2y ago

Heat Index in Brazil Hits 137F (58.5C)

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It's official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There's already reports of power outages. People can't work. They can't run errands. They can barely sleep. It's not even summer there yet.

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2y ago

Heat Index in Brazil Hits 137F (58.5C)

www.okdoomer.io /heat-index-in-brazil-hits-137f/

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They actually said this would happen.
And yet, we go directly to our graves.
It seems we want to be dead.
- It's a prisoner's dilemma; you'll be dead even faster if you're the first to fight back.
- I was talking about scientists saying that climate change will heat up the planet.
  Scientists told us long ago that we need to cut fossil fuels or the planet would heat up. And now it has.
Yeah, let's burn some more rain forest and see whether it helps.
- It definitely doesn't help but it's not the reason either
  
  That graph has nothing to do with sequester rates, which is what forests are about.
  Forests are a big part of the issue and we need to preserve them.
  
  What is extremely sad is that Brazil has relatively very low emission and consumption rates
  The rich dicks around, the poor pays the price
  
  Per capital sucks for these stats but the rainforest isn’t about contributing CO2 it’s about capturing it
  
  Bloody Africa, not providing any data.
- Burn forest, plant fields, too hot for fields, .. ., no profits!
World News
Brazil
Still uses F first
Wat
- Royal Society fellow Daniel Fahrenheit consents to the use of his preluding temperature scale.
- Fucking Murika making shit harder for everyone
  
  Yeah like I don't know how many swimming pools worth of heat it is
What the fuck? I didn’t realize Brazil was going full oven mode
- They have clearly linked their source as BBC. Also, pretty much all major publications have reported on it. Here's a report by AP: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-heat-wave-climate-environment-wildfires-1e4714fb2c6566120c13cf4e2b657f7d
  
  Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave.
  Rio de Janeiro recorded 42.5C on Sunday - a record for November - and high humidity on Tuesday meant that it felt like 58.5C, municipal authorities said.
  More than a hundred million people have been affected by the heat, which is expected to last until at least Friday.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67422663?ref=okdoomer.io
  
  We definitely are! It's been a week since I got some sleep ... It's been 37°C to 40°C every day in my city and most people don't even have AC... I don't..
  
  Which is also already deadly.
That can be as low as 34C, with 90% humidity. I'm not trying to make it less of a problem, just trying to tune the clickbait down from 11.
Fuck humidity though. I can't stand it.
- It was 42.5 degrees.
  
  Ok, 42.5 I wouldn't personally survive in any humidity. My suffering season starts when it hits 28 outside.
- Coming from a place that sees -40c to +40c almost every year, I can confirm this is not clickbait
  Shit I worked with a guy from Oklahoma and mid August we were working near Toronto (Ontario) and he couldn't take the heat and it was only 30 without the humidity.
  That shit ain't no joke
- As someone who feels 34 is as hot as I can handle it and it only qualifies if there is a fuckton of humidity Ill take the bait.
All hail market capitalism!
Turns out muh free market IS the solution to all human crises.
Can't have human crises without humans, after all.
- Thanks for the comment. It said everything I think and I won't have to rewrite the same thing.
- When India/China run out of water from the mountains it is going to be really fun
Human blood should start cooking at 60°C if I remember well.
How the fuck did this article go from heat in Brazil to long covid research without any fucking bridge 🥲
I mean, I somewhat agree with the points its making and I'm heavily doubting the validity. When someone is not willing to further their own confirmation bias you really need to start asking questions.
Seems like a load of bullshit. This is the only article about it, and it's from... okdoomer.io?
Lol. Where are the mods?
Oh. This is the smaller world news. My bad.
- BBC from two days ago
- Also on the shittiest large instance, lemmy.ml
Anyone read Ministry of the Future
It's November tho...Does Brazil not have a winter?
- Southern Hemisphere. It's late spring there.
- A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.
  But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.
  
  Hmm, interesting 🤔
- Winter in Brazil if from june to september, but honestly though it feels like there is one or two weeks of cold and the rest is just as hot as any day. I remember a year where I didn't wear long sleeved shirts or coats at all.

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