting out good solutions that have already been adopted in other countries (Singapore comes to mind) and bring it to the American people? This climate change requires equally bold moves and initiatives as the Industrial Revolution that has over time brought it on.

[@Iquey]

I mean at this rate people would become fine with burning plastic to create energy to run their AC units 😂

[@kirstinstrand6292]

They are burning COAL as if it is not a major pollutant.

[@darrylday30]

“The culture of belief” terrifies me more than anything.

[@dougpage2730]

Ironically, polar vortex instability caused by climate change is causing periodical extreme cold in many northern regions. Consequently many people have decided to move south.

[@everforward8651]

You won me over. Now, where did you do your research on polar vortex instability, and where were the figures you saw on people moving south because of the extreme cold caused by that instability? I'd like to become as informed as possible about these subjects.

[@thethirdchimpanzee]

​@@everforward8651Are you being genuine? Just curious. The tie between the Polar Vortex and extreme cold snaps is pretty well known and there are a lot of videos about it here on the Tubes of the Internet. I personally do not have access to any figures about people migrating South because of the cold in the North (though for some reason, the populations of Phoenix and Las Vegas are GROWING faster than any other US cities - and that is despite the EVEN hotter, longer Summers, and the record breaking temps, and despite the rainfall decreasing and the begining of cuts to Arizona's share of Central Arizona Project/Colorado River water...new high-density apartment construction in Phoenix is BOOMING and I have heard it's the same for single-family tract homes in Las Vegas. And a quick Google search (or with the new Bing which now has Chat GPT4 AI built in, or that Duck one...)

[@DrSmooth2000]

​@@everforward8651uhaul has to pay people to return empties from Florida to Michigan Predates cv19 Arizona also fast growing state from 'native' Americans and immigrants alike Didn't blue states loose across the board in census 2020? People want the heat 🏝 🦜

[@TheDoomWizard]

Everyone will be screaming to death by the end of this decade.

[@JanetEarthOne]

Cause and effects around the globe. The shift is here.

[@JonathanLoganPDX]

@21 Min - Jeff seems to be ignoring the mega-methane and CO2 feedback loops that have already been triggered, and those yet to be triggered as cascading feedbacks emerge. We are already +2.0C above pre-industrial levels and above 420 PPM CO2 & approaching 600 PPM-eq if you att methane.

[@DrSmooth2000]

If we attach methane we make a new form of measurement not used really before now. Which is fine just has to be labeled 🏷 as such so older work is translated. WHO changed way heat deaths recorded and is incompatible w older data So have 20th century set and 21st and can't follow trends across

[@tselone]

Humans are riding on a train with no brakes! 😮

[@Milhouse77BS]

I need to rewatch Soylent Green

[@maddogwillie1019]

Ok we have three choices 1. Turn the boat around, meaning Globally stop burning fossil fuel, change the world economy that is not goal driven on constant growth. 2. Continue to burn fossil fuel, but start building lifeboats…meaning, move people, in an plan manner, way for low line coastal areas globally before they are forced to. figure out where in the future we can grow food and start building the infrastructure to those areas. Socially and financially support renewables energy generation even if it at a financial lose. 3. Do nothing, just keep it businesses as usual. Any guess as to which one we’ve chosen?

[@ivandafoe5451]

Who are the "we" who supposedly made the choice of #3? 1% of us...that's who "we" are. The 99% of the rest of us didn't have much say in the matter.

[@maddogwillie1019]

@@ivandafoe5451 well you’re right in a lot of respects…the “we” 99% are screwed

[@dtybur10]

Are you scared enough?! Are you doing your part? Good citizen? Tur your thermostat down 10 degrees in the winter, and up 10 degrees in the summer. Disavow air travel, that's but a small example of the sacrifice that nobody will ever commit to. Keep Worrying. It's the best thing for your health, besides how will people know how much you seem to care, unless you prove your virtue?!

