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Extreme heat cancels climate change event on adapting to extreme heat (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 9 hours ago by felixwhynot@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 37 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

If it makes anyone feel better, the Heat Death of the Universe will solve this issue permanently.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I can't wait to experience that billions of year in the future.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You are off by many orders of magnitude.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

A trillion can still be counted in billions. Same as all the other orders of magnitude above that. 👍

[–] ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

just use decimals for the ones below

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

We're talking about big enough numbers to whip out the scientific notation. Even counted in billions.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That number is way too big for this monkey brain to understand.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

For a little context, saying our sun is seconds from dying is about as accurate as saying the universe will undergo heat death in billions of years (taking heat death to be no more active stars left in the universe).

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Comparing orders of magnitude or comparing proportion?

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Aren't we currently looking at a cold death? As in, don't worry, this heat issue will solve itself?