“Hottest month on record” is a massive understatement when there have been 24 consecutive days hotter than any recorded before July 3 this year.
Seriously. Climate change is the most useless term, it doesn’t have the necessary oomph. Call it climate destruction.
I think The Guardian has committed a few years ago to call it the ‘climate crisis’ (they also have a dedicated category page with the title). But yeah, language matters. I tend to use climate catastrophe.
I like the name climate crisis. It’s formal sounding but conveys the direness of the situation much better than climate change.
I’m with you, I’ve started referring to it with this name. It’s apt, we’re in a current crisis not a situation that we will only see effects from generations from now. I talk to a lot of people who seem to think this is a next generation problem, even the current young generation.
This is why republicans pushed it as the used term in the bush era.
Era of global boiling sounds very reassuring. When are our policy makers going to actually start acting?
I don’t think we will see much in serious action until lots of people start to die and even then some will still drag their feet.
I really hope this isn’t the case but I have a feeling you might be right. Why don’t we act preemptively instead of firefight (literally in this case) after the fact.
When we’re at ‘vaporization’ I guess
When I look at the weather app on my phone and it tells me of an “excessive heat warning”…. Yeah.
This summer so far I’ve had either a non stop smoke warning or a non stop heat warning. Or both!
But that’s like everyday.
Shit we had an excessive heat warning in the middle of winter last year… It was like 90 fucking degrees. 2 weeks later we had snow!
That’s climate change for you. The extremes become more extreme, the weather can fluctuate near daily, and you can have events exactly like you described.
Don’t look up.
