This weekend they are predicting record heat for my lovely corner of the Pacific Northwest. The cool, green, WET Pacific Northwest. In JUNE. In FUCKING June. It gets a bit cool here, and gray, normally. We have a standing joke that gets trotted out every year (until now) that this month is called "June-uary" because we are hoping for bright sunshine and temps up in the low 70s but we just get more gray gray gray and damp damp damp. Ha ha. June-uary.
They're predicting highs in the 90s. Records are predicted like "hottest June 27 on record" and maybe "hottest date in June on record" and maybe hottest day EVER recorded for lush, green, wet PNW. In June. June-uary.
And maybe this is a one off, maybe one little jolt and then it's back to cool, green, and shady. Ha ha, that one is a joke, could you tell? Because if it's like that in June, when we get a heat wave in July we are fucked. And for the past 3 years or so, our damp gray summers have been capped off with fire season, where the smoke from all the burning north west (and southwest) hangs over our heads in a different shade of gray, a thick pall that burns our eyes and makes us cough.
I've been whistling past the graveyard on climate change for a while now. Ha ha, probably won't totally change society as we know it in MY lifetime. Ha ha. I hope my kids get through before the shitrain. Ha ha. Kinda glad I'm probably not likely to have grand kids. Ha ha. Ha ha.
It's unusually cool and wet here in south-central Texas. We're usually at 100+ by now, but we've been in the mid-90s and we're forecasted another week of rain and temps in the 80s. I'm sorry to hear about your heat wave! Y'all don't have A/C everywhere up there, right?
I'm an hour further north, they're not predicting quite such absurdities here, although I have seen some alarmist "it's going to be 120" sorts of things.
Mr. Lago, of course, doesn't want to see less profitable legislation passed, he wants to see everybody making personal sacrifices. Especially we liberals.
The rich have never been the last to die during the collapse of a civilization. Usually, they are found with their throats slit and their servants and gold missing.
There will come a time soon when the security forces realize that they will no longer be paid, the computer drives on which their records and salaries are kept no longer work. Some of them will have cared for the families they have lost. They will realize that their small band, their firearms, and the properties they protect are all they have left of any value. Their employers will have become merely an irritating hindrance to further survival.
I thought the republican plan for climate change was stack poor people and immigrants up like a seawall in front of rich people's beach houses (offer not valid anywhere on west coast or east coast north of DC because those rich people aren't nice enough to us)
"I rolled coal all the way here, and boy are my lungs tired."
This weekend they are predicting record heat for my lovely corner of the Pacific Northwest. The cool, green, WET Pacific Northwest. In JUNE. In FUCKING June. It gets a bit cool here, and gray, normally. We have a standing joke that gets trotted out every year (until now) that this month is called "June-uary" because we are hoping for bright sunshine and temps up in the low 70s but we just get more gray gray gray and damp damp damp. Ha ha. June-uary.
They're predicting highs in the 90s. Records are predicted like "hottest June 27 on record" and maybe "hottest date in June on record" and maybe hottest day EVER recorded for lush, green, wet PNW. In June. June-uary.
And maybe this is a one off, maybe one little jolt and then it's back to cool, green, and shady. Ha ha, that one is a joke, could you tell? Because if it's like that in June, when we get a heat wave in July we are fucked. And for the past 3 years or so, our damp gray summers have been capped off with fire season, where the smoke from all the burning north west (and southwest) hangs over our heads in a different shade of gray, a thick pall that burns our eyes and makes us cough.
I've been whistling past the graveyard on climate change for a while now. Ha ha, probably won't totally change society as we know it in MY lifetime. Ha ha. I hope my kids get through before the shitrain. Ha ha. Kinda glad I'm probably not likely to have grand kids. Ha ha. Ha ha.
Climate change. It's here. We're living it.
We're fucked.
my guess is that they would not be willing, but that would be nice
It's unusually cool and wet here in south-central Texas. We're usually at 100+ by now, but we've been in the mid-90s and we're forecasted another week of rain and temps in the 80s. I'm sorry to hear about your heat wave! Y'all don't have A/C everywhere up there, right?
Hahaha. No. No A/C here.
They are predicting 107 in SEATTLE on Monday.
I'm an hour further north, they're not predicting quite such absurdities here, although I have seen some alarmist "it's going to be 120" sorts of things.
*sigh*
This is too silly and evil for me to have thought of, so of course they will.
Goodness, I hope y'all are able to stay safe and cool.
So, the "Murder on the Orient Express" scenario?
Mr. Lago, of course, doesn't want to see less profitable legislation passed, he wants to see everybody making personal sacrifices. Especially we liberals.
Fuck up, mother ponies!
Thanks, it'll be fine for this weekend. I'm more concerned about what it means for the big picture.
The rich have never been the last to die during the collapse of a civilization. Usually, they are found with their throats slit and their servants and gold missing.
There will come a time soon when the security forces realize that they will no longer be paid, the computer drives on which their records and salaries are kept no longer work. Some of them will have cared for the families they have lost. They will realize that their small band, their firearms, and the properties they protect are all they have left of any value. Their employers will have become merely an irritating hindrance to further survival.
I thought the republican plan for climate change was stack poor people and immigrants up like a seawall in front of rich people's beach houses (offer not valid anywhere on west coast or east coast north of DC because those rich people aren't nice enough to us)
Yeah, definitely a big red flag. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that fire season isn't outrageous this year.