India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark

SilverElfin

They hit 119 degrees in freedom units, for those in the US

AlfieJones

In the UK we don’t get temperatures like this, but it doesn’t take much heat before parts of the country start feeling completely unprepared for it

msy

I wonder what the wet bulb temperature is, it feels like the day when we have our first true mass casualty event (as opposed to the longer, slower crisies caused by say european heatwaves in the last decade) caused by the climate crisis is getting close.

hendler

There's some interesting, sad, but hopeful science fiction about where this is headed. Ministry for the Future: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo... Excerpt here: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-ministry-for-the-futur...