In June 2021, Lytton in BC, Canada hitting 49.6°C proved that “extreme heat events do not only happen in the tropics.”
So, “imagine. It’s 2035. It’s June. You’ve seen ‘everyone dies’ events, covering thousands of square kilometres, happening in other parts of the world already. Now the weather forecast tells you that there’s a 30% probability of an ‘everyone dies’ event in the area where you live in the next ten days.
What do you do?”
https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/116656311446853136
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