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.
What the fuck? I didn’t realize Brazil was going full oven mode
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
I think what matters here is that the humidity makes this a wet bulb or something similar to a wet bulb instead of actually an oven. It’s super doom but it’s a slightly different and honestly worse kind.
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
Yeah, let’s burn some more rain forest and see whether it helps.
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.
Damn, sounds like people should consume less of the soy, meat and minerals produced in that area.
By the way, do you happen to know what happened to the 400 million acres in Europe and 300 million acres in the US that used to be forest in the 1800s?
Human blood should start cooking at 60°C if I remember well.
They actually said this would happen.
And yet, we go directly to our graves.
It seems we want to be dead.
Look to the people who said this. They are calling for revolution, I think we have to start seriously organizing for it this time.
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.
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Still uses F first
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