Crimes of the hot.
All the way back in December, in the middle of a long hot week, I made the prediction that we'd see another one before the summer was out. Well, I was half right. We're definitely seeing another heatwave now - but it's autumn, not summer.
The weather has the capacity to frighten me more than almost anything else in this world - particularly when it is doing unseasonal or extreme things that can only be attributed to global warming. Sure, sometimes it's hot in March. But it's never above 35ºC for more than a week. Poor Adelaide haven't had a day below 38ºC for 10 days! It makes me feel like it's never going to cool down - that it'll just keep getting hotter and hotter until we hit 50ºC, or 60ºC, or 200ºC and then we all die.
The rational part of my brain knows that I'm being overly anxious, and that it's going to cool down sometime - it won't still be like this in a month. But the rational part of my brain knows that unless we manage to reverse the effects of global warming, the problem is only going to get worse. And one day, sometime in the future, I will turn on the weather report to see a big fat 50 staring back at me.
The weather has the capacity to frighten me more than almost anything else in this world - particularly when it is doing unseasonal or extreme things that can only be attributed to global warming. Sure, sometimes it's hot in March. But it's never above 35ºC for more than a week. Poor Adelaide haven't had a day below 38ºC for 10 days! It makes me feel like it's never going to cool down - that it'll just keep getting hotter and hotter until we hit 50ºC, or 60ºC, or 200ºC and then we all die.
The rational part of my brain knows that I'm being overly anxious, and that it's going to cool down sometime - it won't still be like this in a month. But the rational part of my brain knows that unless we manage to reverse the effects of global warming, the problem is only going to get worse. And one day, sometime in the future, I will turn on the weather report to see a big fat 50 staring back at me.