[@maddogwillie1019]

@@dtybur10 nothing a person does is going to change what’s coming for future generations…the cast is set…so just hang on and try not to puke

[@dtybur10]

@@maddogwillie1019 Humans absolutely suck at prognostication, yet we wring our hands, and knash our teeth, worrying about the climate! There's always something to fear in life. However, as you get a little older, and hopefully a little wiser, you should understand that the future is uncertain. Try to gain perspective, meaning, try to discern the difference between a manufactured ' existential ' crisis, and adapting to the humble reality, that what you or I believe, is inconsequential. Live your life whit humility, and gratitude. Enjoy a sunny day! If the boogeyman man is real, then stand and fight.

[@pattoneill2402]

It strikes me that this could be (like the recent case in Montana) a Constitutional issue. We are given given the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If government is depriving you of your right to life by denying a water break in 115F heat......

[@rosered6600]

Military fuel use, cargo ships, commercial jets, cruise ships, methane leaks. Who profits. Key.

[@donnavorce8856]

Friend of mine showed me a map of all the jet traffic in the air. You, me, anyone can view jet traffic at any given time. The number of jumbo jets circling the globe CONSTANTLY tells me we are screwed. There's no competition when greed for money is involved. As long as the rich gain, screw the planet and everything else on it. "I've got mine. Screw you." The urge to amass resources IS sinking this tiny lifeboat we call earth.

[@Damremont18]

Most trees won’t survive in extreme heat so you count trees out in places that are close to uninhabitable for humans.

[@DrSmooth2000]

I wouldn't say that Trees better adapted than grain fersure. 40 is fine provided rain. Intramountain west of NorthAm is not doing well. No real issues Mississippi Valley east

[@DrSmooth2000]

I wouldn't say that Trees better adapted than grain fersure. 40 is fine provided rain. Intramountain west of NorthAm is not doing well. No real issues Mississippi Valley east

[@DrSmooth2000]

I wouldn't say that Trees better adapted than grain fersure. 40 is fine provided rain. Intramountain west of NorthAm is not doing well. No real issues Mississippi Valley east

[@kimwelch4652]

Here are some adaptations that we should be considering. Changing our work/living cycle to nocturnal so we are not moving about outside in the highest heat. Moving our populations to higher ground. Generally, higher elevations are cooler. Moving our living and sleeping spaces underground to allow the ground temperature to moderate heat and reduce energy consumption for cooling.

[@ivandafoe5451]

The problems will only continue to get worse as we attempt to adapt to these high temperatures. We have to stop adding to the problems as the first priority.

[@kimwelch4652]

@@ivandafoe5451 Agreed, but technically that's an adaptation to a limited energy zero fossil fuels lifestyle with much less global trade.

[@bonniepoole1095]

Some experts believe that the planet can sustainably support 3 to 4 billion people; we currently have 8.3 billion. So, we need to 'lose' at least 4.3 billion. Overshoot of resources is another environmental problem- - what would we do with no new metals, no wood, no clean water? We all need to stop buying stuff! Every dollar we spend contributes to the problem- - -we can't avoid the problem but we can slow it so we have more time to adapt.

[@chinookvalley]

Schweaty balls. My favorite. SNL thanks for the laughs from so long ago. Helping me get through these bizarre days. Wildlife can't utilize a/c nor can their habitat. It's all about people? We caused this nightmare and we can't help the suffering.

[@ntucson669]

Just like all the other interviewers she "pivots" away from his warnings to talk about optimism -- Don't Look Up!

[@roberthornack1692]

Don't think we're going to be here for a very long time. Grains, just one of thosr abundant foods that support growing civilizations, (more people creates more heat, ) don't do very well in continuing drought or flood conditions, (more evapoation,) I'll give us till 2030 & that's being conservative!

[@KatsCorner]

Agreed

[@lucyflanagan3628]

Each species has a temperature range they evolved to match. This range is fixed. It’s their environmental niche that their species is equipped to deal with. When the environment changes non-human animals cant adapt beyond their range. There are some things they can do to adjust but those strategies are limited. We humans have our own range, supplemented by our technology and our knowledge. We can flip on the AC- those of us fortunate enough to have AC. But we humans forget how much we owe to the plants and the animals that feed on the plants for our very existence. All life is interconnected and we are facing mass extinction of the living web around us. I expect it to implode like a house of cards, accelerating to the point that even we humans, the dominant species, wont be able to figure out a way to save ourselves in time. There is one solution. It’s so quick and simple and doesnt require anyone to die. We can stop having babies.

