56 points

49 Celsius to save anyone the conversion

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I know they did it before climate change was a big issue, but you’d still think someone would have said, “maybe we shouldn’t build a city in the middle of a desert?”

Of course, there’s also Phoenix, Salt Lake City, etc…

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Tech ourselves into dead ends and then wonder how it happened.

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Multiple Southwestern cultures thrived and then died out due to climate change. But who’d ask a pesky Injun whether or not that was a good place to build a city?

https://www.sciencealert.com/over-and-over-again-rising-social-tension-preceded-collapses-of-pueblo-societies

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Most of them were either nomadic and moved between habitable areas between seasons or lived near oasis and other water sources so not really the desert.

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Apparently the honest answer is “sometimes”

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It was a railroad town at the start, so really just a “once we get through this desert we’ve made it to California.” And after that it was the Boulder Dam worker town, which is where all the casinos came from

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the airport maxed out at 110° in july 1981 so a good 9% hotter measured at the same spot.

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I don’t doubt what you are saying, McCarran isn’t in downtown though. The record setting measurement was made at McCarren so the actual records for that year from the airport are a closer comparison than whatever was happening downtown.

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