Is it hot enough for you yet?

Is it hot enough for you yet?
David Slack
05:00, Jan 12 2020 (New Zealand)
https://www.stuff.co.nz

... Why in the face of undeniable truth, do people still grasp at every other possible argument, up to and including complete falsehoods about greens impeding hazard reductions?

Is it that the truth is just too inconvenient? That certainly seems the most likely explanation for the abundance of media coverage that serves to protect and preserve the establishment and the status quo. If you have a sweet number going, well no big surprise if you resist anything that might put it at risk. Is that what the Murdoch media is up to? Does he really believe that's acceptable? Digger please.

...To help explain the wall of flames across their nation, the ABC has made a web page to lay out the future in exceptionally clear graphic form...Here's the executive summary: the hotter it gets, the worse things are. And it will not be good. It will be awful. Horrible. Deadly.

In the end those bars come down to something really simple: if nothing changes it will be really really hot, a whole lot of the time...By the time a child born today is 20, they say, what we presently think of as extreme would by then considered a mild summer. By their 50th birthday, three quarters of humanity would be facing at least 20 days a year of deadly heat and humidity.

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/118708408/is-it-hot-enough-for-you-yet