[@donnavorce8856]

Everything that can move has become a climate migrant; mosquitoes, antelope, and everything else mobile. Plants in place are screwed but some seeds will be distributed north and grow. People are pretty screwed as well because migration has been made impossible by overpopulation and politics.

[@DrSmooth2000]

​@@donnavorce8856plants are moving from tropics poleward at about 70% rate of climate so not being dusted at least Per James Cook Uni 2014

[@chow-chihuang4903]

Those who say we can just flip on the AC forget that the electronics, motors (especially those that rely on permanent magnets), and the electrical grid also have upper operating temperature limits. If the grid fails, most of those systems won’t work. Even if the grid doesn’t fail, there are electronic components that start to fail around 140F, and there are places that have come very close to that.

[@richdiana3663]

There's no stopping it now, and isn't that the American way?

[@laekrits]

death penalty for conspicuous waste (o:

[@Jedizen07]

It’s not just climate change we need to worry about. Now after the events of 9/11 and the response to Katrina, voters have to be more concerned with who they vote in, especially candidates who have little to none emergency response experience. As climate change becomes an even greater threat to reckon with, we have to change the people we vote in office that could handle any kind of emergency. Even history, throughout the 80s/90s showed more voters were becoming less concerned with environmental hazards ( hence why we have plenty of deniers ). Sadly, most voters don’t think about that when it comes to voting. Now, we have no choice. I don't see a list of other planets for us to move to. So, if we want to change things, we have to overhaul the changes politically as well.

[@everforward8651]

Who scripted that for you?

[@Jedizen07]

@@everforward8651 History.

[@everforward8651]

@@Jedizen07I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. So, I'm going to assume that you did a lot of research, and weren't paid by the Post to push a certain narrative while fear-mongering (although, to be sure, I believe that there's indeed been a change in the climate, but that it's been mainly part of a natural cycle which has been influenced to a small degree by human beings.) I'd like to know which books and documents you consulted, because I feel the need to be as fully informed on this subject as one can be.

[@joeking1019]

How is it becoming an even greater threat? why are you 'threatened at all? can't you cope with changes in the weather? are you a psychiatric nut job?

[@stevefitt9538]

About 6 weeks ago I decided that what we need t o do is to go to a WWII style rationing program. We will not so, we are doomed. The best I can say is that some life somewhere will still be here a million years from now. We will not kill all life. I'm' thinking of the life in the deep oceans. IIRC, I saw a report many years ago that life exists in the cracks in rocks a mile down. It grows very slowly. So, some life somewhere will survive. But, we are doomed for sure becaause we will not act for at least 4 years and likely 10 years, if ever.

[@donnavorce8856]

Got a copy. Read it. It's a sobering expose of the reality of heat waves hitting all over as we watch this post. Some rich producer really ought to make a series featuring each chapter as an episode. Hey Hollywood? Anyone listening here?

[@christianfaust5141]

It's unfortunately really no surprise

[@tomnohmy1273]

Washington post has a climate editor. Lol

[@bradleywinter2803]

Oregon is different, that's wet heat, that's dangerous

[@technodemic6258]

Oregon is dangerous anyway - thanks to Antifa.

[@janklaas6885]

21:10

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

Stopping development of new fossil fuel sources certainly looks realistic to do, immediately. I just don't see why this would not be a net positive.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

It's not net positive because most everyone believes ESG/Green Energy will save us. FOOLS will believe what they want to happen. This has nothing to do with reality! Clearly, FFs are a Catch22. Fossil fuels are both good and bad. They will keep humanity ALIVE longer - no doubt about it. More disturbing is that 😳 our economy can not run without fossil fuels. Books do not sell from telling TRUTH. Especially when the majority can not face the reality of death. Sorry, I'm a realist! ❤ Go ahead - hate me. Just watch to see if my judgment is true 👍 or false. I've already spent 3 years 😳 Mourning and Greiving. I'm psychologically prepared. ❤

[@jackrice2770]

Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day! ("It's made from people!")

