cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16243336
Delhi temperature hits 52.9C, shattering India’s national record
I like my human sous vide
Doesn’t India have a shit ton of smog
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was creating a local greenhouse effect
I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures
I’m sure you’re not implying that it’s their own fault, but just for others that might read your comment…
Smog in South East Asia is a complex problem. It’s not as simple as Delhi people doing things to make it smoggy. For example, in a lot of places the smog is from burning the stubble left over from crops. It does drift across international borders, so the people living with it often are not culpable in any way.
Additionally, it tends to be seasonal, sort of November to February.
Suffice to say the current temperature spikes are unlikely to be caused by smog and even if they were it’s not necessarily the fault of the good people of Delhi.
The article has been updated. It’s likely that the sensor was faulty.
The highest temperature recorded by other sensors was 49,1 C
That’s still ludicrously hot
Absolutely. I die inside at 30.
30 isn’t so bad as long as it’s not really humid out.
Depends on what you are used to and if the infrastructure where you live is built with it in mind.
Here, AC in residential buildings is fairly rare. It’s absolutely a luxury that few have.
Climate change isn’t real, it’s all a conspiracy of pizza parlors led by Obama, or that other woman, vote trump!
Please understand the very implied /s here…
Holy hell!
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Not quite.
Study finds lower scam incidents worldwide in coincidence with the climate event.
Shock the most populous country on earth is known for having lots of scammers.
What about the 1.3B+ that ain’t scammers?
You do realise how cynical this is no? We are dying of the consequences of global warming to which the global South has contributed the least to, yet will suffer the most and can’t afford to survive it because of centuries of colonial loot
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People are probably dying from heat exhaustion.
