BREAKING NEWS: Deadly Heat Wave - A real national emergency Trump fails to declare

[Jeffersons Ghost]

More than 185 million people are under watches and warnings as the heat wave begins to reach peak temperatures
Updated 9:49 AM ET, Fri July 19, 2019

(CNN) - Peak temperatures from a potentially deadly heat wave are expected to begin Friday, and major US cities are taking special measures to prepare -- with New York City declaring an emergency. About 185 million people are under a heat watch, warning or advisory as of Friday morning.

Heat waves are made worse by climate crisis.

June of this year was the hottest June on record for the world, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It isn't clear yet how July will fair in terms of breaking records, but temperatures for this week are high.

Experts say the heat wave is only made worse by the ongoing threat of climate change. According to last year's National Climate Assessment, the number of hot days in the US is increasing.

Heat waves have also increased in frequency, rising from an average of two per year to six per year in the last five decades. The threat is especially pronounced in the Northeast, where "the frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves is expected to increase" due to the climate crisis. https://m.cnn.com/en/article/h_2f959c72e0d911b7e3625bec051d6847

What happens when parts of South Asia become unlivable? The climate crisis is already displacing millions
by James Griffiths, CNN
Updated 2:15 AM ET, Wed July 17, 2019

(CNN) - Almost six million people are under threat from rising flood waters across South Asia, where hundreds of thousands of people have already been displaced as a result of heavy monsoon rains.

This is the sharp edge of the climate crisis. What seems an urgent but still future problem for many developed countries is already killing people in parts of Asia, and a new refugee crisis, far worse than that which has hit Europe in recent years, is brewing.

The flooding comes as India was still reeling from a weeks-long water crisis amid heavy droughts and heatwaves across the country which killed at least 137 people. Experts said the country has five years to address severe water shortages, caused by steadily depleting groundwater supplies, or over 100 million people will left be without ready access to water.

In Afghanistan, drought has devastated traditional farming areas, forcing millions of people to move or face starvation, while in Bangladesh, heavy monsoon flooding has marooned entire communities and cut-off vital roads. Especially at risk are the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in fragile, makeshift camps along the country's border with Myanmar.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/asia/india-nepal-flooding-climate-refugees-intl-hnk/index.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. They've been predicting this for a while now...

Best wishes to all those in the path of this heat wave.

[In_The_Wind]

2. It will feel like 110 in New Paltz, NY tomorrow.

[Iliyah]

3. Very 1st . . .

Lastly, t-rump and the Republican don 't care.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. They claim to care about undocumented refugees entering the USA:

Climate refugees
People affected by climate change will not stay put as their children drown or die of heat stroke or thirst. The Norwegian Refugee Council estimates that 26 million people are displaced by disasters such as floods and storms every year, or one person every second. By 2045, according to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, some 135 million people could be displaced as a result of land and soil degradation.

According to government documents published by the ABC this week, Australia alone may face up to 100 million climate refugees in the coming years, as large parts of the Indo-Pacific is hit by rising sea levels and extreme weather.

Making matters worse, the UN's Refugee Convention currently does not recognize those fleeing climate change as entitled to protection by international law. This could enable countries to refuse to offer sanctuary, or regard those entering the country as illegal immigrants.

South Asia is already suffering as a result of climate change, a crisis caused by the developed world's consumption patterns and fossil fuel-driven capitalism. The effects of that crisis will not remain confined to the region for long, however, nor will the people already dealing with the sharp end of it.

Called "the lungs of the Earth" because of oxygen produced by a massive amount of plant-life, rainforests in South America are rapidly vanishing.

Since 1978 over 750,000 square kilometers (289,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana. Why is Earth's largest rainforest being destroyed?

For most of human history, deforestation in the Amazon was primarily the product of subsistence farmers who cut down trees to produce crops for their families and local consumption. But in the later part of the 20th century, that began to change, with an increasing proportion of deforestation driven by industrial activities and large-scale agriculture. By the 2000s more than three-quarters of forest clearing in the Amazon was for cattle-ranching.

The result of this shift is forests in the Amazon were cleared faster than ever before in the late 1970s through the mid 2000s. Vast areas of rainforest were felled for cattle pasture and soy farms, drowned for dams, dug up for minerals, and bulldozed for towns and colonization projects. At the same time, the proliferation of roads opened previously inaccessible forests to settlement by poor farmers, illegal logging, and land speculators.

[malaise]

4. He's facing his own heat wave

Fire deh a muss muss tail
ím tink a cool breeze yah - oh gosh!
Translation
When they're burning cane fields and the fire moves with speed rats think the fire is a cool breeze until it's too late.

[bdamomma]

6. the only person

I wish suffers from this is the squatter on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Would he take that jacket off???

[William769]

7. Here in S.W. Florida the heat index has been between 105 to 110 for awhile now.

Grant you it gets hot in Florida in the summertime but not like this.

Will be at Busch Gardens tomorrow & Sunday and am worried over the heat. I will have to be careful.

[CrispyQ]

8. Wait until people in places like TX, AZ, & NM start moving north.

What will rwnj think of fellow citizens immigrating north, taking jobs, houses/apartments. ???