[@oneandatwoanda]

Ha ha I remember watching that movie

[@jackrice2770]

@@oneandatwoanda That was a documentary!

[@ChickpeatheTortie]

@@jackrice2770 I suspect if the truth be known its already happening. Human DNA has been turning up in processed meats for years now

[@enriquefuentesortega2251]

What about aerosol masking? Cutting down emissions will in itself cause a catastrofic rise in temperature... hard to be optimistic

[@DrSmooth2000]

Take my chances w clean air

[@joymahiko]

The heat is going to kill ME? What's going to to kill you?

[@bobleclair5665]

More trees 🌲

[@lwells3937]

The only job in Texas that has protection is being a preacher, who never speak up about this governor's cruelty

[@Fabio_Costa_Music]

We have no idea of what the negative or positive feedback loops in our planet are. IF it happens to be that this whole thing IS actually exponential, then it could turn out that our way out of this is direct carbon capture and storage - and the amounts could be HUGE. In this case, the 2 challenges will be: (1) SCALE of C-capture plants and, mainly (2) our ENERGY production capacity (of course renewable) possibly many ORDERS of MAGNITUDE above what we now have. Our survival might depend on that.

[@oscarbecker7843]

The amount of carbon capture we have to scale to is not possible to scale to within the left decades. It is a inefficient technology as well. Therefore the other thing is the amount of energy carbon capture technology will need. Also not possible to scale to with renewables within the remaining decades. We have to cut the emissions immediately to 0, plant as many trees as possible and all of that won't happen, if we are not ready to give up on some. There is no other way. Maybe we'll have a magical ai powered mass production of autonomous mirror satellites we can arrange at the Lagrange point between 🌎 and ☀️ but it is more of a "hope the best, but be prepared for the worst" thing.

[@Fabio_Costa_Music]

@@oscarbecker7843 I totally agree about cutting emissions, but if there are big positive feedback loops, even that could be dwarfed in comparison. And I don't agree that we can't scale up carbon capture and energy (nuclear) , it's all about investing in technology. Remember how technological development also can be exponential, mostly is. But it has to be made top priority, obviously not the case so far in this still delusional world. About trees, we don't really know how precipitation will behave and grasses actually do a much better job at sinking carbon. But both could just not be efficient enough.

[@tanakehoe4495]

Vote Marianne Williamson for president 2024!

[@martiansoon9092]

August 2023, 1,5C warming. Paris lower limit breached, by one month. And this El Niño is just started to build, often second year is the hottest... This is not yet the long climatic temperature, but we are soon getting there. If we add the aerosol effects from dirty burning to current temperatures we get by IPCC: 1,2C+0,6C = 1,8C or by recent Hansen study reaches as high as 2,55C.

[@phelan5387]

The time has passed for doing anything about the rapidly rising temperatures. Humanity is on the threshold of extinction along with most of life on Earth. It has already begun There is no stopping it. It is a mathematical certainly. Brace yourselves folks.

[@Polacerbic]

Relax

[@user-yu4rz6xm3x]

Let it be!! All people stop their jobs from May and put their energy into growing enough produce to feed the population ! And do the same at harvest time.!! The super rich take flight to cooler climes!! Total cooperation is the only answer🙏☘️

[@Bushman9]

The net zero narrative is the most misunderstood part of it all. It’s like inflation; well it was 10% last year but now it’s only 3%, so prices should start going down. No. 10% last year + 3% this year means your food bill will be 13% higher than it was two years ago. That 10% year stays with us forever unless we get into a deflationary situation… and goodbye jobs in that scenario.

[@lucyflanagan3628]

Had not thought of that. Will ponder.

[@roberthornack1692]

At this point, zero emissions will only increase heating, reducing the cooling affect of atmospheric aerosals!

