Portland, Oregon hit 114°F (45.5°C) Today.
If the death toll in the Pacific Northwest from high temperatures over this weekend is not in the thousands, I would be very surprised.
Even for houses with air-conditioning, this is likely to be more heat than they could handle:
Portland again reached a new record temperature late Sunday afternoon, hitting 112 degrees and breaking the previous records set earlier Sunday and Saturday, the National Weather Service announced on Twitter.
The high temperature for Portland International Airport reached 108 degrees Saturday, surpassing the city’s all-time record of 107, first set in 1965. By 2:20 p.m. Sunday afternoon, Portland had surpassed that record by three degrees. The record now stands at 112 as of 5 p.m. Sunday.
Portland normally has a handful of 90°F+ days a year.
In the 4 years that I lived in Portland, it never broke 100°F. (Update, Checked the record, I was wrong. From August 1976 through August 1980, there were 10 100°F+ days)
Obviously, this is weather, and not climate, but it is clearly anthropogenic climate change driven weather.
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I commend you for an ability to make statements without the constraints of logic: "Obviously, this is weather, and not climate, but it is clearly anthropogenic climate change driven weather."
You can do better than that.
In Canada it reached 122° over the weekend. Hundreds died. About half of the people there don't even have air conditioning, because it wasn't needed.
For decades I've been warning about climate change. Even relatively recently, when I told people that we'd be seeing temperatures of 120°-plus, people laughed at me or told me I was crazy.
122°. In Canada. Where do I go to say "I told you so"?. And just curious, how will the companies and oligarchs who were the primary drivers of climate change and the primary profiteers of it make recompense when their greed has made us extinct?
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