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The world has experienced its hottest day on record, according to meteorologists.

The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F) on Monday, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction.

The figure surpasses the previous record of 16.92C (62.46F) - set back in August 2016.

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[–] rookie@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, warned more records could be broken this year, due to an increase in emissions and El Nino.

Okay, I know this isn't the point of the article, but this guy's name is cool as hell and would fit perfectly as the leader of a band of survivors once the climate change apocalypse actually hits.

Now, that said, I would prefer that it didn't. Every other form of existential dread I can rationalize away, but this feels inexorable.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (20 children)

So if this milestone is a death sentence, does that mean it’s time to give up?

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (23 children)

These temperatures will kill people. They will cause crop failures. The death, hunger, and hardship will cause people to leave their homes to come to more habitable regions.

But there will still be habitable regions for generations still to come. A lot has been lost, and more will be before we fix what we broke, but plenty can still be saved as long as we don't just give up

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[–] SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Cleetus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I am a little thankful to hear that the previous record was set in 2016 and not 2022.

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[–] macisr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a new record for coldest or hottest day like every year, damn.

[–] justhach@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Where I live, if you factor in windchill and humidex, we have an ~80°C swing in tenperature. Its crazy.

Not only do I live where the air hurts my face, but now I got to deal with being constantly sweaty for ~3 months of the year.

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

You know, I'd never thought of it that way, but same. I had to buy an AC for the first time a couple years ago.

What gets me is that like, where I live, we used to wonder if we'd be seeing a white Halloween. Now we're lucky for a white Christmas.

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[–] otter_bee@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

was fucking hot in western WA yesterday, my first year gardening and have had some plants bolt :(

edit: I shouldn't have used the term bolt cause even I didn't know what that meant before this season, it just means that a lot of my plants flowered due to stress from the heat, which often makes things like kale bitter, or spinach tough. In my case it was bok choy, and just now cilantro, but that was probably more from me planting late.

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[–] omni@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heat index of 112F where I am at. FML.

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