[@ivandafoe5451]

Whatever you are referring to hasn't been working well enough to save us so far.

[@Truefitbc]

Climate change is a mystery

[@kevinmorris3649]

back to the caves

[@donnavorce8856]

One more time. Maybe the survivors will get it right this time . . .

[@oneandatwoanda]

God created man to have dominion over the Earth, and all of its beasts. The oil we draw from underground is our God-given gift praise the Lord. I am being facetious.

[@donnavorce8856]

You forgot the best part: their little imaginary sky being is going to come here and make everything better. This nutter mindset is the reason we're all screwed.

[@rfleming7883]

Nearly everyone realizes the 'climate' problem we face is due to the success of the human race. The solution - reduce the population? Of course not, but the industrial revolution which began 250 years ago has allowed the population to increase at an incredible rate. Just look at any graph showing world wide population growth. From virtually flat a 300 years ago, to the unbelieveable level now. Of course, everyone wanted and got warmth, plentiful food, and the ability to get around. Solutions? still waiting to hear.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

There are multiple initiatives and policies around the world to change from fossil fuels to clean energies, to capture carbon from the air, etc. Just Google it. The growth of the population is not due to the Industrial Revolution and its fossil fuel use, exclusively. Great advances in medicine and agriculture were made in those times. People don't eat trains, vaccines and antiseptics for surgery are not made from steamboats. Stopping from using fossil fuels is not impossible, we are technologically advanced enough as to do it. Political decisions are necessary, and your vote to choose scientifically literate representatives, senators, governors and presidents is much needed. Take a few friends with you next election.

[@judilutz-woods3825]

Siesta. Climate crisis is starting to rage. VOTE

[@Jc-ms5vv]

If your vote counted they wouldn’t let you vote

[@martiansoon9092]

BS. Net zero means emissions that keeps on rising temperature. Also already happening changes in the nature will keep on rising temperatures decades after we go to TRUE zero. Ie. Losing albedo in glaciers and snowy areas, is going to heat up the planet. We have emissions in the atmosphere that are not coming down in days, but in some cases in thousands of years. Oceans keeps warming decades after we stop emissions. It is estimated in science papers, that temperature keeps rising at least 40 years after we stop emissions. But even that remark is useless, because we are still rising record emissions. This year had record on oil demand. G20 did not even mention coal in their last meeting papers. Next COP is in oil producing country led by oil company CEO. And then they head to Australia, that just opened worlds largest coal mine. And in USA republican party is doing ANYTHING to keep fossil burning floating.

[@martiansoon9092]

Also arctic permafrost thawing with large methane emissions will continue well after we stop emissions, just because of the heat that is in our atmosphere. You may argue that the MAIN emissions will be shut down and the MAIN cause of the temperature rise is shut down, when we stop emissions. And that's TRUE zero, net zero allows way too high emissions and as a term it is extremely MISLEADING.

[@evelyngott2056]

This author needs to work on his research. It has been estimated that about 5.1 million excess deaths per year are associated with temperatures. Of those, 4.6 million are deaths from cold temperatures, and 500,000 are deaths from hot temperatures.

[@donnavorce8856]

Sources please?

[@christinearmington]

The National Weather Service and NOAA both say heat kills more than cold.

[@karlwheatley1244]

"Of those, 4.6 million are deaths from cold temperatures, and 500,000 are deaths from hot temperatures." That's a statistic that confuses many people. Rapid man-made global warming and climate disruption will kill more and more people in a wide variety of ways, not just through direct heat. Think increasing crop failures due to heat waves and extreme precipitation events and loss of the coral reefs and all the marine life they support. Think loss of mountain glaciers whose regular meltwater had been providing drinking water and irrigation water for 2 billion people, but they're disappearing and killing people as they go with extreme flooding and even dam failures. Think dozens of diseases who range has spread due to global warming. Think of the breakdown of power grids and government functioning and hundreds of millions of climate refugees. You have to do systems thinking and think about all the ripple effects things cause to understand how the world works. Rapid and sustained global temperature changes, is sustained long enough, cause mass extinctions of life.

[@bradleywinter2803]

It's not the heat, it's the humidity +wet bulb+ Texas is a good choice +dry heat+ better for some health issues too

[@vincenteng218]

Dry heat will kill you too when you don‘t have enough water to stay hydrated. And in dry heat you don‘t feel the sweat because it evaporates immediately but your body is losing water because it is still trying to cool the body.

[@ivandafoe5451]

Playing musical chairs by constantly moving won't solve a damn thing.

[@kimweaver1252]

It's getting more humid in Tehasss, too.

[@isralolssen8760]

How about the black RAM, or whatever you call those piece of shit trucks they drive over there 🎉

[@makaracomeau160]

Tell them to move to Taos NM. Temps 85* to 92* this month. Tenps in 70',s at night. Humidity low, mosquitoes haven't seen one!!! Last3 winters mild with dry weather year round. However LaNino will brind snow to the lower elecations. Mtn snow has rivers runing and Elephant Butte has greatly replaced for 1st time in years ❤ Santa Fe weather very different... congested, expensive, and were only 2hours north. We do have a ski basin, ice skating rink i heard, boating, hiking, biking ,ballooning,& the fine arts seen as nice as SFe.. plus we have a farmers market on the square plus trash/treasures show on Saturday's please check it hour . My fav hangout soot is the Expresso Bar @Taos Mtn Inn right on Paseo Del Pueblo Sur . Peeks Cof served.❤❤❤,

[@rudolfrojas]

Maybe you should not tell them to move to Taos as they used to say don't Californicate NM. Taos infrastructure and roads are already near capacity not to mention housing.

[@paulheydarian1281]

​​​​​@@rudolfrojas She seems like a nice old lady, but she ain't too bright. It's really more important than ever before to keep the bi-coastal riffraff away from the nicer areas of the interior. Most Californians are no better than locusts, they destroy wherever they go.

[@ivandafoe5451]

You can't be serious. "Them" are hundreds of millions of people that would totally destroy these tiny oases of cooler weather.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Chilean here. Will you welcome me? Or even a fraction of all the people now crowding your Southern border?

[@paulheydarian1281]

@@MariaMartinez-researcher No Maria, please DO NOT come to the U.S. We have more than enough Venezuelans here. Also, keep in mind that life in the U.S. and Canada is very, very expensive. Unless you have some very special high-tech skills, DO NOT Come to North America.

[@Pantherking916]

Mother Nature has been around for over 4 and a half billion years. That's 22,500 times longer than humans. Nature regards humanity as we regard a flea - an annoyance at best, a disease carrier at worst. However, Mother Nature is made to adapt and evolve. She has fed species greater than us and She has starved species greater than us. We were not always here and we will not always be here. Nature will be. Our actions decide our fate but Mother Nature carries on regardless of what we do or don't do. This planet has gone thru cycles as old as time and we have the audacity to think that we are actually capable of changing something so drastically as to threaten Mother Nature herself?! And before the snowflakes start crying, I am not saying for a second that we don't need to clean up our act. Destroying the rainforests is insanity! What other species on the planet pollutes its own air supply or uses it's kitchen, the ocean, as a toilet? Ah, yes, that'd be humans. What other species is SO concerned about the population of every other living creature that we have driven species after species to extinction at a rate faster than Mother Nature would have done if She decided a species needed to go extinct at all? Yet we conveniently ignore our own ballooning population at our peril. The entire human population in 1850, only 173 years ago, was 1.5 billion. In 2021, that number was a jaw dropping 7.8 billion!!! 1.5 billion to 7.8 billion in only 170 years!!!! If anything is threatening Mother Nature's ancient cycles, it's the growing human population. THAT is the single biggest "threat" that needs urgent attention.

[@Chuck-mm2yp]

What are you saying that half the world population has to go?

[@bradleywinter2803]

No, two thirds of the population has to go or the earth has to grow two thirds bigger, either way

[@Chuck-mm2yp]

@@bradleywinter2803 well someone needs to bring the moon to big Texas. Then they can finally build a Walmart on the moon

[@thevindictive6145]

Me thinks non will survive. Not even bacteria.

[@AllergicToMakeBelieve]

While I appreciate the good information, this woman would be better off in a journalism career. As a broadcaster, she's extremely hard to understand. The rapid speech, the vocal fry, and ending each sentence with trailing off to an intelligible level was quite frustrating to listen to.

[@vegasvato55]

I do not suppose the fact that the earth is in an orbit that is continuously changing, speed, distance, and direction, along with the make up of the space the earth is moving through in its orbital path, and solar Flares ... Might have more of an impact the earths climate than cow farts???

[@technodemic6258]

Just a bit :) .

[@UnknownPascal-sc2nk]

Yeah, those stupid physicists. You know, the ones that made your cell phone GPS possible.

[@technodemic6258]

@@UnknownPascal-sc2nk Can't do without your Tik-Tok and sex grooming, I suppose?

[@roberthornack1692]

Time to educate yourself & it's cow burps by the way!

[@KatsCorner]

The oil industry killed us not cow farts.

[@bibideabreu5635]

These 2, don't even mention the number 2 green house gas. Just Hypocrites.

[@izdotcarter]

What's that?

[@christinearmington]

Probably h2o. Water evaporates or falls as rain, while co2 accumulates and stays in the atmosphere for centuries.

[@karlwheatley1244]

"These 2, don't even mention the number 2 green house gas. Just Hypocrites." CO2 levels control water vapor and methane levels.

[@NortheastHobbyfarmer]

Firstly, this guy might be a good author, but he isn't a climate scientist nor is he a physician. Therefore, he is relying on the opinions of others for his statistics. Lies, damn lies and statistics. Second, reliable data has only been recorded for less than 150 years which is a far too short period of time when considering planetary issues. Third, a published, peer reviewed scientist recently stated that projections and conclusions regarding climate are tailored to the wishes of the monetary grant providers and that they are mostly interested in what improves their narrative and thusly their bottom line. Anyone who wants to proselytize on climate should study the whole of the peer reviewed published work including solar forcing, solar degradation of the Earth's magnetic field and the ozone layer, the sunspot's correlation with volcanoes and earthquakes, and the effects of underwater volcanoes adding vast amounts of moisture to the upper atmosphere. Everything is a cycle and we are experiencing changes brought on by time in this cycle. We have possibly sped up the onset of warming, but we are not the major cause of it. We are in the process of bankrupting everyone except the billionaires to implement changes that are just as damaging as the use of fossil fuels. In fact, there is no way we can eliminate fossil fuel use for decades with current technology and resources. The Earth will heal itself within a geographic time scale, we may not be here to see it but some life will survive and eventually thrive. Meanwhile the moneyed class is using the billions in green initiatives to enrich themselves and provide alternatives for their own survival, not ours. I believe I've said enough already, do your own research, use your common sense. Who benefits from war? Who benefits from a complete reworking of the energy sector? Not the common man. Blessings.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Greetings. I have a full playlist about climate change. If you care to take a look, you'll find out that several of your objections have been addressed long time ago, by specialists. Also, a journalist writing a book about any subject in which he isn't a PhD doesn't mean his research is invalid. Have you checked the book's bibliography? How do you know that he just interviewed random people and all his book is nothing more than a collection of "opinions"? Statistics are a branch of Mathematics, a science. The joke about statistics is an opinion; I thought you didn't take opinions as scientific facts. There are multiple metastudies about climate research, demonstrating that the actual climatologists agree that man-made climate change is happening: that's where the famous 97% (and increasing) consensus comes from. The reliable meteorological data is not the point when dealing with climate, because it is weather; the science of Climatology in its branch Paleoclimatology studies the long-term variations: climate. They have figured out that, through millions of years, every time there has been more CO2 in the atmosphere, temperatures went up. The relation between CO2 and heat was proven experimentally in 1856, and repeatedly confirmed ever since. Put more CO2 in the air, the planet will get hotter. We are seeing it. It's cause and effect. That's Chemistry and Physics, not opinions. Who was that *scientist* who published that all scientists are liars willing to write anything for funding? How do you know that he isn't writing whatever he was asked for by the fossil fuel industry funding him? Aren't you aware of the decades-long campaign of misinformation those people have sustained - to keep their profits? How is it that you are willing to believe that nearly every climatologist is willing to lie in their papers for funding, but don't think the same about researchers on bettles, black holes, viruses, migratory birds, or volcanoes? Or do you really think that all scientists are essentially mercenary liars? Conspiracy theory mindset much? Where did you take from that only millionaires will benefit from changing from fossil fuels to clean energy? Have the fossil fuel CEOs made a vow of poverty? Are the farmers from the disappearing islands in the Bay of Bengal, or the natives from the disappearing Isle de Jean Charles millionaires in disguise? How come that putting solar panels in your roof and stop depending both from the international oil trade fluctuations, and from your energy company, doesn't benefit you directly? Ever considered that the people telling you that you are doomed to continue using fossil fuels until securing the destruction of human infrastructure and civilization and the massive extinction of life on the planet have their own agenda, like, keeping you as a docile customer? And someone too indifferent as to vote out the politicians profiting from fossil fuel industry donations? By the way, it is geological time, not geographical one. I dare to say you have not checked all manner of peer reviewed material as you say, but believed someone telling you his version of what peer reviewed material says. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here talking conspiracy theories stuff.

[@NortheastHobbyfarmer]

@@MariaMartinez-researcher I'm not going to do your research for you. I suggest your playlist may be outdated. Some of the most eye opening papers have been published in the last few months. I've known about and mostly agreed with the current view for far longer than it has been the prevalent view. Climate change is real and it is accelerating. However, automobiles are not the major cause of this. EV's won't fix the problem either. In fact, nothing can be done to reverse this cycle. You will either adapt or perish, sad but true. I'll be long gone before that and I take comfort that I won't have to see my grandchildren suffer and die. I am moving towards a net zero lifestyle anyway because I prefer it to this electronic nightmare. You might find it interesting to research what the moneyed class is doing with all their cash. I wish you good luck and many blessings.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

We’re pumping c02 into the atmosphere ten times faster then the petm extinction event, enjoy denial while it last :)

[@karlwheatley1244]

@@NortheastHobbyfarmer "Climate change is real and it is accelerating. However, automobiles are not the major cause of this." There's overwhelming scientific evidence that our emissions caused virtually all recent global warming--our cars, trucks, homes, manufacturing, energy sector, and farming all play roles in those emissions.

[@NortheastHobbyfarmer]

Of course climate change is real. Did you read my post or just regurgitate the popular narrative? So all we have to do is stop eating, not travel anywhere, or buy an overpriced rolling computer built to report our every move which cannot be extinguished when burning built with more environmental costs than a conventional car and be unable to charge the piece of excrement due to our outdated power grid. For your information I have been and environmental activist since the 70's. I have kept up with all of the relevant research and I have found that anthropogenic transport input is roughly 17% of total greenhouse gasses, I don't consider that to be a "major cause". We are likely to see an ice age with the current trajectory of our climate. Realistically there is nothing we can do to alter the oncoming changes but adapt as best we can. Building even more cars, burying trees and killing cattle ain't gonna cut it. I suggest you build yourself a star ship and beat feet. You'll have a better chance of pulling that off than battling mother nature. I'll be gone from this mortal coil soon so I doubt I'll be around to see it all. I wish you luck and Blessings. Do the research!@@karlwheatley1244

[@elizabethescher5445]

This is pure B.S.

[@helenaquin1797]

Contrary Bear

[@rudolfrojas]

Stay safe and cool in ur little bubble!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

it all depends on what "this" is but then a tautological sentence is inherently B.S.

[@bradthorson1782]

So what is your explanation for what's going on? @@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

[@ivandafoe5451]

If you just stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes and hold your breath long enough, it will all go away...for you, at least.